The regulator the diver is breathing from was manufactured in late seventies or early eighties. The piston first stage is of a very good quality, but unfortunately the yoke is too narrow for contemporary pillar valves that combine INT with DIN. It cannot be used with them. However, the second stage has a standard hose […]
In most cases when I need a picture of a scuba diver, I make a selfie. I would prefer to use somebody else as the model, but it’s not often possible. Quite often I dive alone. When I have a buddy, he/she is a regular buddy, not a model. I often chase her/him during the […]
It happened to me a couple of times: wearing a sidemount harness I was walking to the beach carrying my single tank on my shoulder. A diver ask me if I was a technical diver. The question caused a smile on my face. No, I was not a technical diver. I was even not going […]
Another picture of my friend Konstantin. We were diving off Matheson Bay in Leigh that day. It was a long swim to get out of the bay, but those walls were worth it. Underwater “climbing” is so easy, one deep breath and you are climbing up. You breath out and you’re climbing down. You can […]
My friend Konstantin partially hidden in brown seaweeds. I use the word “seaweeds” because it is commonly used for this kind of water plants, but they are actually kelp. I’ve made this picture just out of Matheson Bay in Leigh on the left side of the beach. We swam through the narrow channel between the […]
Some time ago I urgently needed a second stage for my regulator. I din’t want to spend much on it as it was supposed to be only a temporary solution. So I decided to buy the cheapest thing I could find on the local NZ on-line auction website. I purchased a regulator made in the […]