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What to do when you lose your buddy...

by kawaldron

We all know the Open Water “lost buddy procedure”.  If you lose sight of your buddy then look around for a minute, before coming straight to the surface where you should meet back up with them.  Easy, right?  Sure, if you’re diving safely within no decompression limits.  But what about [...]

Lazying on the beach

Budget Travel - Leading by Example

by kawaldron

There are many people out there who’ve been drinking the budget-travel kool-aid, it’s pretty great stuff.  Most of us are forced to travel within some kind of budget, depending on personal means, desires and other commitments.  It adds an even greater challenge to travel – trying to find affordable rooms, [...]

The entry point for Piccaninnie Ponds

Trip Report: Diving in Sinkholes

by kawaldron

Gin-clear waters, craggy limestone, quiet, cows.  These words all bring to mind diving in Mount Gambier, South Australia. Not for the faint-hearted, to be sure, but perhaps not as dark and gloomy as rumor and Sanctum might have it?

Ex-HMAS Canberra

Ex-HMAS Canberra & Fingal's Cave

by kawaldron

Amazing, Wonderful, Sen-bloody-sational… all of these are great ways to describe the day of diving on Sunday!  It was a double dive day on Sunday, with the first dive being on the ex-HMAS Canberra and the second a spot on the Nepean Wall called “Fingal’s Cave” which neither Liz nor [...]

There's a good reason to take 2 computers on a dive!

Devils, Disaster & Lessons

by kawaldron

This was what I would call a bit of a nightmare dive.  Great for skills development after the fact, but just a little bit frightening at the time.  When I surfaced, I was blowing off a 5 hour decompression obligation according to my computer.  That’s a bit scary irrespective of [...]

Nemo (and kiddies)

Nusa Penida, Bali, Indonesia

by kawaldron

Sadly, overrated would be the word that I would most use to describe this particular day of diving. There is no doubt that Manta Ray’s are stunning creatures, but I really felt like I was on my way to the Penguin Parade at Philip Island, or to the Zoo where [...]

Amazing visibility

USS Liberty Glo Shipwreck, Tulamben, Indonesia

by kawaldron

I’ve grouped these two dives together because they were largely the same dive, twice over.  I was diving with one of the smaller shops in Bali, and headed out to Tulamben to dive the USS Liberty, which is a shipwreck off the northeastern coast of Bali. There’s something fantastic about [...]

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Diving into History: Wreck diving in Coron

At the bottom of the ocean, near to a tiny little island off the northern tip of Palawan (the last frontier of the Philippines), rest several Japanese ships which were sunk in a surprise attack by the US forces during World War 2.  These ships are, fortunately, mostly within recreational [...]

Hot Springs

Surface Interval: Maquinit Hot Springs, Coron, Palawan

Faced with the potential relaxation of sore, tired muscles and easing of cramps, I was able to persuade my sickly travel buddy that we were in need of a trip to the Maquinit Hot Springs one evening during our stay in Coron.  There are several known hot springs in the [...]

The sunset in Coron, taken from the Sea Dive Restaurant

Review: Sea Dive, Coron

Diving being one of the major activities in Coron, there is no shortage of dive shops to choose from.  After extensive research, I had narrowed my choices down to three different operations based on price and their ability to offer technical diving and wanted then to meet the different operators [...]

Dive equipment for the next big trip...

Packing for Dive Tavel

Everyone sings the praises of ‘travelling light’ and taking nothing more than a single carry-on bag for those long trips away, but let’s be honest: it’s just not possible to keep all your dive gear under 7kg and have enough fresh underwear to keep your mum happy. In fact, when [...]

Dorothy

I’ve a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore…

Everyone who travels outside their own cultural bubble will have at least one moment along the way where they realise they’re not in Kansas anymore.  Probably more than one.  

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