Flunk
I was sooo disappointed with my camera housing. It gave me huge problems with buoyancy and I couldn’t even descend with double of usual weighting. The bag of air put up a such a struggle, I had several cuts on my hands from yanking at the mooring line to make a descent. Finally, after the panic attack, I passed it back to the boatman and obviously flunk my underwater photography. Sigh… in any case I still completed 5 other dives for my advanced open water course! WHEE! I will share photos soon on my blog. J
Advanced OWD
Just to update you. I passed the theory sector for my advanced Open Water Certification! All I gotta do now is not panic during the practical open water dives and I should be on my way.. In fact, the instructor has already asked for my passport photo to send together with the certification card application. Mwhaha! Yea.. but I m kinda worried over 3 specilaty dives since they are with another instructor.. And it’s Malaysia.. you know la..
Advanced Open Water
The isntructor almost killed me… and came up with a long story as to why I shouldn’t black list the previous tioman resort..
Of course, after much talking and arrangements, I got to do the 5 coolest and most desired specialty dives! (not considering the crazy FISH AWARE…)
Deep (Resort Instructor)
Night (Already done)
Underwater Navigation
Search & Recovery (Resort Instructor)
Fish Aware
Photography
MARRY / DIVE WITH THE RIGHT MAN!
Scuba man jailed for wife's death | ||
An Australian court has sentenced a man to four-and-a-half years in prison over the death of his bride on their scuba-diving honeymoon on Great Barrier Reef. Christina Watson, 26, drowned while diving with her husband, David Gabriel Watson, an experienced diver, 11 days after their wedding in 2003. The sentence came after Watson pleaded guilty to manslaughter having previously denied murder charges. Prosecutors said he had failed in his duty as his wife's dive buddy. 'Survival extinguished' Prosecutor Brendan Campbell said Watson had failed to give her emergency oxygen when she needed it. Watson allowed Christina to sink to the ocean floor without making any serious attempt to rescue her and also failed to inflate her buoyancy vest or remove weights from her belt to allow her to surface, Mr Campbell said. "He virtually extinguished any chance of her survival," he told the court hearing, in Brisbane. A dive instructor found novice scuba diver Christina Watson lying on the bottom of the ocean after her husband, known as Gabe, had surfaced. In mid-2008 a coroner found it was likely Watson killed his wife by holding her underwater and turning off her air supply. The American couple were on their honeymoon in Australia. Watson, who has since remarried, voluntarily returned to Australia last month to face his murder charge. Christina's father Tommy Thomas, her sister Alanda and friend Amanda Phillips travelled from their native Alabama to attend the court hearing. Prosecutors had sought a five-year jail term for Mr Watson, with the possibility of parole after 18 months. | ||
Underwater Hotel
Visitors to Istanbul will soon have a chance to view the most spectacular ocean views on the planet. A seven floor, seven-star hotel is being built underwater on what was formerly a tobacco factory. There will be exhibition halls, and restaurants, and all rooms will be sea facing.
This isn’t the first such underwater hotel complex in the world. That honor goes to the $500 million Poseidon Hotel which is currently being built off Fiji. The Istanbul hotel differs in that it is being built under the city center, which should make for an interesting experience.
The hotel’s inauguration is set to coincide with the city’s taking over from Linz, Austria as the Cultural Capital of Europe in 2010.
http://www.vagabondish.com/underwater-hotel-in-istanbul-to-open-in-2010/
My Crazy Diving Buddies again...
Pulau Hantu
