SDI/TDI/ERDI Sue PSA

Hmm..interesting.

ITI Holdings, Inc., the parent company of Scuba Diving International (SDI), Technical Diving International (TDI) and Emergency Response Diving International (ERDI), has sues Professional Scuba Association International (PSAI), Professional Scuba Association, Inc., (PSA), and all its officers worldwide.

Read more about it at CDNN.

China Launches Shenzou 6

China has launched its second manned-rocket into space, the first with multicrew. It was almost two years ago that it launched its first astronaut into space. Cool.

It took the Soviets slightly more than 3 years after launching Yuri Gagarin into space before they launched their first multi-member crew mission. The US took 4 years after Alan Shepard’s solo space mission before getting a multi-member crew up into space.

Looks like the Chinese are doing a fast-forward version of the Cold War Space Race.

I hope someone would launch a probe to see if the moon landings really took place.

2nd Day of Fasting

My blood pressure shot up yesterday…this is bad as I get stressed everytime I walk into the office. Especially after a dive trip.

Spent the day today recovering…at RecNTec logging on to the Net and for the first time in weeks, posted on the MDC Forum myself.

Yusmar and I have signed up for the Advanced Nitrox course and by next week we should be certified as qualified Advanced Nitrox Divers.

Had a good time too breaking the fast with Erik, Faizal, Shamsul, Yusmar, Nazri and Ling.

I still feel as if the world spins around me. Must be due to reverse blockage while surfacing the other day.

I need to go back into the water.

If Divers Are Wet and Dive Deep…

Giant Squids Do It Deeper!!

One year's supply of calamari rings!!!

Recently 5 Giant Squids (Architeuthis), one of them 12 meters long, were washed ashore on the beaches of the Bay of Biscay.

Two of the males were found to have been accidentaly inseminated.

Crikey! I thought it was just me and the wife, and millions other human beings who get inseminated accidentally.

Read on on the link up there.

Officially B.U.M

A good friend of mine, Nazri (a.k.a MDC’s MikhQail) is now officially a B.U.M.

Yes, he’s given up his job.

What a brave move…seems a bit bravado..but nevertheless, he’s done it. I wish I could do the same, too.

But what I like most is his status today on his Yahoo! Messenger, that says, “I’m free as a bird…I’m officially a BUM.”

Yeah, bro! But birds don’t have to buy seeds to eat.

Kit and Mervyn

My friends, Kit (a.k.a MDC’s csi) and Mervyn (a.k.a MDC’s Hilk) will be tying the knot come October 1st. I wish them all the happiness in the world, since they both dive (therefore share the same hobby).

Now they want to have an underwater wedding…

Haha…easy. Just let me co-organise that.