Specialties for July 2009 are done and dusted
Eric, who just completed the July IDC and PADI IE has now also completed his Instructor level Specialty training. We went to a variety of dive sites and had some good dives, we dived at Chaweng Beach, Sail Rock and Japanese Garden at Koh Tao.
The specialties tackled included Deep, Nitrox, DUP, Underwater Navigation, Night and Mulitlevel.
Patrick from this last IDC, completed and earned his Nitrox Instructor rating.
During the dives we took some nice pix each and here's a few that I shot. This one above is a macro shot of some coral which turned out rather nice with a few details of macro life on a coral.
During the Multilevel dive around Japanese Garden we had a fairly rare encounter with a (rather small) banded sea krait, one of the most poisonous sea snakes around. It was hunting and upon retreating it's head out of a small hole, it banged it's head to the side just as a dog can do when he can't rip the food in pieces fast enough. An interesting sight!
During the Deep dive at Sail Rock we had to check the effects of pressure at depth and this is what a normal, empty (!) small water bottle looks like at 27 meters. The bottle gets completely compressed (providing you leave the bottle closed and the bottle is empty or near empty) by the surrounding water pressure. A good thing that we humans merely consist of water or other bodily fluids!
At Sail Rock I also found this coral, which makes for an intricate pattern.
Sail Rock was also host to these two cleaner shrimps, hanging under a rock, upside down. Always nice to spot and see them.
A good and enjoyable time was had by both of us.
Camille
3 comments:
Good phots Camille. Your getting good at it.
And for Eric and Patrick congrats well done!!!
Great photos! I keep picking up good ideas all the time from our favorite CD's Blog. I like cracking an egg at 28-30m, but the water bottle is very impressive. How much water did you have in the bottle?
I tried bringing fruit down to 28m to show the color loss including a red apple and red pepper. A really big red pepper; the kind momma would make stuffed pepper with :) It looked sealed but nothing happened to it. I thought it would compress something like your water bottle.
Steve. The pepper does exsist mostly out of water. same the human body. Come out here mate. have some fun at lady boxing. ;-)
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