A friend of mine pointed me to some really good on-line software which creates a video from your own uploaded photos and music. Naturally I thought I would have a go to see what it could do. Here is the result using some of my underwater photos...
Enjoy!
Tuesday, 16 December 2008
Monday, 1 December 2008
Diving off the Algarve
This November the family & I had a week in Portugal staying with my Uncle just a few miles North of Albufeira on the Algarve.
Whilst there enjoying the autumn sun and thankfully escaping from the dreadful weather I managed to get 2 dives in with Indigo Divers. They were about the only provider working over what is the Portuguese winter, but they were very good indeed and I would certainly use them again.
The diving was from the shore - not enough people to run the boat. The shelf apparently goes on for miles so the diving is incredibly shallow - I only managed to get 9.5 meters on dive 2.
Despite the fantastic blue skies and mid-twenties temperatures the visibility was pretty poor too - the wave action was stirring up the sandy bottom so that is was almost like diving in the UK quarries that I love so much!
I didn't really get to see very much; 2 octopus including the first one that I have seen swimming and a cuttlefish were the highlights.
This is the best photo that I managed to take and it isn't great so I apologise for that. Can you spot Mr. Octopus in this photo?
The other incident worthy of mention was the fact that I managed to loose my buddy for the first time! Actually he lost me - on the decent on the 2nd dive! The visibility was shocking so I was staying close to the Guide as well as keeping an eye on my buddy - but he just swam off in completely the wrong direction...
I hung around at 3m for a minute then headed to the surface to find him hanging onto the Guide's SMB getting ready to descend! A quick holler stopped him, the guide and his buddy then arrived on the surface so we had a second attempt at starting the dive.
I think I was quite short with the bloke but it turned out that was quite well founded as afterwards he told me that it was the worst visibility that he had ever dived in...
It just goes to show the merit of experiencing diving in the mixed conditions in the UK rather than sticking to holiday based warm weather diving.
All in all an enjoyable day and 2 more dives in the log.
Monday, 24 March 2008
Friday, 21 March 2008
Red Sea, March 2008
I have just come back from a week in Sharm El Sheikh.
It was my first dive of 2008 in Open Water as well as our first holiday as a family - Max is 11 months old and loved every minute of being away in a warm country and not having to wear a vest!
As this was a family holiday I had to negotiate hard on the diving front, but I managed to get 3 days out with Emperor Divers and an additional local snorkel with Kate.
It was a nice balance of the all important family holiday time as well as getting 7 additional dives into the log book!
I managed to get dive 40 done as my last dive which also pushed me over 2000 minutes under water so lots of milestones!
I visited some great dive sites in the 3 days including Shark & Yolanda Reef which apparently is one of the top 10 dive sites in the world! It was a little quiet at this time of the year, but never the less, was a superb full drift dive with some very interesting currents to play with!
I managed to get some pretty good photos whilst under, mainly of small fish and reef scenery. The camera held out well, despite a small incident with my strobe which decided to pop out of its housing as I entered the water on the 2nd dive and decended to 12 meters unaided! My buddy did retrieve it for me, but despite washing and drying it I think it is dead! Hey ho - I was going to upgrade it soon anyway, so here is my opportunity! Shhh...don't tell Kate...
It was my first dive of 2008 in Open Water as well as our first holiday as a family - Max is 11 months old and loved every minute of being away in a warm country and not having to wear a vest!
As this was a family holiday I had to negotiate hard on the diving front, but I managed to get 3 days out with Emperor Divers and an additional local snorkel with Kate.
It was a nice balance of the all important family holiday time as well as getting 7 additional dives into the log book!
I managed to get dive 40 done as my last dive which also pushed me over 2000 minutes under water so lots of milestones!
I visited some great dive sites in the 3 days including Shark & Yolanda Reef which apparently is one of the top 10 dive sites in the world! It was a little quiet at this time of the year, but never the less, was a superb full drift dive with some very interesting currents to play with!
I managed to get some pretty good photos whilst under, mainly of small fish and reef scenery. The camera held out well, despite a small incident with my strobe which decided to pop out of its housing as I entered the water on the 2nd dive and decended to 12 meters unaided! My buddy did retrieve it for me, but despite washing and drying it I think it is dead! Hey ho - I was going to upgrade it soon anyway, so here is my opportunity! Shhh...don't tell Kate...
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