tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1834628256107322322026-08-20T06:47:22.409+02:00A blog on my diving, equipment and travel.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12144525342728715312noreply@blogger.comBlogger43125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-183462825610732232.post-52656142101896165652015-08-30T13:34:00.000+02:002015-08-30T13:34:11.932+02:00

It has been a while, but here I am again. This season I have been diving, but not blogging. However today I write again. Reason: I started a Wreckdive training and my first dive with the MV Serenity was great. The plan The plan was to go to the Stoomketel site, and check out the wreck there. From there to move to the SMS Bayern or one of the other wrecks. We missed our opportunity to dive

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Freshwater from Mrmorc66 on Vimeo. a Short Impression on Freshwater Dives in Holland

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I had a great time in Egypt.. I'll post the photos in my other blog; dive.mauricedeboer.nl but I returned in one piece. The journey itself is GPS logged. I do not have all locations marked but at least it give you an idea of the journey. Unfortunately Google decided to close the KML importing on a map, like I was using for this post. So, now you have to believe me on my word that the trip was

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Ever since I started looking for a decent and payable divelight I have been on the lookout for new versions, alternatives and DIY solutions. With the current Chinese lights flushing our underwater-lamp market, the producers now seem to be distinguishing themselves more on product and build quality than on brand name alone. Where 5 years ago you could buy hyped ( and often bad) LED lamps from top

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After a couple of years of intensive use the divelight is getting much worse... the batterylife I had at the beginning was about 6 - 7 dives without recharge when using it on setting 1 or 2 during the dives. Now I have replaced the old accu's by new Li-Ion versions. Rechargable, faster to load, constantly delivering maximum power... and just 1 drawback: because of the accutype the

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I returned from my dive holiday yesterday... It was a great 11 days of diving, sun, good food and rest. I have to thank a number of people, for their great company, service, fun and support. The holiday went as planned, there where no real changes from the plan. First a couple of days at Wadi Lahami and then a week onboard of the Rosetta. I have done a great number of things seen a lot of new

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In my preparation for my dive holiday I found a great little app that I really needed to install. This is the Dive Log app from Rob Knapen. I hope it works out and that I can actually log my dives during the holiday. The application looks simple, and is functional in the free version, but I actually bought this app as I wanted the full functionality. That actually was a milestone for me: this is

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It is freezingly cold in Holland, at the moment, -5C and 6-8 Beaufort Easterly wind, winter in March?! It has not been this cold in decades. (Coldest 23 March since 1916) I am really hoping not to catch a cold now... as I am feeling not to well. The idea is to go on holiday within one month. Early in the spring season, just before the big tourist rush. The first stop is at the famous

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I've been working on my holiday preparations for a while.. doubting if I should really buy that Gopro camera or not. I decided I shouldn't do that and I will explain in detail why not. I am going to use this for diving and it is an extra I will use besides my photo camera. It really is a fun thing to have, and I have done action things before. Just check out my video section. While the Gopro is

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I just returned from a great diveweekend in Schelphoek, Zeeland. I'll blog more about it .. but the most important stuff first: The dives were great, but it was a bit chilly. Conditions underwater were better than above... With near freezing temperatures and a cold wind coming from the polders, along the dikes. The good thing, though: We spotted some divers that spotted a seahorse.

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busted o-ring I did it... after cleaning my lamp, checking all stuff is ready for Zeeland, next week, I cut one of my o-rings. To be very sure I am not using that one again. While checking all of the stuff, I noticed this o-ring had a small hole in it. Now the big search for replacements will start. Hoping to find some easy way of getting my replacements. Luckily the original lamp

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On this rainy saturdayafternoon I finally get some time to do the posts on my latest dives. Last weekend we had another Calamari divingweekend. Great, it was quite busy at the camping we stayed... but that was more because of all the Calamarians than that there were other guests there. We had great dives again, 7 in total, even though the weather was not that good all the time. I did not manage

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Again I am posting on environmental issues. It is not that I am a radicalist or a ecologist .. it just so happens that I found some news worth blogging about today and yesterday.   Two things got my attention this week. First the RIO UN + G20 conference, the second one being the Arctic Oil Exploration starting up and getting a significant concern. Rio The UN summit of G20 on environment

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Ocean's 11th hour... or a collection of horror and beauty video's after which you would gladly sign an online petition. As a hobby underwater photographer, last year I decided to do a biology training... if you know the biology, you'll understand better how to photograph it, was the idea. It seems to work... Last year I made a new kind of photo's, more attention to detail and species I did not

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Sorry for the delay in posting .. but: I returned from my divetrip to Zeeland last Sunday. I have blogged on the Dutch blog but I did not find time to do this in English Last week I went on a divetrip with Calamari, a biologists student diving club in Groningen. I am donor and as one of the benefits I can join the camps they organize. Great! First camp this year was last week .. windy, rainy and

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I've been posting on the old chinese lamp I have... The guy that imported it now develops his own lamps.. since no company delivers the right combination of cheap and good. His product looks very nice, I actually might want to buy me one of these if he could create something to hook it to my camerahousing. The whole range of his prototype products can be found on youtube and on his site The 25

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It has been a while, but now the season starts again. I've survived the long wait. Last month I found a colleague of mine used to be a Tech diver, he stopped a few years back, but has all kinds of gear still lying around. Now I am helping him selling it. Good thing is that I had first pick of the left-overs... so I now have a new collection of rarities ;-] The rest is online for sale. By

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OK, as I blogged earlier on my dutch blog, the dive season was at it's end somewhere in September... or so I thought. Weather was getting worse and diving in rainy weather makes all but the underwater-part of diving a bit less appetizing so I ended my diveseason. What actually happened is that I ended up joining the Calamari diveteam for their autumn dive weekend in Zeeland at the 21st.

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Myself, I own a 850... but if this coolness would have been available when I bought the lamp, I might have reconsidered. Ever since I have had my problems with the 850 I have commented with the production company on my desire to have a diffusor on it... so I can take better pictures. Well, in China they listened. The new AT-810 concept, similar to the previous version has 750 lumen and is

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... and it is back. After months my Dive lamp returned to me. Read the other posts to gather the whole story but I bought a dive lamp, the cheap MJ850, to finally have some more light during my dives. I used to carry a small backup light and I had a true antique 3W Halogen lamp, but I thought I needed to upgrade now everyone has these fancy HIDs and LEDs. As promised, the story aftermath: The

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Found in the rainforrests of Borneo, a mushroom.. looking like a sponge... sing along: What lives in the rainforest, under a tree? Spongiforma squarepantsii, a new species of mushroom almost as strange as its cartoon namesake.

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Advantage of doing a Biology training is that you tend to look a bit better and closer. Just to show off some first results of the effect of training during my last 2 dives see the following. - smoke in the water Seen many times in different locations. This time in Tynaarlo. I can still do with some explanation on what I see here .. but seeing this invited me to check and analyse a bit better

Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12144525342728715312noreply@blogger.com09482 Tynaarlo, Nederland53.08606629444364 6.6338902205932353.05828329444364 6.60573222059323 53.113849294443639 6.66204822059323tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-183462825610732232.post-67971545624257051622011-05-07T11:44:00.001+02:002011-06-08T15:34:27.160+02:00

So I finally took some time to upload some photos again in Flickr. I created a new Egypt Set, containing Dahab photos and next month I will add more about the 2008 trip. The International Set contains the best shots of the Oman, Turkey and other locations... Also I am about to setup a folder containing Zeeland Photo's (Most interesting Dutch location) and the best shots from other locations

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Starting with an early flight at 5 AM is not ideal... it meant I needed to travel the evening before, so I left home at around 10PM to take the last possible connection to Schiphol that day. Arriving just after midnight I noticed how most shops and bars were closed with the exception of the standard hamburger "restaurant". Check-in was not open yet... I had to wait at least 2 hours until I could

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This was my first holiday with my new Canon Powershot G12 - The camera performed very well. Yet I have had BIG problems with the housing. At the moment I am preparing to send the housing to the dealer, as it has caused me much grief. On my 5th dive with this housing, the one where I shot the video of the turtle, I noticed the housing started leaking. I could not believe my eyes... several

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