Posted in Belize, Location-based, Personal, Photography, Scuba, Travel on Nov 8th, 2007 No Comments »
The Blue Hole was, without a doubt, my single most memorable scuba dive to date.
Thankfully, one of our fellow divers, Australian Rohan Ashton (facebook / email: rohanashton(at)yahoo.com.au) was shooting photo and video footage during the dive. I am very grateful for his permission to post some of his footage here, because otherwise, I wouldn’t expect [...]
Posted in Belize, Personal, Photography, Scuba, Travel on Nov 4th, 2007 2 Comments »
This is my beach-front cabana on Caye Caulker in Belize. I sent the photo to Flickr using my wireless connection here - because the really cool guy who runs the cabanas at Ignacio’s offers wireless for free. So don’t believe anyone who tells you Belize doesn’t have the internets. Or gorgeous beachfront cabanas that go [...]
Posted in Egypt, Personal, Photography, Scuba, Travel on Aug 3rd, 2007 1 Comment »
…fish! (And eagle rays! And giant moray eels!)
For the second half of my diving in Dahab and Ras Mohammed, I shot video footage instead of photos. Here’s a 2-minute highlight reel, in YouTube format:
The shots were taken on dives in Egypt, at Dahab and Ras Mohammed (between Shark Reef and Yolanda Reef). They feature [...]
Posted in Personal, Photography, Scuba, Travel on Jul 31st, 2007 1 Comment »
Safe Scuba Diving is about redundancy and routine.
On the redundancy front, not only do you learn backups and workarounds for the unlikely event of an equipment failure, but you also dive with a buddy, making some of your equipment quadrupally redundant.
On the routine front, the gear is assembled “just so.” A “buddy check” before you [...]
Posted in Egypt, Personal, Photography, Scuba, Travel on Jul 28th, 2007 No Comments »
In May 1941, the British Merchant Navy freighter S.S. Thistlegorm left port at Glasgow and headed towards Alexandria, carrying a cargo of motorcycles, trucks, transport trailers, two light tanks, two steam engines, spare parts for airplanes and land vehicles, tires, rubber boots and more. Sailing back up through the Red Sea, with her anchor cast in [...]
Posted in Egypt, Personal, Photography, Scuba, Travel on Jul 26th, 2007 1 Comment »
Arrived back into Dublin yesterday with my lungs intact, a beaming smile and quite a few more dives under my (weight) belt.
Between our time in Dahab, two sojourns to Ras Mohammed for more diving, and a side-trip overland to Petra in Jordan, I’m swimming in memories and photos.
I did promise underwater photos, yes? None of [...]
Posted in Egypt, Personal, Scuba, Travel on Jul 14th, 2007 4 Comments »
The long arm of the intarweb stretches improbably to this beach-side restaurant at the Penguin Dive Center, in Dahab, Egypt, where I just completed my PADI Advanced Open Water Scuba Diver qualification. The course included five dives:
a navigation dive
a deep dive (to 30 meters depth, right around where you start getting “narked” (which causes incapacitating symptoms [...]
