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Everything ocean related, with a special focus on the rich coastal waters of Cape Town, South Africa
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Newsletter: The vibrant bay
Hi divers The pictures today are all from our Mozambique trip, as Clare hasn’t taken any new photos since we got back. I hope it’s not too much hardship to look at turtles and potato... Continue reading...
Just add red
Sometimes the flash on my little camera just doesn’t work. Then you get effects like this one, this one, and the one shown below: What’s missing? Red!
Perpetual Ocean by NASA
Here’s another beautiful visualisation that reminds me of nothing so much as a Van Gogh painting. It was made by NASA, using some smart science coupled with satellite data that was detailed enough to resolve... Continue reading...
Bookshelf: A Sea in Flames
A Sea in Flames: The Deepwater Horizon Oil Blowout – Carl Safina The memory of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is fairly fresh, as it’s been exactly two years since... Continue reading...
Dive sites (inland): Marico Oog
Marico Oog is a natural spring, the source of the Marico River. It is located on a farm in the North West Province of South Africa, and we visited it on our way home from... Continue reading...
Marico Oog
Marico Oog is a natural spring located on the Grootfontein farm in the North West Province, belonging to Willie Muller and his family. We took a detour from Zeerust to the farm in order to... Continue reading...
Friday poem: Sonnet 56
It seems to the poet that love wanes with time and distance. Sonnet 56 – William Shakespeare Sweet love, renew thy force; be it not said Thy edge should blunter be than appetite, Which but... Continue reading...
Newsletter: New wreck dive in the making?
Hi divers The trip to Mozambique seemed to arrive very quickly and ended just as fast. Somehow a week goes by a lot faster when on vacation. We had really good weather and some really... Continue reading...
Nothing new under the sun
The recent Ocearch/Shark Men controversy has gripped Cape Town’s water users and drawn some absolute fringe lunatics out of the woodwork, many of whom object to what they perceive to be the cruel and dangerous... Continue reading...
Eihatsu Maru aground on Clifton 1st Beach
We love a good shipwreck. Witness our obsession with the Seli 1, which ran aground at Blouberg a couple of years ago. It is thus with interest that we discovered that a Japanese-built, Chinese-run fishing... Continue reading...
A Century of Ships
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...
Dive sites: 13th Apostle
Positioned at the end of the Twelve Apostles mountain range (and thusly named), 13th Apostle reef is a distinct mass of granite boulders surrounded by a sandy bottom. Waves have long been observed to break... Continue reading...
Sea life: Brooding cushion star
The first time I spotted a brooding cushion star, on an eye-wateringly cold dive on the SS Maori, I was reminded of nothing so much as a cupcake or similar edible baked good. These sea... Continue reading...
Friday poem: Sonnet 113
The poet can think of – and see – nothing but his lost love. Sonnet 113 – William Shakespeare Since I left you, mine eye is in my mind; And that which governs me to... Continue reading...
Article: False Bay Serengeti of the Seas
The poetic title is not mine – it’s the work of Chris Fallows of Apex Predators and author of Great White and Eminent Grey, who wrote a wonderful article on False Bay that appeared in... Continue reading...
Sea life: Mosaic pleurobranch
According to Nudibranchs of the Cape Peninsula and False Bay, the mosaic pleurobranch is “uncommon”. We’ve only seen one, and this shortly after discovering that such a creature existed. It’s possible that I’ve swum over... Continue reading...
Have you booked
… for the Cape Town Dive Festival? It’s going to be held at the Cape Boat & Ski Boat Club at Miller’s Point. Don’t miss it!
Sea life: Blennies
More often than not, the horned blenny (Parablennius cornutus) will be seen in the attitude above – hiding (annoyingly) in a crevice or, as in this case, a vent on top of the superstructure of... Continue reading...
Bookshelf: The Last Dive
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...
Friday poem: Sonnet 64
The poet reflects on the impermanence of all things (including love) in the face of time. Here’s a bit of Wikipedia analysis, if that’s your thing. Sonnet 64 – William Shakespeare When I have seen... Continue reading...
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