I came across this regulator failure story which I thought was pretty interesting. Maybe I have a morbid curiousity
with accidents, but I always enjoy reading a story about how someone managed to live against the odds. Read on for an
interesting (and scary) tale. Photos of the silo are here.
Boston Sea Rovers This Weekend
This weekend is jam packed with great happenings…especially here in the Eastern Seaboard.
The Boston Sea
Rovers event takes place Saturday and Sunday. A celebration of diving and diving technology and media, this is a
HUGE event with HUGE names. Among folks attending the event and the film series are legendary cinematographer Al
Giddings, co-producer of TITANIC, and a big player in the productioon of The Deep, The River Wild, For Your Eyes Only,
and Never Say Never Again, and an OSCAR nomination for The Abyss. Then there is the world-renown independent
photographer and filmmaker Norbert Wu who we have mentioned several times before for his amazing underwater photography
in Antarctica.
This is a big event, and if you are at all interested in diving and you are in reach of Boston, you ought to check it
out.
Photo of the Day: (3/04/05)
Look ma, no cavities! Who knew dolphins had such a mouthful of teeth?
Anyway, a great picture from Tahiti
by Rodger Klein.
Shooting Fish
Here’s a
fantastic guide to learning how to properly shoot fish.
Put together by Kurt Amsler, a professional photographer. The piece gives the low down on how to shoot with the right
flash, and setting proper aperture and shutter speed for the best shots you can get. Shooting underwater ain’t easy.
It’s not just pint and click, so boning before you go out on what it takes to shoot great UW photos is always a good
idea.
Click here and read the top ten photo tips Amsler
recommends you follow.
A different kind of scuba magazine…
For those of you that have become skeptical of the traditional trade magazines telling you
that Cozumel is still a one of a kind destination, here’s something different for you. It’s called Undercurrent and
they accept absolutely no advertising whatsoever. What that means is that they don’t hold back in their reviews of
locations, dive shops, etc. While expensive (they have to make up the lack of advertising somehow) and very small
monthly issues (think 10-20 pages total), the real gem comes once a year in their Chapbook. It’s a huge collection
(several hundred pages) of trip reports on every imaginable destination on earth – with little to no censoring of
people’s trips. Want the real truth on that dive shop in Honduras? The one that let me dive with corroded steel tanks
and later admitted they hadn’t been checked in five years? You will find it in the chapbook. Needless to say, I’m
renewing my subscription this week.