Filed under: Arts and Culture, Scuba Diving, Festivals and Events, Asia, North America, Oceania, China, United States
Time to catch up on some of what you may have missed over the week… Without delay let’s hop right to it!
5. Write for Wend:
Here is your chance to get your travel writing out there and into a new glossy. Don’t save all those adventure tales for the grandkids – write for Wend and share them with us all.
Have you ever wondered what kind of fish you would see while scuba diving in the Pacific Ocean? The reefs in the Pacific Ocean are among the world’s best and…
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A runaway ascent is one of the few frightening things that could happen while scuba diving. If you lose control of you buoyancy during ascent you risk injury. Heres how…
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Filed under: Scuba Diving
With the proliferation of WiFi and cell phones, does anybody mail postcards anymore? I haven’t gotten one in years, so I assume the answer is “no.” If, however, on your next trip you decide that you not only want to send a postcard, but you want to do something unique, why not send a card from an underwater mailbox? Though not common, there are five underwater mailboxes for you to visit:
Fishermen recently caught a shortfin mako shark weighing 1,063 pounds and measuring over 12 feet long in the Gulf of Mexico near Pensacola, Florida. The catch is eligible for the…
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Scuba Diving & Snorkeling For Dummies is an entertaining and easy to understand book by John Newman. The book is great for new divers, those thinking of being certified, and…
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Filed under: Scuba Diving, Oceania, Maldives
I caught news about this cool restaurant in the Maldives at first over at this blog, and I was getting all giddy over the post heralding a “all new undersea restaurant”. Then I realized that the blog post was dated in 2005, so I had to rewrite things.
Filed under: Paddling, Scuba Diving, Surfing
Living in South Florida, we head to the beach a lot. I love relaxing on the sand, in the sun, with a beer on one side, a dog on the other, and a magazine with lots of pictures in front of me. Occasionally, I gaze out at the paragliders and envy them their active lifestyles. Then, I take a long, slow sip of my cold drink and remember why I came to the beach. Yes… relaxing on the sand is wonderful.
My aquarium dive buddy Tim and I were walking back to our cars after “performing” our feeding show at the Seattle Aquarium today. I worked comms and topside support as I had wanged my eye with a strobe cord yesterday (don’t ask), nothing serious, but no diving for a couple of days. Tired and laden with wet gear I suddenly heard a woman in very excited tones say, “Oh look, it’s Diver Jack! Honey, it’s Diver Jack. May we take your picture?” Huh? Me??? What’d I do?? Diver Jack is my stage name. We now do feeding shows, talking to the audience, taking questions and showing off the wolf eels and animals when we feed them. The wolfies are my pets and will sit on my head to eat squid. We use full-face Aga masks and comms with surface-supplied air. As part of that, we wave to the crowd, talk to kids, and get people involved, so that we can impart a conservation message. But I never thought I’d have groupies! My groupie was cute as a bug, pretty in pink, and about 3 years old. Very excited, Mom asked to take my picture with her daughter Gretchen. I taught Gretchen how to make an “ok” sign. She was so excited she could hardly talk. So was I. They promised to come to other shows, and it seemed we had both made our afternoons.
I had the great pleasure of finally meeting and diving with Jan Kocian, aka “Honza” at his favorite local spot, Keystone Jetty, where one of the ferries comes in on Whidbey island, here in Puget Sound. Our club dives there on and off as conditions can be tricky, it is very open to the wind and currents can be strong and un-predictable, even at slack. Even so, it is a very popular state park with great facilities, hot showers even. So I was very surprised when we pulled into the parking lot at 10am and found it completely empty on a Saturday morning. Usually it is jammed up with student divers. Winds were light and off-shore. Overcast, but no rain. The currents were settling down and as we started to get ready, Jan pulled in and we greeted each other, having had long mutual admiration for each other’s work on the various boards including DigiDiver.net. We’ve traded emails on and off, but never quite connected for a dive. We looked each other’s rigs over and got in the water. Of course the first thing that DigiDivers do is to take pictures. Not of marine-life, but of each other! Swimming out along the jetty, there was a very slight current pushing us out and then once we kicked through it’s back-eddy we were completely out of the current at the end of the jetty. It is usually very strong and can even be somewhat dangerous, as it can sweep un-wary divers around to the other side underneath where the ferry comes in. Not fun, and a long walk back. I’ve never seen the conditions so nice and Jan said it had been that way all week. The critters weren’t too cooperative, but we shot a few fish and nudis. All-in-all, a great dive and I enjoyed meeting Jan. I’ve invited he and his family down for a tour at the Seattle Aquarium and i hope to dive with him again soon! Here’s his commemoration of the event: Here’s a link to some of Jan’s other work and a bit more about him: REEF – Jan’s Creations More photos: Keystone
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