Tag: underwater
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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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Underwater Dispatches: Sombrero Island in Wide Angle
After five months of not getting my much needed #VitaminSEA, I was able to tag along with two friends on a day trip to Sombrero Island. We did a total of three dives on Saturday and although I’ve had the RX100 for more than two years, this was the first time I actually went all-out…
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Underwater Photography: Rhinopias, Mariona, and Pygmy Seahorse
Two dives, 202 photos and over 140 minutes of bottom time. Sharing three shots (out of 202!!) from the weekend dive. We kicked off from Anilao PHOTO Hotel with Ivan Manzanares. Not only is he a spotter, he’s adept with a camera so he helped jog back my understanding of shooting with a P&S from…
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Video: The Coral Garden
If I were to summarize the Anilao experience into one dive site, it would have to be an area called Batok, a rich reef located right behind Sombrero Island. Huge barrel sponges seascapes with the divine hand, flat table corals lined with hovering juveniles and fry and fan corals that pipe the currents like wind.…
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Hands on: GoPro HERO2 with Patima Underwater Housing (up to 660 feet); PHP 15,000.00
Hello there. This is a review of two gadgets: the GoPro HERO2 and the Patima Case for GoPro Hero cameras. Watch the (short) video below to see it in action. This footage was taken near Secret Bay, Anilao.
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Underwater with the Samsung Galaxy Note (by Jun Lao)
As water geeks, we tend to want to find creative ways of bringing our gadgets underwater. Take for instance the iPod nano underwater solution with H20 Audio. Yesterday, dive buddy (and awesome UW photographer) Jun Lao tagged me in a Facebook photo he took in Anilao of a submerged Samsung Galaxy Note made waterproof with…
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Underwater Prenup Photo Shoot
My friend and dive instructor, Jan Acosta, recently got married to his long time dive buddy + girlfriend Jules. And what better way to prepare for taking the plunge into marriage than actually taking a real plunge into an underwater prenup shoot for their wedding! The bride and the groom are seasoned divers but we…
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There is signal underwater! Hands on with the Patima iPhone 4s UW Housing
UPDATE For a more affordable iPhone 4/4s casing, check out the iDive Site case for only PHP 5,999.00 Photo above: That’s me, doing extreme camwhoring! Shot by Boogs Rosales. EDIT 3: Have a look at the new Patima housing for the GoPro HERO / HERO2 EDIT 2: Instead of hardware, iOS 5.1 users can download…
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Take your iPhone 4s underwater (up to 300 meters!!!) with Patima
Ed’s Note: Want to see the Samsung Galaxy Note underwater? Check it out! As a guys who likes to take photos underwater, I tend to keep my choice of camera brands within the confines of the “1-Way Test” … which simply begs the question “Can I take it underwater?” So I’m more inclined to invest…
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A Primer on Biodiversity — Please Come!
On Wednesdays, we dive with Manta Rays (Taken in Tubbataha, 2011) “I was born a century too early. I’ll never travel to outer space.” My greatest regret was something I had no control over. And that’s why I decided to take up SCUBA. In essence, it’s pretty much follows the same principle: you float around…
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