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The things you won't hear from a dive operator when booking a trip
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The things you won't hear from a dive operator when booking a trip.
- "Hey, you're the first guest since...'the accident'."
- "Sorry, we can't take reservations until last week's group is found."
- "Our boats are Reef Diver I and Reef Diver III. Reef Diver II is our first dive for the day, located in 130 feet, five miles out."
- "We can make you a really good deal if you know something about boat engines."
- "Don't worry about the currents, if we don't find you I'm sure Search and Rescue will."
- "That whale shark pictured in our brochure is the only one we've seen in 20 years of diving here."
- "No, we don't have a shark dive, but we do feature a Portuguese man o' war encounte
airline error
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Couple flown to wrong continent after airline error
Two US holidaymakers found themselves a long way from their intended destination after an airline confused two airport codes.
Sandy Valdiviseo and her husband Triet Vo were intending to fly from Los Angeles to Dakar in Senegal with Turkish Airlines. However, instead they ended up almost 7,000 miles away – on an entirely different continent – in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, after the airport codes were mixed up, the Los Angeles Times reports.
The airport code for Dakar, the capital of Senegal, is DKR, while the code for the airport in Dhaka, which is the capital of Bangladesh, is DAC.
After arriving in Istanbul, the couple had boarded a connecting flight. It was only after seeing the route map of the flight’s progress, which showed the plane over the Middle East, that they realised the error.
“When the flight attendant said we were heading to Dhaka, we believed that this was how you pronounced 'Dakar' with a Turkish accent," Ms Valdivieso said.
When they arrived in Bangladesh, the pair informed Turkish Airlines about the mistake, and tried to arrange a transfer to Senegal.
Paradise and Nature
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"Fiji's Reefs"
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Currents are the lifeblood of Fiji's reefs,kick starting the food chain by sweeping nutrients to both corals and fish alike.Fiji is known as "the soft coral capital of the world" and when the current flows the corals bloom into fabulous displays of colorful spledour.The currents also affect the water's visibility which can be the best around,with incoming current bringing clear sea water into the lagoons and out going currents removing any cloudy lagoon water.
Lagoon are feature of the islands and often the water remains shallow until some distance from shore. This means that most of the diving is conducted from boats and also that the shorelines are great for adults children alike to go snorkeling and swimming.
From an article: Dive the World.
Matamanoa,quest comments.
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Thank you very much to the fantastic Matamanoa activities staff.
you all made our secound stay on the "So" ENJOYABLE; I had a great time on the dive trip and we both enjoyed you showing us all the life on the reef during our snorkeling trips.
Thank you most of all for your HAPPY SMILES and freindliness .We hope to see you all in a couple of years time.
Vinaka,
Andrew & Layla.
Canberra Australia.
17th May 2013.
Nemo 33?
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Have you head about Nemo 33? not many have!so what is Nemo 33?well,it's the largest and deepest swimming pool in the world.
Located in Brussels,Belgium-the pool was created by a Belgium civil engineer named John Ceernaertes-his vision was to have gigantic indoor diving complex,full of crazy underwater tunnels and chambers.
The pool opened in 2004 after almost 7 years of being in construction.Nemo 33 is the type of pool you can get lost in if your not careful.
Buddy system
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A diver was diving on a sunken u-boat at a depth of approximately 110 fsw; a few minutes in to the dive, he felt a "buzz" and remembered his scuba class lectures about effects of nitrogen narcosis.He became more anxious with time. He remembered his instructor telling him that ascent would relieve the beginning- to- be- scary feeling within him.So, he swam over to the anchor line and preceded to move hand- over- hand with sole focused mission of ascent to relieve the mental numbness he was experiencing.after a brief time, he did NOT feel relieved and was beginning to experience a head ache.This only increased his efforts to ascent.
Meanwhile,his buddy was observing what seemed to be strange behavior,but just assumed it was a playful underwater joke as his buddy,in a inverted position,again-and-again rammed his head into the deck of the sub. it was only when the dark cloud of blood emerged that the buddy realized there was serious underwater problem.
The affected diver was assisted to the surface by his buddy and his head wound bandaged.
The points to this story are:
1.Repetative behavior is a strong indication of being stressed.
2.The person under stress may not perceive their dysfunction.
3.The affects of nitrogen narcosis will vary with individual,specific to their body chemistry on the day of the dive.
4.Historicaly,the buddy system is a safety asset.
" Buzz "
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A diver was diving on a sunken u-boat at a depth of approximately 110 fsw; a few minutes in to the dive, he felt a "buzz" and remembered his scuba class lectures about effects of nitrogen narcosis.He became more anxious with time. He remembered his instructor telling him that ascent would relieve the beginning- to- be- scary feeling within him.So, he swam over to the anchor line and preceded to move hand- over- hand with sole focused mission of ascent to relieve the mental numbness he was experiencing.after a brief time, he did NOT feel relieved and was beginning to experience a head ache.This only increased his efforts to ascent.
Meanwhile,his buddy was observing what seemed to be strange behavior,but just assumed it was a playful underwater joke as his buddy,in a inverted position,again-and-again rammed his head into the deck of the sub. it was only when the dark cloud of blood emerged that the buddy realized there was serious underwater problem.
The affected diver was assisted to the surface by his buddy and his head wound bandaged.
The points to this story are:
1.Repetative behavior is a strong indication of being stressed.
2.The person under stress may not perceive their dysfunction.
3.The affects of nitrogen narcosis will vary with individual,specific to their body chemistry on the day of the dive.
4.Historicaly,the buddy system is a safety asset.
*Did you know*
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Did you know that there are more than 350 different kind of sharks. You are 1,000 times more likely to drown in the sea than you are to be bitten by a shark. Sharks are more related to the stingrays than they do with the barracuda. Most sharks as we know them today developed about 64 million years ago during the age of the dinosaurs. A shark can hear a fish in the water from more than a mile away. Sharks can smell one drop of blood in a million drops of water. Sharks' wounds heal quickly and they rarely get tumors. Sharks teeth have been used as weapons an tools for many centuries. On some islands,villagers believed that shark were spirits of their ancestors. Eating shark flesh is forbidden in the Solomon and Fiji islands. About 100 people in the world are bitten by sharks each year. of these, five to ten die. The chance of been killed by a shark is one in 300 million. the chance of being killed by airplane parts falling from the sky is one in ten million.