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Magical Maldives
Have you ever had the feeling, just before you set off, that your holiday is going to be an experience you'll never forget? This is the feeling I had, as we were about to embark on our trip to the...
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The Darkness Beckons (Part 2)
We all get out of bed (off the floor) at an ungodly hour as we are diving Ginnie Springs today. I was intending this to be a case of "being temporally awake" while moving myself from the floor, to...
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The Darkness Beckons (Part 1)
We thought you must be dead" the first words uttered to me by Paul Neilsen the morning of my IANTD 'full cave' course. It transpired that my message the night before, that I would be travelling up...
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Truk Part 3
We did quite a lot of this. Photo courtesy of Don Dixon I did the Hoyo Maru at dusk. It's an oil tanker, like the better known Shinkoku Maru. The engine room is at the back, and that was where the...
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Truk Part 2.
Finally we arrived in Truk. And the following day our luggage turned up. But it was worth it... Photo courtesy of Don Dixon...
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Truk Part 1
Truk, or Chuuk as it is now known, is a world-class destination for wreck divers. The team, slumming it It's been a number of years since SCDC has visited Truk in force, although there has been...
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Bali - West Timor Part 2
Dragon food on the beach We actually got off the boat at Komodo, and in an hour's walk, we saw 3 of the dragons - 2 large males and a smaller one. Back to the diving and on the south side of Komodo...
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Bali - West Timor Part 1
A 2 week live-aboard from Bali to West Timor via Komodo and the Alor Straits provided some great diving. Indiana Bones & the Indonesian liveaboard Chinese New Year in Hong Kong is generally cold...
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Palau 2004
21 intrepid souls set off from Hong Kong, bound for Palau after a night in Manila. Things went remarkably smoothly in Manila, which made a pleasant change. Fortunately we had local knowledge through...
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Techies Gone Wild in PNG (Pt 1)
29/3: Check-in dramaThe trip began auspiciously when I was not allowed to check-in. Brian, Andy and I wanted our bags checked straight through to Port Moresby (via Singapore), however the check-in...
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Techies Gone Wild in PNG (Pt 2)
2/4: TsunamiFirst news of the day was of a tsunami heading our way. There had been an earthquake in the Solomon Islands and on the radio were reports of coastal villages in the Russell and Trobiand...
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Techies Gone Wild in PNG (Pt 3)
6/4: Lots of sharksThe Masaya destroyer was a banana boat between the world wars and already over 20 years old when sunk. There was not much life on it and a layer of murky water obscured much that...
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Malapascua, September 2007
IntroductionFancy a few days away diving, but are fed up with Puerto Galera? You could do a lot worse than going to Malapascua. It's almost as easy to get to, has excellent, affordable diving, plus a...
View ArticleBuddyline Nov/Dec 2011
Buddyline is here! Yes, it's here... the newsletter you have been waiting for... in all of its glorious technicolor display and shakespearean prose. I do expect that your reaction right now should be...
View ArticleBuddyline Jan/Feb 2012
Well, we've done it again. Filled up an entire 11 pages with chatter, drivel, incriminating photos and silliness that probably should be removed from the annals of history. But why stop what you've...
View ArticleBuddyline March/April 2012
Buddyline is here! I called it the 'March/April issue', though I missed squeeking it into March by two days. Ah well, you'll forgive me. Download your copy of the Buddyline now and kill those final...
View ArticleBuddyline May/June 2012
Buddyline is here! Dive Camp and Quiz Night are only some of the fun that we've had over the past eight weeks covered in this latest issue. Oh, and the diving has been excellent! Download your copy of...
View ArticleBuddyline End of Summer 2012
Buddyline is here! A full summer of diving covered in one issue, plus the usual shenanigans from an unusual group of divers. Download your copy of the Buddyline now!Click here to download from the...
View ArticleBuddyline New Year 2013
Buddyline is here! A new year deserves a new issue of the Buddyline! Download your copy of the Buddyline now!Click here to download from the website.--- That is all,Robchairman@scdc.org.hk
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