Haiti

Depends on your industry. I work in TV/animation and am having enough
fun and games trying to get consistent work in Melbourne. If someone
could gurantee me constistent work in Auckland or Christchurch I'd be
there in flash.

 

I don't pretend that I matter, even slightly, but fortunately I live well
above sea level, in a geologically stable area and well North of the
equator.

No really, they seem to dislike the greatest invention, that of rapid
personal mobility. I don't know why.

 

You are really Porl aren't you

 

The silly thing was that I was married to a Pom for 16 years (she came
her at a very young age but had dual passport). If I had applied for
dual passport when we were still married it would have signed, sealed
and delivered. But for some reason we never got around to going to the
UK while were together. By the time I decided I wanted to work over
there it was too late wasn't it?

Ahhh, 20/20 hindsight. It's a wonderful thing.

 

Nope - same as you lot won't let me in for more than 3 months.

 

Well three's always one zealot and this week it's you.


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Extra dimensions, I hear:
http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2010/01/hadron-collider-201001

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Is this some kind of Coming Out thing?

 

I'm not eating their lamb in that case

 

I loved this bit about the failure:



More monitors started turning red. “The beam is gone,†Alick
Macpherson, a particle physicist from New Zealand, said to the
scientists around him. In many languages at once people quietly muttered
“Fuck†and “Shit.â€

 

Not that I've ever found, but then I'm still young.

 

Are we still talking about scuba diving?

 

I think it's a given fact that the best wrecks for finding stuff on
are at 50+m because a lot of divers shit themselves at the thought of
going deeper than 35m.

Anyway, it's not the depth (nor the duration) that makes it exciting,
it's the profile and you'll never beat cave diving for fucking up a
dive computer.

 

That's why I consider myself lucky to have access to so many wrecks
( 400 or so I know of ) off of the coast of Norfolk. There are a half
dozen or so wrecks that only a small group of us know about and they are
in 20ish meters. So, long bottom times on untouched wrecks. But the
often dived ones fill up with lobsters and crabs faster than they get
collected.

I've only ever cave dived the Cenote. (Not your type of cave diving)

But with a vis estimated at 100 meters they were special and you do
wonder what is holding you up.

I think I've said before:

"You have larger and more balls than I've got."

This is as far as they let 'normal divers' go.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/25701154@N04/4291484654/

This is a bit shaky as I tried to use the natural light getting back to
the entrance.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/25701154@N04/4291487232/

 

Whoosh. No idea what you are talking about.

 

Right, it's been a couple of days now, so here goes...

What's three feet high and has a thousand arms and legs?

The Haiti Hilton.

 

Dunno if it's so much shitting themselves, as to the fact that PADI has
increased popularity so much and they're generally not trained for doing
stop dives.

I remember doing the Blue Hole in Belize. All the yanks were wetting
themselves at the thought of going down to 40m, but my buddy and I had
done a number of 42m dives that summer. I took my camera down but
basically found huge stallectites/mites which weren't very photogenic.
Pretty boring dive really, but the hole looks good from the air. I
think it's more just a tick in the box for the pampered guests.

heh, I thought cave divers didn't bother with computers. They've got
enough equipment to worry about surely.

I started doing deep stops on the return from deep dives. There were
some papers about it and how they help prevent the formation of micro
bubbles or something. Theory being that you do a stop at half the depth
you were at[1]. So on my way back up from the Blue Hole, I was stopped
at 20m for 1min whilst the others carried on. With them backlit against
the sun lit blue, it gave me the be photo of the dive, and also some
quizzing from the dive masters after.

[1] I may mis-remember, as it was quite a while ago now.

 

heh. Lovely little graphic they use. They should have also added at the
bottom "Whilst you're reading all of this, your air is running out".

I did some of the caves / caverns in the Medas Islands (nearish
Barcelona), but they had nothing like that.

Most of them were big, wide open caverns and although there was no
surface, it was nigh on impossible to get lost and you could be side by
side with your buddy.

I did nip into one "proper" cave, but soon came back out.

 

Oh deary dear ))

 

So forgive you for not giving a shit?

This is UKRM, so spouting shite without knowing anything about a particular
subject is actually mandatory.


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Beav

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