Divers who like to take photos and videos

Damn pesky varmit foreigners - I think we should invade Japan, Poland
and Italy once and for all and teach em how the good ole boys dive.


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Jo,
Glad you feel better. Buoyancy control and consideration of the reef take
time for some folks to develop. Some never do. Some do 15 dives, become
"bored" and take up photography. Sigh... Solution: go where others don't
and dive by yourself. Look and wonder and take cool pics if you are
inclined. Let the cattle boats destroy the "popular" reefs. You can't
change the world, but you can take control of your responses (to irritating
stimuli) and have fun. Live long and prosper.

--
Rapid Rick
"Just dive, baby"

"And you snatch your rattling last breaths, with deep sea diver sounds, and
the flowers bloom like madness in the spring."
"Jimini" <jimini@telus.net> wrote in message
news:EQcgc.42135$dg7.11860@edtnps84...
> Just had to get this off my chest...
>
> Recently returned from 1 week in Layang Layang and 1 week in Sipadan Water
> Village. During the week at Layang Layang I was "fortunate" (and I use
the
> term very, very loosely) enough to dive with a group of Italian divers who
> claimed to be a "Photographic Society", all male. I have never seen so
many
> overweighted, destructive, selfish divers in my life. These guys were
only
> interested in getting the shots they wanted and to hell with the rest of
the
> reef. On the first day I was "lucky" enough to witness wanton reef
> destruction, the group's apparent leader actually kicked a ball of hard
> coral the size of a basketball off it's stem. When I asked the DM about
the
> group, he said he had already spoken with them (obviously to no avail). I
> couldn't hold my tongue and told the reef-kicker what I had witnessed and
he
> had the audacity to deny he did it. The next day, he actually was walking
> on a plate coral to catch his footing while filming something else.
Later,
> I overheard one of the other men say that no one owns the reef so it
> shouldn't matter what happens to it. What an obviously selfish attitude!
I
> was so distraught from what I witnessed, I couldn't watch anymore and
spent
> the rest of the week avoiding the Italian men as much as possible. I am
> sorely disppointed in male Italian underwater photographers if they are
all
> like this mob!
>
> During the week at Sipadan Water Village, I witnessed two other divers who
> spent inordinately long periods of time photographing small fish/animals
> (macro) only to rise from their position and fin so hard to get away that
> whatever they had photographed would probably have been washed away in the
> wake. In these instances, one was a Polish man and the other was a
Japanese
> man.
>
> One bright spot was seeing other photographers and videophiles who had
> superb buoyancy control and were very gentle with the wildlife in Sipdan
and
> Mabul. These were all Americans.
>
> I was considering taking up underwater photography but have now decided
that
> I'd rather see what I can before it's completely destroyed by the
> overweighted and inept divers who only care about what their friends will
> say about their precious photographs.
>
> I feel better now...
>
> Jo
>
>
>

On Fri, 6 Aug 2004 00:30:20 -0500, "Raider Rick"
<okidiver@ifspamyousuckcox.net> wrote:

>Jo,
>Glad you feel better. Buoyancy control and consideration of the reef take
>time for some folks to develop. Some never do. Some do 15 dives, become
>"bored" and take up photography. Sigh... Solution: go where others don't
>and dive by yourself. Look and wonder and take cool pics if you are
>inclined. Let the cattle boats destroy the "popular" reefs. You can't
>change the world, but you can take control of your responses (to irritating
>stimuli) and have fun. Live long and prosper.

Isn't this thread 2 or more months old? Are you just now catching up
with May?

--
dillon

When I was a kid, I thought the angel's name was Hark
and the horse's name was Bob.

Dillon Pyron wrote:
> On Fri, 6 Aug 2004 00:30:20 -0500, "Raider Rick"
> <okidiver@ifspamyousuckcox.net> wrote:
>
>
>>Jo,
>>Glad you feel better. Buoyancy control and consideration of the reef take
>>time for some folks to develop. Some never do. Some do 15 dives, become
>>"bored" and take up photography. Sigh... Solution: go where others don't
>>and dive by yourself. Look and wonder and take cool pics if you are
>>inclined. Let the cattle boats destroy the "popular" reefs. You can't
>>change the world, but you can take control of your responses (to irritating
>>stimuli) and have fun. Live long and prosper.
>
>
> Isn't this thread 2 or more months old? Are you just now catching up
> with May?
>

Some of us have been busy Dillon. Chill.

--
jer email reply - I am not a 'ten'
"All that we do is touched with ocean, yet we remain on the shore of
what we know." -- Richard Wilbur

Dillon Pyron <dmpyronINVALID@austin.rr.com> pounded away at his
keyboard resulting in:
:Isn't this thread 2 or more months old? Are you just now catching up
:with May?

In some newsgroups, that would be considered stalking.

Dan Bracuk
If at first you don't succeed, you run the risk of failure.
The Best of rec.scuba http://www.pathcom.com/~bracuk/RecScuba/


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