“From Jaua Maior we sailed for the cape of Good Hope, which was the first land we fell withall: neither did we touch with it, or any other land, untill we came to Sierra Leona,…

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

Even though Junior is a scant six months old, his face has a wisdom and maturity of a much older soul. Here he demonstrates his thousand yard stare while posing with a Mares BCD. This…

I don’t think this dive site has a name (other than what we call it), or that it’s high on anyone else’s list of fun places to dive, but it’s proved to be a reliable…

We visited Denmark in July 2011 to spend time with family, and I took this photo at Espergærde (these two photos were also taken in the harbour of this small seaside town). Vegetation like this,…

Hi divers Last weekend we took a tour of the SA Agulhas II, an extremely impressive ship! We were all ready to run away and become polar explorers until we stepped outside on deck (and…

Date: 23 April 2013 Summer diving in the Atlantic can be incredible, but only after a couple of days of convincing southeasterly wind have pushed the surface water offshore and allowed it to be replaced…

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…

The cheeky seal appearing in these photos, that came really close to Seahorse when we were preparing to take her out of the water at False Bay Yacht Club, was caught on video as well…

Date: 11 May 2013 We enjoyed beautiful, calm surface conditions one sunny day in May when I took some local and visiting divers down to Shark Alley to visit the broadnose sevengill cowsharks. The guys…