Scuba Diving

Shark Reporting.

In the age of drones this is how shark reporting should be done. The Coast guard or local surfing schools should fly a drone around and check to see whether there are any sharks present. If and when they spot a shark or groups of sharks they could temporarily close the beach until the threat is gone. It reduces the need for shark nets. It also reduces the need and desire to kill any shark that is spotted as people are informed ahead of this time.

Amersports and Sports tracker

Today Amer Sports announced that it has bought Sports tracker. Sports Tracker is an application that I have been using since I had the Nokia N95 8GB. I used it on symbian, iOS and Android devices over the years. What I love about this app is the way it displays information about the work out. It gives you several screens while you are exercising with the option to select which information you want to see most.

The Apple Watch does not fill a niche

The Apple Watch rather than fill a niche provides a fifth screen. According to Wikipedia the four first screens are the cinema screen, the television screen and the mobile phone and tablet screen. The fifth screen is the smart watch as designed by Apple, Samsung, Sony and others. Apple and others have designed phones that bring the mobile phone experience to the wrist. Energy efficient Suunto, Garmin, Fitbit and other brands fill the wrist worn niche effectively because they have designed devices with energy efficient displays that provide tracking whilst at the same time giving extended battery life.

Font del Truffe with T-Reb

Font del Truffe with T-Reb from Slawek Packo on Vimeo. Cave diving in France. Although there is a squeeze at the beginning the cave looks forgiving from a visibility point of view.

Birth of a regulator

Birth of a Regulator - Commercial Film for Apeks from Scarlet View Media on Vimeo.  I was curious to watch part of the process. i am more and more tempted to start diving again but I think without being too technical. I think I need to return to recreational, non challenging dives.

A temptation to go diving.

It makes me want to go diving again. Now that summer is over the lakes should be better. Visibility should have improved.

An extensive collection of Diving videos.

For those who have a passion for Scuba diving I have found a group that you will enjoy. Vimeo has a group with over 1000 members and 2800 videos related to diving. Most of these videos are warm water dives and aquatic life. Diving with whale sharks - Chumpon Pinnacle from nick zioncheck on Vimeo. Sidemount training | Expedition Bjurälven from Markus Nord on Vimeo. Northdiving Arrieta Lanzarote, Tauchen an den Wracks von Barranque del Quiquero from Erich Heiz on Vimeo.

Chindrieux Dives

Earlier today I was at Chindrieux, a lake side village looking out over the Lac du Bourget lake in France. It is a nice lake with good visibility. The dive site where my friends and I usually dive is a wall. You swim out for 300 meters before heading down the bank to a little gap in the cliff. At 9 meters depth you start going west along the wall. On this wall you can find lots of shells and the occasional fish hiding in one crack or other.