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Diving apps for your iPhone and iPad
Diving apps for the iOS platform come in a number of forms. There’s the dive magazine, dive logger, dive planner and now the divers social app. Dive magazines come in two flavours – either a downloadable app (such as DIVE and Diver …
Posted in Diving, Gadgets, holiday, iOS, Lifestyle, Travel
Tagged Air Nitrox, app, apps, Baltic Deco Planner, Closed Circuit Rebreather, DIVE, Dive Log Manager, diving, Diving Dude, EAD, END, facebook, hand, holiday, monitor, nitrox, OC, padi, planning, scuba, tdi, technical, Travel, trimix, VPM, Warning Always
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Recreational dive case for the iPhone 4s
More and more people are taking their cameras on dive trips these days given the fact that the entry cost is quickly dropping. Whether they choose a point and shoot, DSLR or Video Camera the big question is which case …
Posted in Apple, Diving, Gadgets, iOS, iphone 4, Photography, Travel, Video
Tagged apple, camera, diving, dslr, filmic pro, good, iphone, kick-starter, technical, underwater, Video Camera, volume, water
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Web post roundup
Here’s a couple of interesting posts from around the web – mostly about diving related activities:
From the Physorg.com site, a story on decompression :
Researchers at the Navy Experimental Diving Unit (NEDU) have designed, built and validated a novel
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Posted in decompression, Diving, ocean
Tagged diving, Egypt, GLITTERING, ocean, red sea, Second World War, the sun, thistlegorm, Video
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Technical diving on the Zenobia, Cyprus
On my latest jaunt away to Cyprus I took the opportunity to dive the MS Zenobia. It was a Swedish built Challenger-class RO-RO ferry launched in 1979 that capsized and sank close to Larnaca, Cyprus, in June 1980 on her maiden …
360° movie around a dive boat
Here’s a 360 degree video shot on board one of the Camel Dive Club boats. Continue reading
Posted in 360, camel dive club, Canon 7D, Diving, holiday, pano-pro
Tagged 360, boat, Camel Dive Club, Pano Pro, Ryubin Panorama Flash, wordpress
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Ulaanbaatar and gorkhi terelj national park
There’s nothing worse than after an awful train ride is to be awoken at 5:30am to only look out of the window to see a sprawling mass of smoke belching factories and what looks like very basic housing. Welcome to …
Posted in bogd khan, Diving, flickr, Gadgets, gandan, garmin, handpresso, hotel, Lifestyle, monastery, mongolia, national park, Photography, solar, Sukhbaatar, taj mahal, terelj, transmongolia, Travel, ulaanbaatar
Tagged bar, Beijing, charger, coffee, espresso, flickr, food, Gandan Monastery, good, handpresso, help, Mongolia, Nairamdal Park, planning, route, solar, Terelj National Park, Travel, walk, water
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Irkutsk and diving Lake Baikal
Irkutsk……nearly three quarters of the way to Beijing and the largest city in Siberia. Famous for the many Russian exiles who were sent there for their part in the Decembrist revolt and lake Baikal – the worlds oldest and deepest …
Posted in baikal, border, Diving, Gennady Misan, irkutsk, Lifestyle, russia, station, train, TransMongolia, transmongolia, Travel, wooden
Tagged Beijing, Caribbean, diving, Gennady Misan, good, Irkutsk Katia, Irkutsk Krasnokazachja, Lake Baikal, Moscow, russia, scuba, shop, Travel, tree, water
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Should I buy an expensive dive computer for technical diving?
Plan a dive or run by computer? Recreational or technical?
One of the best things I bought when recreational diving was my Suunto D6 – not just because it was a nice looking watch but so that I could track …
Creating planets – photoshop polar wierdness
I’ve just warped several of my recent panoramas into the mini planets using the photoshop polar co-ordinate filter. There’s an excellent tutorial on the photojojo website.
The basic process involves selecting a reasonably interesting photo – panoramas are generally …
Posted in cs5, Diving, filter, manipulation, odd, panorama, Photography, photoshop, planet, polar, weird, world
Tagged 180, Dirk Paessler, filter, flickr, landscape, panorama, panoramic, photojojo, photoshop, Polar Coordinates, tutorial
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Shooting underwater using a Canon and Kodak cameras
I’ve had an underwater camera for sometime now – well I mean cameras. They are the Canon A620, G10 and most recently the Kodak Zi8. I’ve thought about buying a housing for my Canon 7D from both Ikelite and Gates …
Posted in "go pro", b&H, canon, Diving, dlsr, Gadgets, how to, kodak, micro four thirds, Photography, Travel, underwater, Video
Tagged camera, Cameras Underwater, Canon A620, Canon G10, Canon G10 Case, diving, dslr, Go Pros, good, hd, Ikelite Housing, Kodak Zi8, lens, Philip Bloom, technical, UK, underwater, US, Video, water, wide
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360 walk around a dive boat
I’ve added a new page with a panoramic video shot onboard one of Camel Dive Clubs dive boats – Blue Moon. It was shot using the Pano-Pro lens with a Canon 7D fitted to the DSLR adapter. A word …
Technical dives that aren’t that deep
Nine times out of ten, while setting up my technical gear on the boat I’m asked “How deep are you going?”. When diving the Thistlegorm the answer is 31m. Now, most people immediately respond with “what’s the point of 4 …
Posted in decompression, Diving, egypt, red sea, scooter, scuba, tdi, technical, thistlegorm, Travel, Video
Tagged Deep Diving, diving, Extended Range, external, focus, John Mason, review, Shag Rock, Sharm El Sheikh, tdi, technical, underwater
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