She performed with piano accompanyment at the BSK Gala for Lower Department.
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We had a similar experience in Jordan. Road signs are not in English except on the main touist routes starting and ending at the airport. Forget in Amman.
Archive: Jordan January 13-23, 2005
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Dive 37 The Wreck of Container Barge C 4368 Taiyong
This dive deserves a separate entry. It was my first deco dive. Meaning taking an extra tank of higher oxygen level (40% vs. air which is 21%) and spending time in the shallows allowing the nitrogen accumulated at depth to come out of the body tissues safely.
The dive was spectacular. Perfect conditions. We ramped down to the wreck and the view was spectacular. From 55 meters down you could see the surface. Such a vista.
The Taiyong is a barge that was scuttled in 1997 and has been undisturbed due to the depth and that it was only recently found. It is really cool as it was a working barge, it has a large crane and it sits on teh crane at about a 45 degree angle.
Her overall length is 36m with a beam of 15m. She lies on her starboard side with the bow pointing towards the shore. The depth on her port side varies from 32m to 40m, with the tip of the derrick (crane) touching 57 m. She has an intact wheel house and a massive winch mechanism.
If you went to these depths without dual tanks and decompression gas as well it would be suicide. Plus of course you need proper training and some experience. The other thing you face when going below 30 meters is Nitrogen Narcosis which affects some people more than others. Well, it actually effects everyone, but everyone deals with it differently. I didn’t find it an obstacle, though it was there.
For more on narcosis click “more” below…
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Video of Scuba Diving Cat and Dog – Divester
Video of Scuba Diving Cat and Dog – Divester
Hard to believe, but here’s the video.
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Waterproof Wetsuits – Divester
So you can know the differnce between suits. I did my probably last dry suit dive for a while today. Now the water is warmer and I’ll switch to the wet suit.
And to end it in style, the dry suit, which uses latex rubber cuffs at the wrists, neck and has built in boots leaked on my right arm from my wrist. You wear polar fleece or other other undergarments in a dry suit to stay warm depending on the water temperature. Well fortunately the water was quite warm so I just got a wet arm. I saw the problem on the way down, it was my polar fleece sticking out of the cuff and letting water in, and fixed it.
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Jordan Vacation
Day 0.5 Wednesday, April 12
A rush out the door after work and at the airport. Well, the travel agency, DNATA booked the hotels and they took a long time to get the paperwork printed out at the airport.
I had waited until the last minute to book the hotels and as it turned out, it was a very fully booked week. So we ended up in the Aqaba Gulf Hotel, which isn’t the worst but not a top of the line hotel. Though Surya said, he likes it as they don’t treat you like you are soo special.
It was a two hour flight, full and cramped seating on Jordanian Airways. There was a meal which was OK and TV in the seatbacks. Very cramped when the person in front reclined, nearly the worst I’ve seen. Marja’s seatback TV didn’t work.
We landed and then had to buy a Jordanian Visa for 10 Jordanian Dinars (JD) each. (1 JD = 1.6 CAD) I thought the travel guidebook, “Roughguides, Jordan”, said that there might be an ATM in the arrival zone of the airport but there isn’t, there are only money changers.
There were moneychangers in the area where you buy the stamp, and fortunately I had some cash to exchange, I don’t know if they would take cash on a credit card. And luckily I had grabbed the US cash I had laying about along with the few Kuwait Dinars in the wallet which gave the 60 JD for the Visas.
Two taxis to the hotel for what they said was the regulated fare of 18.5 JD for each taxi.
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