The sight of SDI student registration forms popping out of the printer is cause for serious concern.

The University of the Third Age (U3A) is an organisation for retired people (mostly), providing opportunities for further education, creativity and socialising. In August last year Tony and I gave a talk to the False…

Hi divers Last weekend the COLD FRONT arrived as predicted and totally owned the title, we had hail several times over the weekend (the cats enjoyed nibbling on it) but the city centre really had…

One beautiful morning in early April I hitched Seahorse to the divemobile, and headed across to Gordon’s Bay for a special project. The boat had been chartered to assist the Two Oceans Aquarium with the…

Here’s something beautiful: a NSRI advertisement that reminds us of the wonder and enchantment to be experienced down by the ocean, and the work done by the NSRI, serving everyday water users and making the…

I thought I’d share a couple of photos from our very first bunch of students in the pool at home, when they came to take their first breaths underwater and do some of the basic…

Date: 25 April 2013 Now and then the navy like to practise shooting. When that happens, boat traffic needs to proceed with caution in order to stay afloat. On this particular day it wasn’t clear…

Nowhere has the fraught and complex relationship between surfers and sharks played out with as much drama as at Réunion Island, a department of France situated in the Indian Ocean off Madagascar. A surfers’ paradise,…

Hi divers The seasons’ change has had us diving in mixed conditions, clean one day and dirty the next. Last weekend we dived Hout Bay on Saturday (the Maori and Die Josie) and had mediocre…

I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that this is the worst movie ever made. I don’t think a worse movie could be made; I’m willing to make this prediction even…