Ok boys and girls... me and Bebecca (and baby) are going 4 days in a little trip with some diving included.

Be good and do not destroy the blog while I'm away.

During those days no support will be given. I have a non-computer holidays.... can't wait!!!

Ok, is funny... I have to confess... I run MydivingLife.com and guess what? I haven't dive in almost 2 months... gosh... bad bad...

Anyway, Bebecca, in a lovely gesture, is inviting me to Dive before the baby arrives in 8 weeks... gosh!!! I can't wait to meet my furute little Divemaster!

Well we are going here.

This will be my first serious dive in Australia. I did a few dives (with SEALS) here in Victoria in the middle of the winter. Was bloody cold - 10 degrees with only my poor Red Sea 5m wetsuit.

Hopefully this time will be warmer.

Anyway, I'm diving with this guys:

http://www.merimbuladiverslodge.com.au

And I can choose any of this 2 dive sites:

Classic Boat Dives...
The Tugs are two ships which were made 'diver safe' and scuttled in 1987.

The Tasman Hauler
Sitting upright in 30m of water, it is easily penetrated. The wreck is covered in colourful sponges and jewelled anemones. Ideal for Wreck, Deep and Photography Courses.

The Henry Bolte
Sitting in 24m of water, the superstructure has collapsed to one side. this wreck has attracted a large variety of schooling fish. The depth allows for longer dives, which makes it perfect for a first wreck dive.

The Empire Gladstone
Wrecked on the night of September 5th 1950 the ship measured 135 metres long and weighed over 7000 tonnes. She now lies in 10 metres of water just off Merimbula. Though mostly collapsed you are still able to swim through the drive shaft passage and explore around the wreckage which has turned into a spectacular artificial reef attracting a prolific and diverse amount of marine life.

Short Point Bommie
An excellent reef dive out of Merimbula. A short boat ride of only 15 minutes. This bommie is a mass with schools of fish, Port Jackson sharks and walls of mussells. Starting at approx. 5m in depth down to a maximum of 20m.

The Cave
A fifty metre long swim through for divers experienced in overhead environments. A colourful cave with billiant soft corals and gorgonian fans within and around the site. To one side of the entrance are walls that drop off down to approx. 28-30m, and to the other side beautiful bommies covered in soft corals. The entrance to the cave is in about 16m.

The Pestles
Through thousands of years of wave action, three large bowl shaped formations have been hollowed out of the sea bed south of Eden. These 'Mortars' offer protection to a wide variety of marine life, ranging from small colourful molluscs to schools of sleepy Port Jackson Sharks. The third 'Mortar' also boasting a small bubble cave. The depth range of this dive makes it ideal for all levels of divers. (5-12m)

The Chipmill
A divesite that enthrals the 'Sea Dragon' lover. The pylons of the Eden Chipmill is home to a multitude of these beautiful creatures of the sea. Hovering in depths ranging from 8m to a maximum depth of 15m it is a very pleasant dive.

Mmmm... the Cave sounds lovely and the Tasman. I haven't done any good wreck diving since Sharm in Egypt last year.... were I was too busy asking clients not to steal things from the wreck.

Anyway.... I'm also thinking of bringing my new Baby...

My new amazing monofin..... that I have been trying just to practice a little bit of Freediving. I have to confess is quite hard but the speed is amazing...

Anyway, I will keep you posted and I will let you know when I come back from Merimbula Divers Lodge...

Until then.... keeeeeep bloooooooging people.

Well, well.. I never expected to have 100 users in the first month! Great....

Ok, let's BLOG...

be aware, this is not a diving topic, well, almost... because is like a deep deco dive... its called "getting married and having a child"

A complex Deco Dive.

This is the photo of the wedding.... the power of high tec. cameras.... you can't see the baby... down under... in Bebecca's (Rebecca) belly! There is my future scuba instructor... ! He has been diving for almost 28 weeks now, his buoyancy is perfect!

Ok. so this is one of the photos. We got married at nite time, in a small chuch facing Gippsland Lakes in Victoria (Aust).

Ok, as you can see, I had to update the server and now many of you need to request a new password. After you login if you go to profile, you can change it back to your old password.

I'm really sorry for this problem. But BELIEVE ME, is much better to fix it now than months later.

Thanks to MaxBottomTime that contact me to let me know of this problems. Thx to him the problem is fixed.

Gosh I'm happy.... I'm going to go diving in the next weeks...(well like in 1 month or so)...

I can't believe that I have been already so long without diivng. So bebecca, is preparing this surprise of taking me diving... we are traveling quite far away, (in theory) by car... staying overnight and the best thing... we are bringing the Dog.

So... Australia, here we come: A south american instructor, with a pregnant divemaster with a German Shepperd obsess with Teddy Bears  . (As you can see, I'm quite a gangster...)

As many of you may not yet know... my Dog is the first PADI certified DOG  Instructor.

Her mum (because she is a female... called SALSA ((based on my southamerica blood...)  was part of the Jacques-Yves Cousteau expedition , so she is also a natural born Scuba Diver.

So here is the photo.. 

* She looks serious because she is trying to calculate her surface interval....

As you can see.... I'm already looking foward for diving...

 Clearly  I'm loosing my mind .

Ok, so... I'm like a little boy, happy happy of buying my new Monofin that I will order next week. I tried to buy this monofin from here in Australia and surprise I just found that it is cheaper to buy it from Eslovenia....  (crazy....)

So, based on the weather I will try to do some practice with my monofin in swimming pool and hopefully in the summer try to do some shallow dives (to 10 mts) with the monofin in little freedives exercises...

So I have been reading a lot about the Rescue operation to recover the Russian Submarine. And I'm quite amaze about my previous ignorance about submarines. Anyway.... this sub is at 190 MT and there is no way they can bring them back by scuba rescue operation (that is quite clear...) but the fact that almost exactly five years ago, the Kursk submarine sank after explosions on board, killing all 118 men on board. Some of the sailors survived the initial blast, but ran out of oxygen. The authorities then were accused of a cover-up.

Ok. so I started to look at map of the regions (sea maps) and based on the famous depth the Kusk was only at 90 MT. Yes... I know 90 MTS... over 300 FT is quite a lot... but I have seen people doing 96 to 100 mts in Egypt during deco dives with trimix. So why not the same option to 90 MT???

Anyway... just silly ideas.

By the way: If anyone needs more MEGAS to store photos let me know. I'm thinking of incresing the space in the hosting to allowed some Videos... any one interested in been part of this idea???

Also... I'm trying to build up the FRIENDS Section, if any of you works in a Dive Center or Business send me your logo or design and I will put it there...

well boys and girls... it is sunny (but cold) today here in Australia, I hope all of you are doing well....

Have a nice weekend.

Well, this sounds funny, but today  I finish my examn and course for Swimming Instructor.  The witten test was almost as long as the PADI IE when I did my instructor course... but hey... I'm glad to finish. I think it will help at some stage to be able to teach to swim and then to teach to dive.... it seems like a normal progressive channel.

I remember once, when in Egypt one of my divers (korean) almost drown because he didn't know how to swim... 

Well... if the korean guys comes back again... I will teach him to swim....

Also, don't laugh... I got my learning Driving License, because in Australia, my Colombian Licence is not valid... so now I can drive, swim and dive...

What else can I ask????

The Wedding was lovely... really nice... in a really small church, full of candle lights. Really special. I'm really happy of been Rebecca Husband now... (sounds soooooo strange...)

Well a nice photo of us for MyDivingLife.com community (this photo was in our honey moon, that we did BEFORE the wedding... (quite normal for us - we do everything upside down...)

Yes, I'm getting married. I'm so happy!  

My love for Rebecca has survived so many things... my vida loca diving in Egypt, the crazyness and traffic of London, her diving time in Thailand, our freediving learning process and now... our simple and amazing life in Australia, expecting a scuba baby for November.

I' m really happy. Things are going great. I love this website, it is simply one of my favorites... I was searching for so long to create a system where people could post just their every day life...  and I guess after only 15 days things are working perfect.

Thanks to all of you, for login in every day, and trusting that this network can bring us a little bit closer.

To all the girls out there: Sorry, my next blog... I  will not be a single diver anymore...

Ok, so If I tell you:

hey, guess what? I was just playing Scuba Simulator on my Laptop... you will think...

ooohhhh god that's so coool...!!!!

right?

Well, not really. I found this strange software called exactly that: Scuba Simulator:

http://homepage.mac.com/dan_nafe/.Public/Scuba.exe

and please if you play it, tell me ... please... please tell me, where I can open the secret level to find the FUN in the software.

The scary thing is that is a simulator pretends to TEACH people to dive, so guess what? There is an option for Dropping your weights!

Anyway... just to let you know in case you are really... really bored. For me, time to go to bed.

Ok, may be the funny thing in this photo, is that in a photo you can't smell my fear. This were my first students after I finish my instructor Course in Thailand. Sometimes I wonder why I was so nervous... 1 year before I was working taking divers into the Blue Hole in Dahab, where at any stage any diver can go over 40 mts if the divemaster is not carefull enough. This was only 18 mts, but believe me I was really, really, nervous. The first photo is me trying to do the famous control descent with a visual reference, but guess what, the rope was tied to the diving boat, and the diving photo wasn't the most stable boat in the east of Thailand.

I guess like with everything, things went easier and easier....

may be next time I put some nice underwater photos....

Good nite everyone. I guess such is life in MyDivingLife !

So I got this email from such an smart guy...

Oh man, I have to write about that: The coldest dive ever in my life....  . May be that's what happens when you are a southamerican diver, living in Australia... and missing the warm waters of the Red Sea.

Well.... I wasn't expecting so many people to turn up in the first 12 hours of MyDivingLife...

It is really, really nice to see people posting from Canada, England, Egypt and Brazil.

Well, today, I promess my girlfriend (future wife...  ) that I wasn't going to work on any of the sites, but hey... I think I can fix a little bit more the templates, give them a look more "underwater"... I will see what I can do with them, any feedback on the templates is more than welcome.

See u soon.

It is strange that I design to start building this Blog System the day of the bombs in London. I say strange, because it was exactly the day of the bombs in Madrid, when I decided to leave Europe for good and go to Dahab to live the rest of my days. My mum told me that I was insane, and my flatmate in Amsterdam told me that in Egypt there were only camels and egyptians (quite smart.... ) Anyway... I went to Dahab with the intention of learning to dive, and as many of you guys/girl out there, as soon as I finish my open water I wanted more... more and more... I still remember my first Dive: I felt like a looser, I did everything wrong ... my ears were hurting, my instructor was quite close of giving up with me.... etc... But hey... I guess we all have been there. I became a Divemaster 6 months later in Dahab and then I went to London, and Thailand to do my IDC. I guess I will write a lot more about Dahab, and about Thailand. Mmm. First Blog in MyDivingLife. I wonder how many more posts will this site have in the next 12 months? Only time will tell..