I heard from a few people who thought that my blog about illegal fishing Komodo National Park was depressing. I agree. If we can’t protect marine life in one of the world’s most iconic parks, is there any hope? Burt and…
Category: Dive Travel
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The Navigator’s Grandson
Back in the early 1970s I visited Palau for the first time and was killing time in Guam on my way back to the Virgin Islands when I bumped into an ex-Navy diver I had done submarine diving work with…
Fortress America: Heightened Security for Flights to the USA
In the first three months of this year I have travelled from the UK to the farthest reaches of Indonesia via Singapore and Manado, to Cebu via Hongkong, to Marsa Alam in southern Egypt, to Malta and to Spain, so…
Feel like you’re still on the boat after diving?
(Q) Mar 11, 2010 “Hello Doc, I got back from Mexico yesterday, was diving there for 3 days. Didn’t have any problems. After the 3 days of diving I felt like on a boat constantly and still feel like it.…
The Rhone: A Wreck For the Ages
The British Virgin Islands’ most popular dive is far and away the magnificent wreck of the Royal Mail ship Rhone launched in 1865 at Millwall Ironworks in England. The ship was massive for its era featuring two main masts to…