From the depths…

November 2006

Vilivaru's natural beauty destroyed

Vilivaru after

It seems Vilivaru’s natural charms don’t generate enough profit, for the owners have seen fit recently to start a land reclamation project that destroys the island’s character and no doubt trashes the environment in the process.

Reclamation completed to the north of the house reef and the reeftop scraped bare to the south, presumably in readiness for a further reclamation…

Posted to freeflow on Nov 15 · Continue reading…

Octopus periscope

At a site named Spiral Corner in Wakatobi, one of our fellow divers, Eva, discovered an octopus that apparently made his home in a small coral head covered by leather corals.

We watched him a good while, an he in turn watched us. Eventually, he decided it was time to up periscope, as you can see in the video…

Posted to videos on Nov 12 · Continue reading…

Podcasting from the depths

DiveFilm PodCast Video

I can’t quite recall where I stumbled across DiveFilm PodCast Video, but I must admit that I hadn’t quite expected ever to find an underwater video podcast.

It seems that Divefilm.com has been up and running for some years, presenting some fantastic quality footage by some of the best underwater videographers around…

Posted to freeflow on Nov 08 · Continue reading…

Photoshopped Whaleshark

Whaleshark before and after

Here’s the result of following Saeed Rashid’s Photoshop tutorial on fixing up underwater photos. This is the before and after on Alice’s favourite shot from the Maldives.

Posted to freeflow on Nov 04 · Continue reading…

Virtual Whaleshark tracking

Whaleshark in Google Earth

A timely follow-up on the subject of computer mapping: Google have released a beta of Google Earth 4. If you haven’t tried Google Earth, you seriously must: it’s one of the best web-enabled applications you can buy (except it’s free, of course!).

Among the new features is support for time stamps: that means that the application can display geographic data over time…

Posted to freeflow on Nov 03 · Continue reading…

October 2006

HMAS Brisbane Monument

HMAS Brisbane Memorial

My cyber-chum Mick Rogers has very kindly e-mailed me some photos of the recently completed monument of the HMAS Brisbane, where Alice and dived last October (watch the video here).

I recall the dive guide mentioning at the time that part of the superstructure of the ship had been saved prior to the scuttling to be incorporated into a monument – I guess this is it…

Posted to freeflow on Oct 31 · Continue reading…

Site Google Map added

Armed with my trusty copy of Google Maps Hacks and recent copy of .NET magazine, I’ve added some Google Maps magic to the site.

Since I first thought this might be a nice way to pull together the content on the site, I discovered two other scuba sites that had already beaten me to the punch.

Tim Sheerman-Chase has listed out every dive centre you might ever need in and around Dahab, Egypt and included them on Google Maps. (He also has some great videos on YouTube) …

Posted to freeflow on Oct 29 · Continue reading…

Packing the Peli

Ready to pack

When I first bought an underwater video housing last year, I ordered the kit by telephone from Cameras Underwater here in the UK. After looking at a few housings in the showroom in central London, we’d decided that Ikelite looked like an attractive way to go (on the basis of cost, simplicity and availability).

The one thing I wasn’t at all sure of when ordering was what size flight case we’d need to house all the kit…

Posted to freeflow on Oct 29 · Continue reading…

Wakatobi reefscapes

Another video from our April trip to Wakatobi. The videos I posted already concentrated on the various critters we saw, as opposed to the reefs themselves. And that’s a shame, as the reefs in this part of the world are amongst the finest I’ve ever seen. This clip aims to make up for that omission by concentrating on the reefs themselves.

Posted to videos on Oct 29 · Continue reading…

Tasmania diving

Weedy sea dragon

Following on from our Red Sea trip last month, the next time I anticipate donning a tank will be early in the new year when we are planning to visit Tasmania.

The trip has two main purposes: (i) to visit some friends of ours whoe live there and (ii) get some video of some sea dragons!

Posted to freeflow on Oct 14 · Continue reading…

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