Diving with a Green turtle (Chelonia mydas) at Captain Don’s dive site , Petrie’s Pillar, Bonaire, Caribbean Netherlands, filmed using the tiny Sony DSC T1 camera, Sep 19, 2004.
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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Dive # 1 — first dive ever…June 21, 1991, Xlendi Bay – Island of Gozo | Malta. Preparing the first 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 . Shore dive in Xlendi Bay. Dive time 20 min. Total time 30 min. Max depth 6 mt. Visibility 15 mt. Water speed 0. 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 10 liter steel bottle, 200 bar. The ABLJ is predecessor to the Buoyancy Compensator Device, the BCD) the modern jacket with integrated harness for the gass cylinder.
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Short film that I made June 8, 2016 as ‘Selfie For The Sea’ for World Oceans Day. My encounter with Sara the southern Sea lion diving in the open Caribbean Sea along the coast of Curaçao (Netherlands) was filmed by Gordy Cox in 2004.
Remastered 20230907 edition of vimeo•com/169906000 posted 20160608 . @CelebrateOceans @WorldOceansDay
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Shallow Snorkel | 20230803 | Michel van der Burg | 1-memo•com | Corfu, Greece 2022 | Music : Love Is a Roller Coaster by Rafi B. Levy, Artlist | TakeNode d5bbb9d3-d444-425a-a502-1da2207d05d6
Sea Star Corfu | 20221011 | Michel van der Burg | 1-memo•com | Red sea star (Echinaster sepositus) and dreamfish (Sarpa salpa) in seagrass beds shot underwater in 360 with Insta360 ONE X2 (using dive case) in the Mediterranean sea off Corfu’s southeast coast – Ionian Sea , Greece, October 2022.
The annular sea bream (Diplodus annularis) is also swimming by. Sarpa salpa, known commonly as the dreamfish, salema, salema porgy, cow bream or goldline, is a species of sea bream known to produce hallucinogenic effects when consumed or filmed ;) TakeNode ID: ecd962c5-462b-4f6f-9fdc-692a9877b29d