It is good practice as a diver to perform a safety stop at the end of every dive even if your calculations or your computer tell you it is safe to ascend. Generally I’ll spend five minutes at five meters after a twenty meter dive but sometimes it seems that that five minutes takes longer […]
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Yesterday I took a step back in time to dive with a bunch of mates I have not dived with for more than decade. I’ll write more about my experience in another post but for now here is one of the critters we discovered lazing on the deck of the barge (the wreck of the […]
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Times are a little bit crazy. There’s the quiet observers who watch what is going on, do what is required, keep to themselves and in doing so play their part in protecting both loved ones and strangers alike. There’s the panic stricken, raiding city and country stores alike with complete impudence for goods in preparation […]
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For miles all around these two blue giraffe like structures dominate the landscape. As a child, cranes were all about building things and for a long while, just seen from a distance, I was puzzled why nothing seemed to grow taller around any of the Outer Harbour cranes What where they building? Eventually I ventured […]
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Remember these? We used to call them potatoes when you could buy them. Now it seems they are as rare as toilet paper. Walking through my local grocery store on the way home yesterday I tried to buy a couple. Just two for dinner would be nice, I thought, but instead I found sad, empty […]
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