Tag: scuba
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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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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 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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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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