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Red Sea liveaboard Emperor Fraser sinks

admin — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 23:07:41 +0000

On the 16th of December, Emperor Fraser hits the reef at dunraven.

Gladly nobody was injured.

Read more about it here: www.emperordivers.com

Back from the 3rd Red Sea Liveaboard

admin — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:11:42 +0000

From the 10th of November till the 17th of November I had the pleasure of being on my 3rd Liveaboard in 2008

This time we did a Sinai Classic trip. From Sharm el Sheikh, we went to Ras Mohammed, crossed Abu Nuhas, to dive the Ghiannis D and Carnatic, then back again to Thistlegorm, and the trip ended in the Strait of Tiran.

Here you can see the 5 danes doing this trip together, and Hans from Germany (the 3 other germans had left for the airport already).

From the left we have Hans, Allan, Lise, myself, Rune and Arne.
From page 2, you can see the gps tracks I logged on the trip (nearly all the trip is logges). 1 day per page.

The page is google map heavy, so might take a few moments to load. On the next trip i’ll set the log speed to less than 1 log every 5 sec, that is way to much for a boat going at 15 km/h.

Finally I dived with dolphins

admin — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 13:42:19 +0000

While doing the last minute of the safety stop, on the last dive of my June 2008 live-aboard trip, it finally did happen.

I dived with dolphins, I have snorkeled with them 4-5 times, but never did i dive with them.

It was a huge experience, a dolphin mother and her baby did circle around us 3-4 times.

Thanks to Lis and Søren for lending me the pictures.

You can see the photo’s here : Dolphins

The photo’s have not been edited in any way.

Red Sea Deep South LiveAboard June 2008

admin — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 19:55:54 +0000

Finally I got the time to go through the pictures from my Deep south liveaboard.

I hope you like them, feel free to post your comments.

The pictures can be found here: LiveAboard June 2008

Here is a few examples:

The Arch on Elphinstone

admin — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 22:12:49 +0000

The Elphinstone reef is one of the great reefs in the Red Sea.

The reef is some distance from the mainland, therefore there is a good chance to see large animals, like Sharks around the reef.
In the southern end of the reef, there is a plateau at around 40 metres of depth, what a lot of divers does not know, is that there is a tunnel going through the reef, called The Arch.

In 2006 I had the great pleasure of diving though The Arch, together with out egyptian guide Muhammed and my good diving friend Frank.

Even though the nitrogen narcosis is quite high at 55-60 metres of depth, the pleasure was great. In the middle of the arch there are 3 large stone blocks formed like coffins. The fairy tail is that there is a Pharaoh buried in one of these ‘coffins’.

In may 2008 I am going back to Elphinstone, i really hope to get a chance to dive The Arch again.

Here is a video of divers using scooters going through The Arch.

Click here to view the embedded video.