Tag: scuba adventure
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ROMANTIC CORALS MAKING BABIES
When the moon is full and everything is just so right! Last week, with the full moon at the end of October, the coral reefs, in the Grand Port of Mahebourg and Pointe d’Esny, Mauritius, had their annual mass spawning! Everything must have been perfect for them to feel romantic! The light, water temperature and…
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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 AGAIN PART 2
A different view A different view When I crossed the reef again, the view was a very different one. Upon arriving in Mahebourg and writing my blog, ‘The back-roll entry’, it ended with the following paragraph: “I scrolled through some of my Butterfly Project Facebook collages today and found the one stating, ‘Relax, you can’t…
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DRIFT DIVING
A dramatic final dive. As I pulled myself out of the sea and onto the boat ladder, the dark threatening clouds above us opened up and water was gushing down on us, as though God had chosen that moment to pour the ocean onto my head as a baptism, I just qualified as an Advanced…
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DIVING DEEPER
It was time to do my Deep Dive, although we had to wait for favourable weather conditions and it was low tide, with a full moon just a few days before. Le Capitaine skilfully maneuverer our boat to deeper waters as we set off to Anemone Garden where we could reach 30 metres. Weather conditions…
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A WRECK DIVE STORY
Diving on the HMS Sirius Standing at the bus stop in the early morning of my 20th dive, I turned to look at my Lion Mountain and this was the view. Grand Port, Mahébourg, Mauritius, not only a beautiful bay with coral reefs to explore and protect, but also the site of the wreck of…
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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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UNLIKELY BUDDIES
I cannot imagine that SCUBA diving would ever stop to excite me, as each dive, even on the same location, is a completely different experience. But my 18th dive was a morning dive. I admit that upon waking at 07h00 in the morning, my first thought is not, “Hey, let’s get wet and go diving”,…
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