Technical diving

it comes to wasted time your staff could be using to do their actual job instead. Unless it is specifically prohibited by local regulations, dumpster diving is legal within the United States. However, there are three ways that you could minimize the effects that divers have on your business. Protect The Dumpster Behind Fencing While dumpster diving is legal in the US, entering a fenced property to access the dumpster is not. However, if you do not wish to fence in the dumpster, it can be…

Looking back at the dock, the security of solid land gets smaller and smaller. I think of how my crew and I had to lug our gear- diving suits, flippers, goggles, BSD vests, regulators, bulky air tanks and all- onto the boat. I turn my eyes to the blue abyss ahead of me, but it is not the soft light blue-green that we find at the shallow end but the deeper, more somber blue that represents the enigma of the ocean and the journey that lies ahead of me. Then the boat stops moving and it's time…

Author, Lars Eighner, in his personal narrative essay, “On Dumpster Diving”, expresses his personal experiences from the streets, and described how the gracious art of dumpster diving carried him through a difficult time in his life. Eighner’s purpose was to enlighten our society on the repression brought upon by ourselves. He adopts a didactic tone, in order to appeal to his beliefs as a scavenger in his generalized audience, especially those who do not understand the life of a scavenger.…

Have you ever crossed with a forager who is eager to teach you something? “On Dumpster Diving” Lars Eighner talks about his experience as a forager, reflects on the lessons he learned and gives the reader a strong message. On the essay he describes his lifestyle while being homeless and relying on dumpster dive to survive. He shows that to become a good “scavenger” one must invest a lot of time, effort and practice. He mentions certain rules and tips to follow when deciding where, what, and how…

reefs deterioration (Jacksonet al. 2014). Countries popular for tourism benefit from marine sports such as snorkelling and SCUBA diving, especially as peoples interest in nature increases. However as numbers increase, what was once considered as ecotourism is now taking its toll on the marine environment (Orams 1999; Barber 2001). 1.2. Scuba Diving SCUBA diving increases interest in the marine environment and can raise public awareness of the threats (van…

tasks during diving lessons. On my fifth dive, I arrived at a dive sight called Chimney. Chimney was a sixty-foot dive with huge boulders everywhere. Magnificent, colorful marine plants covered the rocks while different patterned fish swam everywhere. Right as I headed back to be boat a hammerhead shark swam right past me. Later, when telling the other dive instructors what I saw, they were amazed and said, “I have been diving for forty years and have never seen a hammer head!” Scuba diving is…

Things to do / Activities Island Hopping in Coron Coron has some pretty amazing lagoons, surrounded by cliffs and limestones. The main attractions are the freshwater Lake Kayangan, but also the Twin Lagoon and the Barracuda Lake are equally impressive. I recommend doing island hopping to get to see all these places. Pretty much every tour operator and hotel in town can help you organizing island hopping. Tour A and B seems to cover most of the main attractions. The most photographed…

Snorkeling St. John St John is a top Caribbean snorkeling location offering an abundance of live corals and rich pelagic life. Picturesque sandy and pebble beaches beckon visitors by the breathtaking scenery of green hills and turquoise waters. Waterlemon Cay, Leinster Bay Waterlemon Cay is adored by snorkelers from all over the world and very often rated as site #1 for St John snorkeling. Leinster Bay excites visitors with its stunning landscape – mix of azure waters and green hills around.…

Scuba Diving in Tarkarli - Read before you dive By: Mansi Sharma Scuba diving is definitely the most interesting water sports of all time. It gives us the opportunity to explore the underwater species which we cannot see from outside. Ever wondered how do all those species we usually find on Discovery channel look like? Or how does it feel to really touch them or have a real look at them outside of the TV sets? This is what Scuba Diving offers; it gives you once in a lifetime experience which…

enjoy or sustain effectively. Seifert provides a riveting, sometimes overwhelming depiction of the current state of our society through the lens of dumpster diving. Dumpster diving is the process where Seifert and his friends retrieve food from dumpsters in back alleys and garbage receptacles of Los Angeles’ supermarkets. Their dumpster diving experiment highlights the massive amounts of food that are thrown away each day. The statistics he presented were unfathomable; we throw away 96…