2012-02-20

Arnd

Winter 2011-2012 Trip 2012-02-20

I had a good internet connection today so I ended up doing some telephone work via Skype (mainly re-booking my return flight) and then took a dive at Créole Rock; upon return to the boat I opted to do a second dive at Turtle Reef and changed lenses to the 35mm one with the two close-up diopters which entailed changing the front of the Ikelite housing, the lens port. After descending to about 20 feet I noticed that not only had I switched the lens to “manual” instead of “auto” focus (and left the setting at infinity, which didn’t work underwater) but that there were droplets of water inside the housing. Luckily it was just several drops but I’m not too sure where it came from. I disassembled the housing, dried and cleaned everything and then re-assembled it for a short dive underneath the boat at anchor. This time nothing leaked and I was going to scrape the small barnacles off the hull but my Ace Hardware scraper that I’d put into my pocket had dropped off somewhere underneath the boat and despite searching for it I couldn’t locate it and was too lazy to take off the dive gear and get my backup scraper so the barnacles (well, small barnaclettes) remained safe from me for another day.

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.