Santa Maria Caves Comino | 20240612

Dive #4 — Cave diving on June 23, 1991 in the Santa Maria Caves of the tiny island Comino, a sister island of Gozo | Malta.
With the experience from just 3 dives… cave diving is difficult, especially handling a camera. Visibility zero , with torches for every two people. Using a Minolta camera (waterproof 5 m) up to 7 meters deep.
Fourth dive for qualification Sub-Aqua Association (SAA) Elementary Diver – with buddy Yorick and dive master Mark Busuttil from St Andrew’s Divers Cove (SAA627) – St Simon street – Xlendi Bay – Island of Gozo | Malta .
Dive time 25 min. Total time 60 min. Max depth 15 mt. ABLJ (Adjustable Buoyancy Life Jacket), also called a horse collar jacket. Diving regulator Scubapro spider. A separate backpack or harness holds the diving cylinder , here a 15 liter steel bottle, 200 bar.

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Grotto 0riginal | Falaise #78 | 20220811


Grotto 0riginal | Falaise #78 | 20220811 | Michel van der Burg | 1-memo•com | Back in a cave at the bottom of the Ault chalk cliffs in France, April 2022. 0riginal file – no exposure editing for this edition. Yesterday’s edition apparently wasn’t considered HDR by YouTube | TakeNode ID: 43110b27-66e8-4130-8ee0-6a33a320dd59

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NEWS – Saturday Aug 13 : Today HDR is presented for this video by YouTube – it took YouTube this time 2 days for conversion (before SDR only was available for this file). – see also note 20220810 for context

Grotto | Falaise #77 | 20220810


Grotto | Falaise #77 | 20220810 | Michel van der Burg | 1-memo•com | Back in a cave at the bottom of the Ault chalk cliffs in France, April 2022. First time exposure editing HDR Rec.2020 HLG 10-bit Dolby Vision using MBP16 | TakeNode ID: 8bb03cc0-4101-477c-b552-c90418d07f86

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NEWS – Saturday Aug 13 : Today HDR is presented for this video by YouTube – it took YouTube this time 3 days for conversion (before SDR only was available for this file). – see also note 20220811 for context

Falaise #13 | Cave | 20220417

Falaise #13 | Cave | 20220417 | Michel van der Burg | 1-memo•com | Earlier this month in the Falaises d’Ault chalk cliffs in France.

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