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have any diving pictures that you would like placed in the Gallery
please
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about.
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Last updated 9th May 2004
Latest digital pictures taken 14th September 2003
Latest Digital Photos Taken March 2004
Latest Digital Photos Taken 9th May 2004
Me after
a long deco, back in the days of open circuit wreck diving This
was taken after diving the "Elyus E" a fishing trawler lying in 55metres
(180 feet) of water
of the coast of Townsville.
This
picture has a lot of meaning when you dive
deep
on air. As soon as I saw this picture I could relate immediately what its
like when you are battling a narc hit when deep on air. I can
remember one such dive hanging off the tyres at the stern of the trawler
saying to myself focus, focus, focus ;-)) I spotted
it on a web site and did some mods to it and put both Franks
and my name on the characters. The
trawler was called by mistake in the newspaper as the Dallas D. And hence
the name of the wreck at the bottom. I believe the original picture was
part of a calendar, I would
love to get a copy if anyone recognizes this picture please drop me an
email.
Pool
testing the Dolphin CCR
After
all the theory and thought it was time to do the
pool testing to see if the thing would actually work.
This consisted in swimming around the pool as fast
as I could without fins to drive up the work
effort, and at the same time working the loop
pp02 to see how it would behave. I was
extremely pleased to see it worked faultlessly, but the real workout of
course is in
the ocean.
L to
R Kerry McKenzie
Frank
Feather & Brian Nadwidny
Diving
at Lake Eacham in North Queensland, this lake is 67 meters deep and was
originally
a crater
of a volcano. It is an interesting dive with lots of native marine life
to see in the first 30 m after that its lights and lots of mud!
Franks
and my Rebreather next to Ross's twins
My dive
buddy Frank Feather's rebreather next to mine, with Ross Rockstro's twin
100's
on the
far right. We get 4-5 hours on our rebreathers regardless of depth which
is equal
to about
three sets of twins on open circuit.
Danny
Cross diving his Atlantis in Sydney Harbour
Dan
is a mate from Sydney (originally from New Orleans) who is a keen rebreather
diver when he's not running his restaurant The New Orleans Cafe, if your
in Crows Nest Sydney
you
should check it out! You cant eat, drink and talk rebreathers at the same
time :-))
Frank
Feather first time CCR in lake Eacham NQ Australia
This
worked really well but Frank was not entirely happy with the manual only
injection system I was employing at the time.
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How to
relax in the tropics after a dive.
Frank
Feather and myself relaxing after another wonderful
dive at "The Rocks".
This
is a rocky stretch of coastline off Magnetic Island 5 miles off the coast
from Townsville where I live. This spot has the biggest Queensland Grouper
I have ever seen.....I kid you not! One is around the size of a small car
and needs to be approached with a degree of caution. The only other spot
I have seen Grouper the same size or bigger is on the Yongala Wreck just
south of Townsville.
Mike Wescombe-Downs diving a Lar V1 military O2 rebreather in South Australia
Those of you out there may know Mike who designed and built the Shark Shield
This
is Ross Rockstro another buddy who dives with us.
Can
you notice something odd about this picture, look closely
and
you will see he is wearing sneakers on this particular dive.
It is
in the shark tank at the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Aquarium in Townsville.
(nice one Ross!)
Left Ken
preparing to go for a dive. Right, there's been many a good joke told around
the camp fire on these trips.
Jeff
Freeborne with the task of filling scuba tanks.
This shot is of Simon Hadwin from Sydney shown here returning from a dive. Simon owns an Atalntis and also a Buddy Inspiration being dived in photo.
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