Maldives and the earthquake

Dave Appleby wrote:
> Anyone heard from PeteS? I know he was doing NZ then the Maldives.

I think he's still in NZ. His mobile is off, and there isn't any answer
from his landline. But I think he was coming back into the UK before going
out to the Maldives.

Al.

On Mon, 03 Jan 2005 17:14:45 +0000, Alasdair Allan wrote:

> I think he's still in NZ. His mobile is off, and there isn't any answer
> from his landline. But I think he was coming back into the UK before going
> out to the Maldives.

But he always goes to Vakarufahli anyway, and that island was unaffected
and is operating as normal.

Jason

--
http://www.scuba-addict.co.uk/ for Maldivian trip reports including Kuredu,
Fesdu, Meedhupparu, Ranveli, Summer Island Village and Velidhu

In message <337mdtF3shal4U1@individual.net>, CAS
<calumscottREMOVETHISBIT@yahoo.com> writes
>I've got rellies out there at the mo - if anyone finds any news about the
>state of the islands can you let me know.
>
>Cheers
>
>CAS

Further to that, anyone know of Veligandu's fate? Did my OWD there last
summer. Keen to find out if the island/folks survived.
--
Ernie

On Mon, 03 Jan 2005 17:32:58 +0000, Jason
<jason.news.nospam@ntlworld.com> wrote:

>On Mon, 03 Jan 2005 17:14:45 +0000, Alasdair Allan wrote:
>
>> I think he's still in NZ. His mobile is off, and there isn't any answer
>> from his landline. But I think he was coming back into the UK before going
>> out to the Maldives.
>
>But he always goes to Vakarufahli anyway, and that island was unaffected
>and is operating as normal.
>
Hi Guys,

As Mark Twain once said "The rumours of my death have been greatly
exagerated"

I'll try harder next time.

We were in NZ from Dec 10 till about 3 hours ago. I am NEVER EVER,
flying via LAX again. Fingerprinted and photographed. You should have
heard the cat-calling from the queue when the computer network at LAX
crashed. They only just security cleared (sorry, I mean treated us
like criminals) us in time to go into the transit lounge in time for
us to get back on he same plane to continue the journey. Twats. I
really must get a T shirt with "I am un-American" written across it.
And what happens if you tick the box on the immigration form stating
that you have been guilty of "Moral Turpitude", whatever that is......
And is Immoral Turpitude worse?

The next journey(s) will be done on Emirates via Dubai and Brisbane.

However, on the positive side, the NZ natives are friendly, we now own
a property in Hawera near Mount Taranaki (The Mountain by the Sea),
and start a job out there in March, where I will be 10% of the
Inspiration divers in NZ. The RMS Niagra is calling me..... I'm told
it's bigger than the Lusi......

And in the mean time, I'll be in Maldives for February, as Jason
correctly pointed out, in Vakarufahli. Where there are already 2 J's
of O2 and Sofnolime waiting..... It's a hard life, but someone needs
to do it.

TTFN

Pete S.
Pete S.

www.derwentelec.clara.co.uk

On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 15:53:04 -0000, "CAS"
<calumscottREMOVETHISBIT@yahoo.com> wrote:

>> And in the mean time, I'll be in Maldives for February, as Jason
>> correctly pointed out, in Vakarufahli. Where there are already 2 J's
>> of O2 and Sofnolime waiting..... It's a hard life, but someone needs
>> to do it.
>
>Harumph!
>
>..it rhymes with "mastered"...
>
Oh. Was it something I said?


Pete S.

www.derwentelec.clara.co.uk

>>> And in the mean time, I'll be in Maldives for February, as Jason
>>> correctly pointed out, in Vakarufahli. Where there are already 2 J's
>>> of O2 and Sofnolime waiting..... It's a hard life, but someone needs
>>> to do it.
>>
>>Harumph!
>>
>>..it rhymes with "mastered"...
>>
> Oh. Was it something I said?

Yes!

"And in the mean time, I'll be in Maldives for February, as Jason correctly
pointed out, in Vakarufahli. Where there are already 2 J's of O2 and
Sofnolime waiting..... It's a hard life, but someone needs to do it."

That!

Have a cracking time you lucky sod!

CAS

>As Mark Twain once said "The rumours of my death have been greatly
>exagerated"
>
Hurrah! :D

Glad to hear you are safe and sound matey.

>However, on the positive side, the NZ natives are friendly, we now own
>a property in Hawera near Mount Taranaki (The Mountain by the Sea),
>and start a job out there in March, where I will be 10% of the
>Inspiration divers in NZ. The RMS Niagra is calling me..... I'm told
>it's bigger than the Lusi......
>
Excellent news! a 10% chance of a cheap NZ holiday then ;)

rich

"rich" <rich@nospam.co.uk> wrote in message
news:j1l8u0lu9f5tfdsep8k619s6vplfajuvoh@4ax.com...
> >As Mark Twain once said "The rumours of my death have been greatly
>>exagerated"
>>
> Hurrah! :D
>
> Glad to hear you are safe and sound matey.
>
>>However, on the positive side, the NZ natives are friendly, we now own
>>a property in Hawera near Mount Taranaki (The Mountain by the Sea),
>>and start a job out there in March, where I will be 10% of the
>>Inspiration divers in NZ. The RMS Niagra is calling me..... I'm told
>>it's bigger than the Lusi......
>>
> Excellent news! a 10% chance of a cheap NZ holiday then ;)

Sounds an interesting dive. There's a writeup of it at
http://divenewzealand.com/articles.asp?sid=54

On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 22:37:23 GMT, rich <rich@nospam.co.uk> wrote:

>>As Mark Twain once said "The rumours of my death have been greatly
>>exagerated"
>>
>Hurrah! :D
>
>Glad to hear you are safe and sound matey.
>
>>However, on the positive side, the NZ natives are friendly, we now own
>>a property in Hawera near Mount Taranaki (The Mountain by the Sea),
>>and start a job out there in March, where I will be 10% of the
>>Inspiration divers in NZ. The RMS Niagra is calling me..... I'm told
>>it's bigger than the Lusi......
>>
>Excellent news! a 10% chance of a cheap NZ holiday then ;)
>
Which 10% of the holiday did you want to be cheap?

Petrol is cheap. $1.12 per litre with an exchange rate of $2.71/£1.
That's 41pence/litre for the hard of sums.

Houses are cheap.

Helium is expensive. $800 for a J....... 4 times the cost in the
UK.That'll sort out the OC boys, ha ha ha ha ha.

Sofno is expensive. $16/kg. Oh well, can't have it all our own way.

Pete S.

www.derwentelec.clara.co.uk

>>>However, on the positive side, the NZ natives are friendly, we now own
>>>a property in Hawera near Mount Taranaki (The Mountain by the Sea),
>>>and start a job out there in March, where I will be 10% of the
>>>Inspiration divers in NZ. The RMS Niagra is calling me..... I'm told
>>>it's bigger than the Lusi......
>>>
>>Excellent news! a 10% chance of a cheap NZ holiday then ;)
>>
>Which 10% of the holiday did you want to be cheap?
>
The most expensive 10%? :)