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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