[ripthedrift]

nice pics dude

what part of the red sea was you in ? I ran a small dive club there in 77 nothing there but palm huts an a bar called the crazy camel in dahab which my girl ran .....not a single bit of concrete between Sharma and Eilat

did you get down the blue hole that some freaky shit of a dive .. you swim out over the coral only 2 feet deep then all a sudden over that deep blue hole ..shame I can't dive any more but can snorkel OK still (HOPES)

I dived a lot, enough to give me great memory's


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E2A We lost 2 Germans down the hole .. 6 days before we found them ... never new why or how ....

[BigSilverRizla]

ripthedrift, on 29 June 2011 - 09:54 PM, said:

E2A We lost 2 Germans down the hole .. 6 days before we found them ... never new why or how ....

As if, 6 days before for you found their dead bodies?

BSR

[ripthedrift]

BigSilverRizla, on 29 June 2011 - 10:06 PM, said:

ripthedrift, on 29 June 2011 - 09:54 PM, said:

E2A We lost 2 Germans down the hole .. 6 days before we found them ... never new why or how ....

As if, 6 days before for you found their dead bodies?

BSR

yeah six days found them up a gully both dead ... I think they lost there way after losing the guide ropes but not sure .....very sad ... both nice lads with loads of good diving skills ...

[BigSilverRizla]

ripthedrift, on 29 June 2011 - 10:16 PM, said:

yeah six days found them up a gully both dead ... I think they lost there way after losing the guide ropes but not sure .....very sad ... both nice lads with loads of good diving skills ...

Man thats proper grim. I love diving but i dont think you'd catch me going down a hole in the bed or shipwrecks, freak me out those things
Shame i missed an opportunity to go diving in the carribean because it was so damn expensive. Nearly £150 for a single tank dive.

BSR

This post has been edited by BigSilverRizla: 29 June 2011 - 11:35 PM

[~nobody~]

ripthedrift, on 29 June 2011 - 09:54 PM, said:

shame I can't dive any more but can snorkel OK still (HOPES)

How come? Officially I can't any more but went on holiday with the mrs to the Maldives and quickly thought 'fuck this'. Apart from the idea of missing out on such great diving I'd have gone fucking mental sitting on the beach on an island that was about 500m x 200m for two weeks.

Never took any underwater pics but did get these;

[ripthedrift]

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How come? Officially I can't any more but went on holiday with the mrs to the Maldives and quickly thought 'fuck this'. Apart from the idea of missing out on such great diving I'd have gone fucking mental sitting on the beach on an island that was about 500m x 200m for two weeks.

last op I had I got septicemia, one of many things was an infection of the lungs weeping in to my chest cavity ..chest drain for ages ... one lung is fecked really .. but now I'm better or as good as I'M gonna be ...might chance me arm when I head of for Xmas down under ...

looks like a black tip reef shark....nice pics dude

[~nobody~]

ripthedrift, on 30 June 2011 - 12:09 AM, said:

looks like a black tip reef shark....nice pics dude

'sonly about 2 foot long though. The juveniles were everywhere in the shallows practising hunting in the schools of small fry.

Yeah I've technically got a chest condition. I've had regular lung function test and chest x-rays for the last ten years and they're actually in perfectly normal working order but a doc can't give me a fit to dive certification and so my insurance would be invalid if anything happened (if my condition caused any complications that is, hopefully it wouldn't and they'd never realise anyway). I just did a few easy dives to begin with and figured that if I started to feel iffy at any point I'd make my excuses but it was all good.

[ripthedrift]

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but a doc can't give me a fit to dive certification and so my insurance would be invalid if anything happened

same here ... but the more I think about it

[persuit-of-potancy]

only been on a few dives but it's my favorite thing to do
cant wait for the next oppertunity

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[Riserto]

ah my favourite sea creatures ... beautiful pictures... those octopus look beautiful .

Thanks for the upload

Riserto...

[Raineh]

Necro I know, but going to sharm on 19th dec for 7 days.

Never dived, going for the smoke and the history.

But youve intrigued me sir, I do have a phobia of the sea,
well the unknown really.

But I keep trying to gee myself up for a few refresher swimming lessons
and a few diving ones in a local pool as to not miss out.

But yeah nice pics, loverly.

[madgiz]

As I am off again on another underwater adventure as of Monday I thought I would just have a quick trip down memory lane and read through my own thread and I tell you what it has got me excited..

Apparently it is back to the old days diving in Egypt since the uprising and all the bucket and spade tourists have fecked off..

No more fish feeding snorkellers or over crowded glass bottom boats invading my space..

More pics to follow..

This post has been edited by madgiz: 14 July 2012 - 10:00 PM

[snatch]

enjoy ya holiday mate

a need to get away meself at some point not bin out off this country for 10 years

[Saddam]

Looking forward to seeing your new pictures m8, hoping you're both having a fantastic holiday.