Wow, this site, which I just called out
over at divester, is amazing. The photos here are winners in the Beneath the Sea photo challenge.
This one particularly caught my eye. It’s
called “Silk Haven” by Linda Cline.
SUBIOS Diving Festival
Here’s something for scuba photo folk. The SUBIOS Seychelles
International annual underwater festival celebrates the vivid glory of the underwater world. The event features diving
and snorkeling activities, as well as an array of films, videos and slide presentations by acclaimed local and
international guest speakers. There’s also a contest you can enter to show off your best diving videos and
photographs…including a special prize awarded for the Best Video filmed in
Seychelles.
Top Ten Fiction Adventure Travel DVDs
We put out the call to fellow bloggers about
the best films (both fiction and non-fiction) out there that represent the spirit of adventure and travel, and after
putting together a list of about 20 for each, I honed it down to 10.
These fiction films all have travel and adventure as a theme, and while most are fun, others (i.e. Midnight Express)
are a bit more, shall we say, dark. You may disagree with some of these choices…so feel free to comment and add your
own.
(Catch our top ten NON-fiction list tomorrow).
10. Open Water (dark, scary, but well-done. Always make your dive boat captain remember you!)
9. The Abyss (yes, that last scene is really stupid, but the film still rules)
8. The Eiger Sanction (Clint at his sneering best)
7. Out of Africa (Redford before the whole Noriega scab-face thing)
6. Romancing the Stone (Kathleen Turner in her svelte, sexy days)
5. African Queen (Bogie!)
4. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (come on, bank robbing is an adventure)
3. Midnight Express (do your drugs in country…don’t bring them home…unless you’re into anal rape in a Turkish
prison)
2. Apocalypse Now (The horror! Adventure travel into the deepest, darkest recesses of the human soul)
1. Raiders of the Lost Ark (pretty much one of the best movies of all time. period.)
Marine Biologist in Aliens of the Deep
Remember the Abyss, the James Cameron film about aliens in the sea
that was really, really good until the last 10 minutes when that stupid ship emerged from the ocean bottom? Well, I
hope James Cameron’s newest foray into deep-sea diving is better. And, to be honest, I’m sure it will be. Cameron is
without a doubt one of my all-time heroes. He’s not only directed several of history’s greatest films (Aliens, True
Lies and Terminator), he is also a hard-core bona-fide deep sea explorer.
But give a listen to this story about Dijanna Figueroa, one of only a few African Americans working in marine biology,
and a person with a starring role in Cameron’s Aliens of the
Deep.
3,000 Year-old Treasure Found
Check out this story over
at our newest blog, Divester, a site dedicated to all things scuba.
A group of treasure hunters discovered an old Bronze Age (wait, is that redundant…old and Bronze Age?) wreck with
artifacts that might be 3,000 years old. Why, that’s older than Joan Rivers and Dick Clark PUT TOGETHER!.
Items include a gold bracelet, a cauldron handle, and the remains of weapons ranging from rapier blades to axe heads
and swords, a series of items that, come to think of it, sound like a discovery from your run of the mill Dungeons and
Dragons game.