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Month: July 2008
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Livescribe Digital Pen
This is very cool. It may be the choice item when I have to do meetings and take minutes!
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Brits Invited to Move to Alberta
I heard this on the CBC The Current Podcast and a link to the file is here. They interview Heather Mallik who writes an acerbic column for the Globe and Mail in Canada and also writes for th Guardian.
From the Guardian newspaper an article by Heather Mallick
Come to Canada! But only if you’ve got a job
Stories of Canada looking to poach British citizens are wildly exaggerated. We’re only interested in professionals who can help us dig up oil -
Monday and Tuesday Diving and Dinners
Monday was a tired day as I was too tired after not enough sleep last night because we stayed late to end of soccer match, which went overtime and penalty kicks!
I was concerned that gas would be a big expense but it isn’t too bad and the car is quite easy on gas. The gas prices are in Euros.
It was tricky though figuring out how to actually get the gas. You have to put in cash into this machine and key in the pump number.
Tuesday’s dives went well.
Dinner in Larnaca was at a restaurant practically across the street from where I was staying.
They even put french fries inside the gyro sandwich. And you can get pork. I’m not a huge pork eater but I had it as why not, I can’t get it in Kuwait!
The juice is great. Apple and Guava! I found out on the last day too that you can get fresh pomegranate juice which is great. Cyprus has a great variety of local fruit and vegetables.
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Sunday Dinner in Dhali
After the diving and some rest I went for dinner with friends to a village Dhali midway to Nicosia. It is only a 20 minute drive from Larnaca as everything is close in Cyprus and the traffic isn’t too heavy. Dhali is located near Idaliam, a historic center of the cult of Aphrodite and of the Helleno-Phoenician deity Resheph–Apollo.
The dinner was a partly traditional meal of sausages. Dinner was at the Bonanza Bar and Grill named for the TV series.
We stayed late and watched the end of the Euro football match which went into overtime and free kicks. I don’t remember who played.
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Sunday’s Recreational Dive on the Zenobia at Larnaca
The diving was from Captain Paris Eleftheriou’s boat, the M/Y Kaith II.
The boat’s scheduled 9:00 a.m. start ended up a bit later with the last minute things, getting peoples gear organized etc. but the anchoring point over the Zenobia is only 1.4 km from harbor so there is lots of time.
I used my wife’s Suunto Mosquito dive computer as on the previous day I had experimented with my Suunto D9 in Gauge Mode but forgot that once used in Gauge mode it locks you out of using it as a regular decompression dive computer for 48 hours after your last dive. In the future I’ll stick with using it as a regular dive computer!
The water was comfortable on the surface at 23 degrees with a thermocline at 20 meters dropping the temperature to 19 degrees. The visibility is at least 20 meters and you can see the outline of the wreck which starts 18 meters down from the surface. There is a tourist glass bottom boat that goes out to the wreck also and a submarine but the submarine wasn’t operating.
The Zenobia is on its side on the bottom. The bottom is 40 meters down. When it sank all the cargo and trucks slid down to the bottom with a few things still hanging by the chains.
We went down and through the main cargo bay, there were semi-trailers (articulated lorries in British English) littering the bottom. Quite a sight. Once in this cargo bay you can see the light at the exit as you swim through though it is quite dark inside. It is a huge area, end to end must be 50 meters long and nearly 15 meters high. It is a tight squeeze getting out, but I didn’t have much problem, some people do.
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This video gives some good shots of the wreck. I did not penetrate inside like they do. That is a whole different kind of diving.