The important guests have arrived and left again; over a weeks of intense preparations, two days of stressed out diving and being on our best behavior… phew! And as usual I was too lazy to make the extra effort and use my new freediving wetsuit instead of my old scuba wetsuit so I got a [...]
I recently whinged about my camera not working properly due to me being an idiot and dropping it on the floor. It basically will not focus on anything closer than one meter from the lens. Underwater photography without a proper external flash is pretty much all about macro, up close and personal, and if my [...]
Ten years ago I spent six months in Honduras, working as a Divemaster, on an island called Utila which is part of the Bay Islands, part of the worlds second largest barrier reef. Awesome diving. Anyway, during my visit there was already another Divemaster called Andy so I was named Swedish Andy, on the big [...]
Right, so it was a few days ago I commented on the fact that I was looking forward to taking more underwater photos, and me trying to become a better photographer. Well, that same evening I dropped my compact camera and now it doesn’t want to focus closer than about a meter away from the [...]
I’d love to be able to call myself a photographer, sadly I don’t think I can claim that prestigious title yet, specially after hanging out with my current housemate Jussi when he’s been taking photos of Kasai and hurrying around talking about ‘soft light’ and similar topics. For Christmas I bought myself an underwater house [...]
I’ve still got one. It’s very annoying. After my little accident in December I got a pretty bad fever which my friend Louise helped me conquer, not sure I would have survived it without her! I’ve also got a little cough that all people around me keep reminding me is quite annoying. Either way, I’ve [...]
The resort I’m working for, Kasai Village, is going to start offering liveaboard trips around Cebu Island in March and today the staff from Kasai and owners of the boat went out for a maiden voyage together. The boat, Queen X, is a 100ft banca boat, about 30m. Pretty much all boats in the Philippines [...]
We’re about to perform a diver rescue training exercise in a little while, I’m supposed to be the beefcake and collect all equipment that will be dumped once the diver is being brought up and taken back to shore. The exercise is for our current Divemaster student, Louise! The problem with rescue exercises is other [...]
Right now it’s the day before christmas eve and I’m currently sitting next to the compressor filling tanks. Since I’m slightly handicapped due to my knee wanting to do the twist and shout I’m stuck in the compressor room… There’s quite a few guests around now and the other staff are busy diving. So I [...]
I’ve now reached my first target for freediving; on Saturday I finally got to 30m! I’ve been struggling a bit to get beyond 20m but this time everything just worked as planned. Jussi and me went out to do some deep-dive training and I started off with 10m, then very easily 20m so I thought [...]