Finally, I got around to finishing the dives required for MSD. Honestly, it should have been done a long time ago considering diving is the main activity on Boracay… but I’m usually too busy drinking and sleeping. All that’s left now is to fill in the electronic PIC’s and the PADI MSD form and Viola! They mail me some cards. Next up is TECREC (Tech I) and Ive already been reading up on the gas theory.
Lifted a massive concrete block from out in the parking area last night thats been abandoned for a while and moved it to our own mooring site. Took a Halcyon 25k and my own 45k lift bag maxed out to move it. thats 70 kilos is 145 pounds… thats not altogather easy to move thru surging water and almost dropped when a clip came loose. Only the tension of double wrapped straps kept it bound to the lift bags.
..but he did it to himself by accident, with cyanide. Click below the fold for the whole article. (source link)
MANILA, Philippines—An American diver was pulled out of salvage operations at the wreck of the M/V Princess of the Stars in Romblon on Friday for numbness and shortness of breath, a suspected case of chemical exposure that occurred away from the sunken vessel and its remaining toxic cargo.
John Hancock, a 38-year-old diver of salvor firm Titan, was airlifted to Manila by a Philippine Coast Guard rescue chopper Friday morning after experiencing chest pains and numbness on the left half of his face and the left arm. (more…)
So there I was, reading this diving magazine and it was pretty cool. The adverts for dive computers were friggin HUGE wrist units with tonnes of display face. Like something off a sci-fi underwater movie. Oddly enough, these ads for BCD’s look like the simple rental ones in diveshops but they are touted as innovative. And the articles, they described a crapload of places in SE Asia with facinating pristine pictures and looking undisturbed completely. I was like YES! All these new cool dive spots and they’re all nearby! But something is off…
Whats this? An article about someone making an underwater IMAX movie? Who still does that? And that Sea Shepard guy, these people are actually supporting him? Daymn! Not even Green Peace will associate with him.
Halfway thru the magazine I recognize this place in Palawan but the article says its off limits. Hmmmm…. Pictures of remains on the cave floor underwater…hmmm…… Then I spot it, a picture of these people underwater conducting the survey - and this guys mask is the old fashioned round faceplate with the metal band holding the rubber skirt to it. WTF?!?! Thats some old skool shit they dont even sell anymore!
Ok, here’s an article about the University of Philippines placing some area offlimits to harvesting turtles … now I know something is wrong because there is no chance in hell of that actually having any worth. Its so retarded that no-one bothers posting stories like that anymore since they’ll be ignored anyway by fishermen.
Lets check something here - - -oh….. the magazine is 10 years old.
