2012-02-04

Arnd

Winter 2011-2012 Trip 2012-02-04

The night was a long one again, when the wind died down at about 3am the boat was sideways to the waves part of the time and I had to get up, turn on the lights, and store things in the salon so that they wouldn’t bang and roll around. In the morning I decided to make it a diving day, with two trips to the little island called Île Créole in order to practice my bouyancy control and picture taking at easy depths of 10-20 feet. The pictures below show the results from two dives – each lasting an hour and with 2000 out of 3000 psi remaining in the tanks, I only stoped the dives when I realized that I was getting a bit chilled.
Filling the tanks went quickly and without effort, I ran the genset to make water, heat the water reservoir for a hot shower, boil some edamame on the stovetop, do a load in the dishwasher and charge the batteries while running the Bauer compressor.

Original hosting provider breaks my old website

My old hosting company, who will remain unnamed although their name starts with “go” and the end rhymes with “baddy”, changed their software with little notice and the original SV-ZANSHIN.COM site stopped working overnight.

Every. Single. Page.

So I’ve transitioned to another provider. These original pages have been migrated, but all the formatting and other features are gone and the will still contain numerous display issues and formatting anomalies.

The manual effort of conversion is too much and not worth the effort involved. Over 1000 blog diary pages like this one are going to remain in this condition. The pictures are full-scale, but won’t expand when clicked. But you can can copy them to view them in their original splendour.