Breakfast with Bull Sharks

There we were, sitting on a small fiber glass fishing boat, sheltering under our waterproofs from the cold spray of the swell, watching Sebastian, Ben and Gauthier haul in the shark net for the second time… Come  on, we thought, there’s got to be a shark this time! But alas, again there was no catch. […]

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Closed Circuit in the Caribbean

As I push the trolley to the check in desk, the flight attendant behind the counter can’t see my face for the piles of baggage stacked above my head. Dive gear, rebreather, underwater camera gear and clothes for a couple of months away. I feel more like a sherpa’s donkey than a scuba diving scholar. […]

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Red Sea Fish Wrangling

The Red Sea, calm, beautiful, tranquil….? Well, the calm and beautiful aspect was not exactly true for the first journey out of Hurghada aboard the MY Whirlwind. My cabin was at the front of the liveaboard and at 3 am in the morning, as the captain set off for the first crossing of the Gulf of […]

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