I’m sure this has caught your attention. Read it on here: Deep Divers Explore the Titanic
See if I’m pulling your leg!
Tourists Shun Phuket
When the asian Tsunami struck this region, the press was quick to write about the devastation it caused to the nations involved. And I find it very silly that even Malaysians, shun waters. I cannot comprehend the reason given for the lack of local visitors to places like Port Dickson and, yes, the Perhentian Islands: Tsunami.
Silly is just too nice a word to be used here.
Now that places like Phuket and Langkawi are recovering, and that several international events have taken place in these places, namely yachting regattas, it seems as if the press, which couped millions of dollars in profits because of the disaster, have forgotten to return to these places to write positively about how these places are back in the ring for another fight. Apart from dive and certain travel magazines, I have yet to see any positive articles being written in the mainstream media. Even the electronic media hasn’t done its part in covering the recovery of these places.
Shame, that you made milions out of the dead, and you’re not giving back to the living.
Those victims died in vain.
Speciality Dive
Since I’ll be in Tioman this weekend, I would prefer to do a speciality dive…perhaps the Multilevel Diver speciality…rather than diving without purpose. I know I’ll be doing some underwater photography as usual, just to keep myself occupied, but it is time to move on. I must further my qualifications.
I’ve been spending almost every free time of my free nights revising my wheel Recreational Dive Planner, and have been reading more about nitrogen narcosis (from where this site got its name) to plan for my normal air dive to 57 meters, which really is, the depth limit for any normal air dive. Anything deeper than 30 meters is not really safe, and divers are more exposed to nitrogen narcosis at this depth. Recreational diving sets its limit at 40 meters (which is the depth US Navy sets for normal air dives), and 42 meters in case of emergency. Any deeper would be dangerous, anything deeper than 57 meters is..crazy.
Since I have been doing lots of multilevel diving, I guess I may as well make it one of the speciality ratings I’ll be going for.
Scuba divers find millions in jewellery
Scuba divers find bags of jewelry worth millions
Lucky bastards! Why didn’t my dive organiser thought of going there?
Ouch!!!
Back to diving now.
Bent UK scuba diver back home with $37,000 souvenir
Now this is painful.
May I relate this to what a friend had experienced just a couple of weeks ago. He is an instructor. He recently applied for a life policy but was turned down simply because he is a scuba diver. If he wishes to have a policy, he will be subjected to extra “loading.” In fact I’ve faced the same condition when I skydived. But as an instructor, he doesn’t earn much.
Now, to say he or I would be better off without a policy would be plain stupid. But what choice do we have?
Achieving target…
At the onset of this year, I vowed to do 50 dives this year. I’ve only done 24.
My wife’s finally confirmed her trip to Beijing. 12th thru 16th of September. I’ll be going to Tioman 9th thru 11th, hopefully to do 10 dives. Now the problem is an instructor friend of mine is organising a trip to Redang island. Even there I can do another 10 dives. But my wife’ll be away during then. Who’s to look after the kids?
Repulse trip, hopefully I can log another 6 dives. Then I would have achieved my 50-dives year…excluding my planned trip to Pulau Payar and Mataking.
Problem-solving time…
USS Lagarto (SS-371)
There’s been a legal wrangle between the US Government and divers in Thailand who found and solved the final mystery of the submarine USS Lagarto (SS-371), that was reportedly sunk by the Japanese in the Gulf of Thailand on the 3rd May 1945. The US Government says it is a war wreck and no one should be allowed to dive it and charges the Thai divers as “grave-robbers.”
Did the sub carry gold bullion? Are divers going to retrieve skulls and bones and hang them up on the dive shop’s wall?
Do US laws apply to non-US citizens?
Try telling that to the Brits whom have been diving the HMS Prince of Wales and the HMS Repulse. They’re not supposed to dive there.
One Diver Less (Update)
This is an update of my earlier posting: One Diver Less
The guy died of poor health. The Rhode Island Medical Examiner’s office said that Stephen Hardick died as a result of “saltwater drowning associated with upper gastrointestinal bleeding due to cirrhosis of the liver, cardiomegaly and urolithiasis.”
Cardiomegaly is the medical term for enlargement of the heart and urolithiasis refers to mineral deposits or “stones” in the urinary tract.
The Rhode Island Medical Examiner’s office told CDNN that Stephen Hardick died as a result of “saltwater drowning associated with upper gastrointestinal bleeding due to cirrhosis of the liver, cardiomegaly and urolithiasis.”
Cardiomegaly is the medical term for enlargement of the heart and urolithiasis refers to mineral deposits or “stones” in the urinary tract.
The Rhode Island Medical Examiner’s office told CDNN that Stephen Hardick died as a result of “saltwater drowning associated with upper gastrointestinal bleeding due to cirrhosis of the liver, cardiomegaly and urolithiasis.”
Cardiomegaly is the medical term for enlargement of the heart and urolithiasis refers to mineral deposits or “stones” in the urinary tract.
Hardick’s wife, Kay, said that her husband had not been feeling well recently, however, they did not think his condition was serious.
The Marine Safety Office, a division of the U.S. Coast Guard is also investigating the accident and has reported that Hardick’s scuba diving equipment was functioning properly.
One diver less
Scuba diver dies off Rhode Island coast – CDNN report.
This guy was THE guy in scuba-diving. 60 years of age, he taught safe scuba techniques. He was diving at the wreck of the submarine U-853, some 37 meters underwater. He was with friends who were filming the wreck.
Seriously, at 37 meters, if he was doing a normal air dive, he would have had 11 minutes at that depth for a non-deco dive. I’m pretty sure he was on Nitrox to enable him to stay below longer.
Could it have been exertion? Or some cardiac problem?
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