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Post by nikeajax on Jan 7, 2023 19:03:22 GMT -8
Brown Pelicans are pretty bad @$$, they're my wife's favorite bird and she always says she wants to be one when she grows up! Here's a painting I did for her, I have shared it before:  "Regina Caeli" (Queen of the Sky) Did you know they have to learn to dive, and many of them fracture/brake their necks learning to dive, they heal too: all Browns fold their neck to the left when they sleep   JB |
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Post by DavidRitchieWilson on Jan 16, 2023 11:29:20 GMT -8
From the 28 March 1959 edition of The Province (British Columbia, Canada): On my only visit to Vancouver, Canada, during the 1990s after attending a conference in the British Columbia capital Victoria on nearby Vancouver Island, the sun shone brightly, while Washington state's Seattle lived up to its reputation for rainstorms when I went there for a few days on another transatlantic trip in the same decade. The British equivalent for "raining cats and dogs" is the city of Manchester in North West England.
Can't say I've ever spotted a suited and finned diver pounding the streets of any of the world's metropolises I've been to, however hard it was raining, but good for Mrs Young, observing the event, reporting it to the local press and earning a pair of theatre tickets for her pains.
DRW
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Post by nikeajax on Jan 16, 2023 11:57:24 GMT -8
DRW, it would be fun to write that address and attach the article!  JB |
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Post by Aquala1 on Jan 16, 2023 12:15:16 GMT -8
David, chances are that green diving suit was a Bel-Aqua/Aquala. Phil Nuytten had a dive shop in Vancouver, was a dealer and good friends with Bill Barada.
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Post by SeaRat on Jan 16, 2023 15:25:09 GMT -8
From the 28 March 1959 edition of The Province (British Columbia, Canada): On my only visit to Vancouver, Canada, during the 1990s after attending a conference in the British Columbia capital Victoria on nearby Vancouver Island, the sun shone brightly, while Washington state's Seattle lived up to its reputation for rainstorms when I went there for a few days on another transatlantic trip in the same decade. The British equivalent for "raining cats and dogs" is the city of Manchester in North West England.
Can't say I've ever spotted a suited and finned diver pounding the streets of any of the world's metropolises I've been to, however hard it was raining, but good for Mrs Young, observing the event, reporting it to the local press and earning a pair of theatre tickets for her pains.
DRW
One dive a decade or so back in the Clackamas River at High Rocks, I was nearing my take-out place and so surfaced. It was raining so hard that I instinctively ducked back down underwater to get out of the rain. Now, that’s a hard rain! At that dive site, I have to park on the road above the dive area. I drift to Clark Park, and walk up the river bank to a trail that leads to the road, then walk across the roadway at the Department of Motor Vehicles site, and cross the road. I probably look funny carrying my float, fins and camera across the road in my wet suit and scuba gear. John |
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Post by vance on Jan 16, 2023 16:00:43 GMT -8
There is an old movie (I forget the name, but JB will know) where some bank? robbers emerge from the ocean in full scuba regalia, walk into town (unnoticed apparently!), do their heist, then escape back into the ocean. I might have missed some details here, but that's the gist.
I can't imagine seeing someone appear in town in a scuba outfit without wondering about it, but we were supposed to accept that...
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Post by cnotthoff on Jan 16, 2023 16:13:25 GMT -8
I used to hitchhike back to the SF Bay Area from Humboldt State University. Because I was joining friends for some diving in Monterey, I brought my scuba gear including a tank. Hitchhiking from Arcata to Marin County was ok, but then it got to be a pain so I would bus from there. While transferring to a bus that would take me down the peninsula, nobody bothered the guy walking down Market street at 1 in the morning with a scuba tank on his back.
Good Dives,
Charlie
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Post by nikeajax on Jan 28, 2023 10:44:03 GMT -8
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Post by Linda on Jan 29, 2023 20:01:37 GMT -8
Wow. That is so awesome! 😮 |
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Post by nikeajax on Mar 2, 2023 13:32:11 GMT -8
I thought some of you would really enjoy this one, it's called "Pop Gun": Not being a fan of Tom Cruz, I loved how merciless they were parodying the super-cool character of Maverick, he's Nimrod: while not great, it is very droll and left me chuckling for days Enjoy, JB |
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Post by DavidRitchieWilson on Mar 20, 2023 12:50:03 GMT -8
Humour from a 1979 issue of the Soviet diving magazine "Sportsmen-podvodnik". Caption: "Underwater sport - in the future". DRW |
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Post by vance on Mar 21, 2023 11:05:55 GMT -8
DRW,
I was curious what the word povodnik means, but the Russian to English translator I used interpreted поводник as "leash". Perhaps поводник is wrong? Or ?
Povodnik is used in connection with the AVM-1M.
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Post by nikeajax on Mar 21, 2023 12:24:06 GMT -8
Might it be like the leash of a dog that holds them back or stops them? Like when we use the expression, "to be on a short leash?" Could the traffic light be the leash?
Just making conversation...
JB
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Post by DavidRitchieWilson on Mar 21, 2023 22:00:35 GMT -8
Might it be like the leash of a dog that holds them back or stops them? Like when we use the expression, "to be on a short leash?" Could the traffic light be the leash? Just making conversation... JB You're absolutely right JB, I misspelled "подводник" when I transliterated the Russian word. It should have read "podvodnik" with an extra "d" in it. "Подводник" (podvodnik) is Russian for "underwaterman, diver, frogman, submariner", derived from под- (pod- = under) + вода́ (vodá = water) + -ник (-nik = noun suffix). You're also right about "поводник" meaning "leash or rein", but in Macedonian, the Slavonic language spoken in the country of North Macedonia next to where Greece, Bulgaria, Albania and Serbia are on the map of Europe. The Russian word for leash is "поводок" (povodok). I've edited my original post to correct the misspelling. DRW |
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Post by SeaRat on Mar 22, 2023 8:53:34 GMT -8
Humour from a 1979 issue of the Soviet diving magazine "Sportsmen-podvodnik". Caption: "Underwater sport - in the future". DRW I was wondering why these divers were all going one-way on the "roads" when a diver could just swim up and over everyone. Does this say something about our perceived 2-demensional world? John |
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