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Primary Contributors Christopher Bartlett Andre Crone Nuno Gomes Fiona McIntoch David Caravias Barry Coleman Peter Pinnock Gerrit Maritz 3 OZDiver Magazine www.ozdiver.com.au July / September 2019 4 COVER PHOTO CONTENTS Andre Crone Regulars Through the Lens 3 – Editor’s Deco 89 – Photo Competition 4– The Team 93 – Photo School 95 – Editing School Letters 7 – Log Book Giant Stride Dive the Continent 99 – Humboldt 9 – OZ News Squids 15 –OZTek Technically Speaking Weird and Wonders 119 – Ginnie Springs 31 – Camouflage 123 – PPO2 33 – Currents 37 – Alien Invasion Part II Instructor Diaries 127 – Urinating Under Dive Med Water 39 –Respiratory Infections Gear Talk Dive the Globe 129 – Oxygen Masks 41 – Global News 135 – Book Reviews 47 – Malta 63 – Shark Diving Safety Stop 140 – Funnies Exploration 79 – Iceland Dive Operators Johan Boshoff Johan 143 – Listings OZTek - Pg 15 Malta - Pg 47 Shark Diving - Pg 63 Iceland - Pg 79 FEATURE FEATURE FEATURE FEATURE 5 OZDiver Magazine www.ozdiver.com.au July / September 2019 6 Letters Letters Log Book Log Book and I knew this was it…my training took can’t really believe anything they tell over again and with a mighty heave I you as sitting in that hot sun bobbing up got hold of the guide ropes on the boat and down the entire day does strange and pulled myself on to the vessel, things to people. muscles bulging and fins thrashing the water to a maelstrom – I was safe, and Well Mom, that’s just a taste of my so were my divers – my cunning dash exiting life as a Diving Instructor. Don’t leading danger away from them. worry too much about me though as I have been well trained and my senses The strange looks I got from the divers are razor sharp – I am practically an when they surfaced must have been animal of the deep. I have to go now as because they didn’t really know how to my bank manager has been calling. He thank me. must want to do his diving course badly as I have seven missed calls from him. The skipper did mumble, while he was Business is good! patching the pontoon where my knife By Peter Herbs Photo Christopher Bartlett Herbs Photo Christopher By Peter barely scratched the surface, that he Only one thing still bothers me when had never seen a diver climb on board recounting this experience – why did with full gear – only a finely honed diver you plant that new azalea bush so late can do that – he also apparently only that night? saw a very small whale shark close to the boat. More about diving later. Your Loving son, The thing with these skippers is that you The Dive Instructor. Dear Mom, is exactly what they were gonna get! Protection! Me again. I still haven’t got the car back, must be something seriously Mom, you’ve always said that your sons wrong for them to take so long with the run to danger, not away from it. I went service. into overdrive, my feet thrashing as I accelerated, whorls of cloudy sand Well Mom, as I was saying, there I chasing me like small dust devils. My was dodging the dangers of the deep, plan was working – the shark turned keeping an eagle eye out for my divers, and started chasing me. buoyancy perfect, breathing rate slow, hands flapping in unison – a study in Of course, by this time it had to play diving perfection – when suddenly a catch up as I was by now quite far menacing black shape appeared in the away from the group and going to the blue haze and the primeval fear of every surface, knowing that sharks don’t like human that ever walked this earth was sunlight. This is of course known by only realised… shark! a select few… This is what I’ve trained for! Honed The shark ignored the divers, swimming myself with hours spent in the pool right past them and coming straight for Send your letter to us and win drawing and sheathing my knife, the me. I was leading it up and away, my heavy duty titanium blade glistening divers were safe but I was not out of a Marine Life Species Guide dully in the pool lights as I was danger yet. practicing this exact scenario over and Here is a chance to be heard! If you have anything that you would like to share with OZDiver over, slashing and stabbing, parrying As it got closer the giant jaws gaped – Magazine and other divers, send an email to Log Book at [email protected]. Remember that and thrusting. These divers came to all I could see was a cavernous mouth letters have more impact when they are short and sweet. We have the right to edit and shorten me for training and protection and this letters. In every issue, the winning letter will receive a Marine Life Species Guide. 7 OZDiver Magazine www.ozdiver.com.au July / September 2019 8 Dive the Dive the Continent Continent OZ News OZ News Mares SSI proudly welcomes Michael Aw as a new international Ambassador Internationally acclaimed wildlife photographer, explorer and conservationist OZ NEWS Michael Aw has become the new Mares SSI Ambassador. Author of 37 books about the ocean, his essays and pictures have been published in BBC Wildlife, GEO, National Geographic, The Smithsonian, Nature, Ocean PADI Awards Medal of Valor to Geographic, Asian Geographic, Nature Focus, The Times, and Discovery to name Australian Divers Instrumental in a few. His accolades include winning more than 67 international photographic awards Thailand Cave Rescue and being named as one of the world’s most influential nature photographers by Outdoor Photographer. Sydney, Australia – 7 June 2019 – Australian rescue divers instrumental in the rescue of 12 boys and their soccer coach from a flooded cave in Thailand in mid-2018 were Since 2010, Michael has been the project director of the Elysium Epic presented with the PADI Medal of Valor. Dr. Richard Harris and Dr. Craig Challen, 2018 Australian of the Year recipients, accepted the PADI Medal of Valor at the PADI Asia expeditions.