Don't harrass the wildlife.

Leave that turtle be. Most of my Red Sea photos have this bloke in. That's what happens when you have a UW camera. (even a £30 disposable one like the one above). Please can I suggest that all the camera'd up on this trip take lots of pictures OF ME, ME, ME.

Yellow Fins and Air guitar

Sharm el Sheikh.

Sunrise - 0550

Sunset - 1945

Average temp - 38c

Water temp - 28c

Time +2 hrs BST. (ie. Uk = 1200, SeS= 1400)

Antici.......................pation.

12 days - If I hadn't seen such riches I could live with being poor.

I am a part of all that I have met;
Yet all experience is an arch wherethrough
Gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades
Forever and forever when I move.
How dull it is to pause, to make an end,
To rust unburnished, not to shine in use!
As though to breathe were life! Life piled on life
Were all too little, and of one to me
Little remains; but every hour is saved
From that eternal silence, something more,
A bringer of new things; and vile it were
For some three suns to store and hoard mysell,
And this gray spirit yearning in desire
To follow knowledge like a sinking star,
Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.

Straits of Gubal - Abu Nahas.

http://www.emperordivers.com/divesites_gubal.php

Giannis D podcast/videocast. (quality)

http://www.podcastdirectory.com/podshows/1175567

Giannis D Guide.

http://touregypt.net/vdc/Giannisd.htm

Chrisoula K Guide.

http://touregypt.net/vdc/Thechris.htm

Some Red Sea Links

Sharm - in-depth.

http://www.divemagazine.co.uk/news/article.asp?UAN=2955&v=5&sp=

Liveaboards

http://www.divemagazine.co.uk/news/article.asp?UAN=2872&v=5&sp=

Red Sea Wrecks

http://www.divemagazine.co.uk/news/article.asp?UAN=18&v=5&sp=

Rosalie Moller

http://www.divernet.com/cgi-bin/articles.pl?id=5977&sc=1023&ac=d

It's a beautiful day.......

for basking in the sunshine........................... oh and diving the 'stone in 10m viz. Who would believe we had a spare space.

Less Than A Month to Go...........

This lovely shot of the Rosalie Moller was borrowed from http://www.flickr.com/photos/veelen/

Underwater map of Hand Deeps

Cool Eh?

Saturday 9th & Sunday 10th June

Hello everyone,

Here is the buddy pairing and boat organisation for the weekend. It fell out fairly logically. If anyone does not agree please don't fret and let me know.

I have several ideas for sites but will leave it to each boat to make up there mind.

Saturday.

Oregon (32)/ East Rutts

Eddystone/Scylla

Eddystone/Hand Deeps (slack 3pm)

Scylla/ Hand Deeps

Persier(30)/ Hillsea Point

Rosehill (32)/ Hand deeps

Sunday

Maine (lw slack 1015)/ Hillsea/East Rutts

etc, etc.

Dont forget. 2 tanks, lunch, money on Saturday. Ropes off 0900 meet 0830 Mt. Batten public Jetty.

You live where?

Fancy an evening dive ( on a hardboat)? I go out on a Tuesday evening after work. Ropes off at 1730 back to the pub for 2100 ( we usually have coffee and doughnuts on the boat. Ask yourselves why not come to live in sunny Plymouth. By the first week in June we have achieved 10 glorious evening dives since easter. In April we experienced 10m visability we have since had a big plankton bloom and the viz is now improving again.

Fun time was had by all - details later.