Tag: save our seas
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NEUTRAL BUOYANCY
A question of balance. New divers often struggle finding that sweet spot where they can just hover, neutrally buoyant. You either rise uncontrolled, struggling to descend or you sink and risk damage to some sensitive marine organisms. When I thought I was going to do coral transplantation shortly after qualifying as a SSI Open Water…
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AN EMERGENCY DESCENT
In Scuba Diving you learn of the dangers of ascending / surfacing too fast. You learn about slow controlled ascents and emergency ascents. But I’m not talking about surfacing! I did that when I came back home after my long dive stay in Mauritius. I want to tell you about going down, descending to the…
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CROSSING THE REEF PART1
Crossing the reef to dive Purple Cave again. I have been out of the water for 26 days now. I feel the call of my blue underwater sanctuary every time I look at an underwater photograph or video. My 25th dive was my last dive of my trip to Mahebourg, Mauritius. Luckily I did not…
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An Emperor on the HMS Sirius
An Emperor on the HMS Sirius I wanted to go back to the HMS Sirius. Feeling that my previous wreck training dive with only 5m visibility and the onset of a narcotic induced confusion at 25m, left some of the wreck unexplored. As the winter weather still kept us inside the reef and I had…
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DIVING PURPLE CAVE
Crossing the reef Saturday I dived Purple Cave. My first dive outside the reef. The morning was perfect and I had the anticipation of a very special dive. Inside the reef the water was mirroring Lion Mountain on the other side of Grand Port as well as a few lost clouds. We geared up and…
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BEACHED – THE BEST WAY!
Finding the perfect spot. For weeks I wanted to get to the beach of Pointe d’Esny. With only two public entries and being dependant on the bus for transport, I was a little concerned about walking distances between these entries and the bus stop as well as the condition of the beach. Would my mobility…
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WORLD OCEAN DAY
Where it matters most. Restoring coral is not only a hot topic internationally, but also what brought me to this bay with its water in so many shades of blue. The healthy ecosystems that can still be viewed on some of these reefs and my exposure to the miracles of creation, in the tiniest forms…
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