Mar10

Eating sharks is unhealthy

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As an apex predator, shark flesh concentrates a whole pile of polutants. Mercury, PCBs, organophosphates and nasty organic halides for instance. It is definitely not good for you.

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Mar8

Viagra good for divers?

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The Israeli airforce is currently experimenting with giving their pilots Viagra type drugs. This is not just to help them get a stiffy as they kill Palestinian women and children. It appears that the drug also helps the pilot’s lungs function thus increasing their effectiveness.
So maybe we divers should try the same research and experimentation. Pop [...]

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Filed In: Dive science

Feb7

Bruceongames.com

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I have another blog, far more active than this one.
It is about the video games industry, often from a marketing perspective.
It is called Bruceongames.com and you will find it here: http://www.bruceongames.com/

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Nov11

Shark finning petition passes 1,000 signatures

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It is great that so many people care enough to sign this petition. Please do your bit to help by adding your signature at the petition website.
To: Hu Jintao president of the People’s Republic of China.
Currently the Chinese people are eating a soup which is causing the biggest ecological disaster of our time. Supplying the [...]

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Filed In: Marine life

Sep22

Menorca Revisited

I went to Menorca for a week to do some gardening for my mother. Over the week I managed to fit in 6 dives at Salgar Diving. As ever they are a very pleasant and efficient crowd to dive with and it was very nice to be doing those great Menorcean cave and cavern dives again. [...]

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Filed In: Trips


Jul31

An expensive lesson revisited.

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 It is now 4 months since my disaster and I thought that it was time to reflect from a distance.
There are three seperate elements to doing what my instructor does. Being a diver, being an explorer and being a teacher.
Firstly as a diver he is very good. He should be, the amount of time he [...]

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Filed In: Opinion Technical Trips

May29

Nemo 33

Nemo 33, for those that don’t know, is a unique divesite in Brussels, Belgium. Think of it as an overgrown swimming pool, or as an inland divesite that has been roofed over.
The name comes from it being 33 metres (over 100 feet) deep and from the water temperature being kept at 33C. Their website is: [...]

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Filed In: Dive sites Just diving Trips



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