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Under the spotlights : Doug Anderson
by Ksso on May 09, 2011
Doug is better know on Flickr as "Doug.Deep". He takes some of the most incredible underwater shots I've ever seen with over 114 photos featured in Flickr's Explore.
Can you tell us a bit about who you are and how you started diving ? I am 49 years of age and have been living in Sydney, Australia, for most of my life. Eight years ago I returned to Sydney after a long period living in a small village in the northwest of New South Wales. During this period in the bush I became very accustomed to living a quiet and peaceful existence close to nature; faced with the reality of living once again in a busy, urban environment, I took up diving as a means of finding a temporary escape from the...
The deepest dive : 1960 - 10,916m
by Ksso on May 07, 2011
In 1960 (that was 50 years ago !), the Trieste was the first and only submersible to ever reach the depth of 10,916m (38,500ft). Swiss designed, italian built, with a crew of two : Don Walsh and Jacques Piccard. The Trieste only had a tiny window to look outside, and the video below shows how crazy an adventure it must have been to get this submersible down there. This submersible is the ancestor of the new generation that Richard Branson aims at using with Virgin Oceanic.Fun fact, a prototype of the Rolex Deepsea was attached to the external structure and survived the test.
Diveboard features update : Fish, Fish and Fish (it's friday !)
by Ksso on May 06, 2011
As we were teasing you earlier this week, we weren't happy about our Fish database, many common names were missing, it was hard and unintuitive to tag a fish, and if you don't know exactly which fish you've seen (ie. I saw a clownfish but which one !?) the system wasn't helping... So we had to rethink it a did a few major changes.A new database and improved UI
We worked with the guys and girls at Encyclopedia of Life - EOL.org to integrate their über exhaustive database through their APIs. This enables us to search through millions of scientific and common names of marine species, giving you results to your queries that actually make sense. Cherry on top, we're showing a thumbnail for the...
Fighting moisture in your underwater housing
by Ksso on May 05, 2011
If you're doing some underwater photography, you know how painful moisture can be. A few drops of waters in your housing, pressure, and *bam*, you can't take pictures anymore.That's why god (well science rather) gave us silica gel.Those funny tiny white bags actually are supposed to capture moisture and keep the inside of your housing dry, but beware, those do not last forever - when they captured all the water in the air they stop working, and drying them out is a pain (and can be just impossible in some cases). Even worse, it's almost impossible to tell the state of your silica bags, they may be useless already but you have no way to tell...Now here's my little secret : I use those...
Diveboard feature updates : Export your dives
by Ksso on May 04, 2011
Dear Diveboarders, we just released in production a upgrade to the service. The Changelog includes:
Export your dives:You can now export one dive as ZXL / DAN DL7 from the profile pane of your dive, or multiple dives from the "Bulk Upload" wizard on the "Export" pane.
Better support for UDCF & ZXL:A couple of users have experienced some trouble uploading their dive files, this is now fixed. As you may know, each software vendor has its own interpretation of the format norm... so we'll do our best to include support for all those flavors as we encounter them ...
Objective Atlantinde : a treasure hunt in France's mediterranean sea
by Ksso on May 02, 2011
Objective Atlantide is a treasure hunt that has been around since 1989. Since 2003, a Mediterranean-sea-only version is organized over a period of 3 months. A pack of clay tablets (20000 this year) are scattered on popular spots of France's Mediterranean sea and groups of divers have to work together and find 14 of those to enter the final and have their club win one of the numerous prizes. The clay tablets are dropped at a max depth of 20m (60ft). The hunt just started this week-end, so if you're looking for you next dive, you may consider entering the challenge !
Incredible spots: the Orda Cave (Russia)
by Ksso on April 26, 2011
A team of russian divers have been exploring the Orda cave for the last couple years taking incredible pictures and producing a beautiful 50$ picture book.Orda Cave is the most extended underwater cave in Russia, the second in Eurasia, with regards to length, and the world’s greatest gypsum cave. It has status of All-Russia natural monument. It is the first and the world only underwater gypsum excursion cave, member of I.S.C.A (Association of Excursion Caves of the World). In 2008 Orda cave was applied to be included in the List of UNESCO World Natural Heritage. Unique beauty of Orda cave was marked by the world-famous British cave-diver, cave-diving instructor of the Royal court of Great...
Fish round-up: (deep) Sea Pig
by Ksso on April 22, 2011
After a post on the Sea Cow and another one on the Sea Cucumber , I guess Sea Pig has to be next.The sea pig is a funny invertebrate than can be found at depth over 1000m (3000ft). He gets his chubby look because of his especially unusually large round feet and the pinky skin got him this common name. As you can see on the map below, it's pretty widespread, although due to the insane depth there are few records of his presence.
Richard Branson's next challenge : Ocean's bottom
by Ksso on April 18, 2011
Richard Branson recently introduced his latest venture : Virgin Oceanic.With Virgin Oceanic the voyage is to the last frontiers of our own Blue Planet: the very bottom of our seas.The expedition is made possible by technology breakthrough by the world’s foremost submarine designer, Graham Hawkes.
Sea cow round-up : the Dugong
by Ksso on April 18, 2011
Steve (see Steve's dives on Diveboard) who has been diving tens of times in Egypt's Red Sea told me last Friday about the Dugong, and I got absolutely fascinated by this huge mammal.The Dugong is a cousin of the Manatees and spends most of his time eating seagrass at the bottom of the sea. The Dugong and by extension the members of the Sirenians are more related to the elephants than to other marine mammals.Wikipedia tells us that the word "dugong" derives from the Tagalog term dugong which was in turn adopted from the Malay duyung, both meaning "lady of the sea." Other common local names include "sea cow," "sea pig" and "sea camel."Dugongs are found in warm coastal waters from the...
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