From the depths…

November 2006

On [and off] the grid


This site has been hosted on mediatemple for well over a year now. (I can’t even remember the name of the old hosting company, but suffice it to say that service was random at best.)

Mediatemple recently released a new product (gs) Grid-Server, replacing their shared server offering. As a dedicated early adopter, I switched within a couple of weeks.

Posted to freeflow on Nov 18 · Continue reading…

Vilivaru's natural beauty destroyed

Vilivaru after

It seems Vilivaru’s natural charms don’t generate enough profit, for the owners have seen fit recently to start a land reclamation project that destroys the island’s character and no doubt trashes the environment in the process.

Reclamation completed to the north of the house reef and the reeftop scraped bare to the south, presumably in readiness for a further reclamation…

Posted to freeflow on Nov 15 · Continue reading…

Octopus periscope

At a site named Spiral Corner in Wakatobi, one of our fellow divers, Eva, discovered an octopus that apparently made his home in a small coral head covered by leather corals.

We watched him a good while, an he in turn watched us. Eventually, he decided it was time to up periscope, as you can see in the video…

Posted to videos on Nov 12 · Continue reading…

Podcasting from the depths

DiveFilm PodCast Video

I can’t quite recall where I stumbled across DiveFilm PodCast Video, but I must admit that I hadn’t quite expected ever to find an underwater video podcast.

It seems that Divefilm.com has been up and running for some years, presenting some fantastic quality footage by some of the best underwater videographers around…

Posted to freeflow on Nov 08 · Continue reading…

Photoshopped Whaleshark

Whaleshark before and after

Here’s the result of following Saeed Rashid’s Photoshop tutorial on fixing up underwater photos. This is the before and after on Alice’s favourite shot from the Maldives.

Posted to freeflow on Nov 04 · Continue reading…

Virtual Whaleshark tracking

Whaleshark in Google Earth

A timely follow-up on the subject of computer mapping: Google have released a beta of Google Earth 4. If you haven’t tried Google Earth, you seriously must: it’s one of the best web-enabled applications you can buy (except it’s free, of course!).

Among the new features is support for time stamps: that means that the application can display geographic data over time…

Posted to freeflow on Nov 03 · Continue reading…