I’m a data and visualisation nerd, and during my day job devote a lot of mental energy to explaining and presenting my (numerically based) work in an understandable, honest and visually appealing way. This beautiful… Continue reading…
The Last Dive – Bernie Chowdhury The Last Dive is a number of things: a history of how cave diving techniques came to be applied to advanced wreck diving (use of lines for wreck penetration,… Continue reading…
On Sunday 11 March, since the Cape Argus Pick n Pay Cycle Tour was going to prohibit access to basically the entire peninsula, we decided to take an expedition out to the eastern side of… Continue reading…
Late last year I took a trip out to find the Agulhas Current with Shark Explorers. The trip takes one 25 nautical miles off Cape Point, and once the clean, warm water of the current… Continue reading…
Here’s a bit of video footage I took of some flutemouths at Long Beach on Monday 13 February. These little fish stuck around for a few weeks, staying in the shallow water where it’s warm…. Continue reading…
Clare took this little video on a recent boat dive. It was meant to be an example of a perfectly executed backward roll off a rubber duck dive boat, but it turned out to be… Continue reading…
Hi divers Summer has decided to linger and the surface temperature in the bay is still 20 degrees. The rays are still around and are seen at almost every shallow dive site in False Bay…. Continue reading…
The Sea Around Us – Rachel Carson Rachel Carson was a marine biologist, conservationist and writer whose life and work should serve as an inspiration to any independently minded schoolgirl considering a career in the… Continue reading…
Atlas of Oceans – John Farndon I confess that I was not totally enamoured of this book when I started reading it. It seemed overly simplistic, but by the time I finished it I realised… Continue reading…
The first time I got to observe turtles up close was on our recent (April 2011) trip to Sodwana. We probably encountered ten individual Green turtles on the dives we did. I was amazed by… Continue reading…
