Tag: SCUBA Diving
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Alternative Ocean Vacations
With spring now in full bloom, Summer is just around the corner, and I don’t know about you, but I just can’t wait. For many of us, Summer and, more importantly, Summer vacation is like a breath of much needed fresh air. It’s an escape, albeit a brief one, from the daily grind of financial…
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SONY XPERIA ZR is NFC-enabled, waterproof up to 5ft; PHP 25,990
What’s with SONY and waterproofing their gadgets? I’m not exactly sure where they’re headed with this, but I like it! SONY has been actively churning out waterproof gadgets across the board — from their tablets to projector-handycams and smartphones. Say hello to their newest releast, the SONY XPERIA ZR, a NFC-enabled Android phone that can…
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For Sale: Complete S90 Compact Setup for Underwater Photography
My dive buddy is selling his awesome compact UW photography setup including two Canon S90 units (dive with a spare!). This is a really good underwater setup. This set is in very good working condition. The reason for sale is he is upgrading to DSLR. Items are as follows: FIX S90 Housing with AD Adapter…
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‘Running with Sardines’ a piece I wrote for Rappler.com
Bianca Grey of Rappler asked me for a piece on my most memorable travels around the country. Hands down, it was the Sardine Run of Pescador Island in Moalboal, Cebu. MOALBOAL, Cebu City – From afar, it looked like we were floating into an underwater valley that vanished into the blue. But then I remembered…
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Hands on with the Canon Powershot S95 Underwater
The stable of cameras at Casa Fernandez include a Nikon D40 with over 10 legacy lenses, a Canon 350D used exclusively for underwater shoots and a Panasonic Lumix LX3. So as you can see it’s really impractical for this geek to go out buying more cameras. When I saw Canon’s S90 release several months ago…
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Deciding between 60mm and 100mm macro lenses for underwater photography
A Scorpion Fish sits on the Dari Laut wreck, a once floating casino. Photo taken with a 60mm macro lens (manual focus). Apologies for the backscatter — still trying to figure out how to avoid the dust particles. On the surface, there’s no question about it. A 100mm macro lens would have been an excellent…
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Where it is Humanly Possible
The term “Humanly Possible” is a redundancy. At 60 feet underwater, there is, what my colleague Prof. Richard Cruz calls a deep feeling in your gut sparked by sheer amazement with what you are experiencing. He describes it as something you feel when you see fireworks – it comes from the clenching of your gut…
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