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| Greg Mossman... |
 Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2009 10:55 am |
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I love macro photography. Taking little creatures and blowing them up
(figuratively) exposes the hidden world that most of us never see
close up due to physiological constraints, and often that world has a
beauty that would otherwise escape human appreciation. But taking
photos of nudibranchs and gobies in warm tropical water is one thing.
These wackos dive in the coldest water on the planet just to look at
microbes. Go figure.
(Warning: the photos in the link are not for the faint of heart warm
water diver - my teeth involuntarily started chattering and I assume
they could induce potentially-fatal hypothermia in a typical
Floridian)
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.rss.html?pid=32618 |
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| 1hogrider... |
| Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2009 3:59 pm |
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Greg Mossman wrote:
Quote: I love macro photography. Taking little creatures and blowing them up
(figuratively) exposes the hidden world that most of us never see
close up due to physiological constraints, and often that world has a
beauty that would otherwise escape human appreciation. But taking
photos of nudibranchs and gobies in warm tropical water is one thing.
These wackos dive in the coldest water on the planet just to look at
microbes. Go figure.
(Warning: the photos in the link are not for the faint of heart warm
water diver - my teeth involuntarily started chattering and I assume
they could induce potentially-fatal hypothermia in a typical
Floridian)
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.rss.html?pid=32618
Interesting article.
One of my dive partners 3 years ago in Bonaire is a retired Geology
professor from a university about 40 miles west of here.
He had done a lot of artic diving, and underwater geological surveying
of that area. I noticed in the article it mentioned Lake Hoare.
The professors name is Gorgon Love and he told some intersting tales of
his dives and dive operations in that area.
One thing he mentioned was the locals were always interested in what
they were doing and he and his team were a constant source of news for
the local paper. One season they were there and faced with how to get a
hole in 15 feet of ice. He developed a system that involved copper
piping with steam pumped through it and was attached to some sort of
mechanism that made it vibrate. He said it was quite successful.
A newspaper headline that DIDN'T make it to print about his machine was,
"Love's Vibrator Penatrates Lake Hoare".
On one of our dives in Bonaire, we had our gear on, about 75 ft from the
water heading in a "18 Palms". One young fellow who was with the group
we flew down with asked us, "You all going diving"? I said,
"Nope...this is just an equipment drill....good one fellows, lets break
it down and go to the next site". We finished that dive, SI'ed for a
bit and went north to "Oil Slick". We did our dive at "Oil Slick" in
total darkness. When we came out and breaking down our gear, Gordon
started laughing. I asked, "Whats so funny?" He just replied,
"Equipment drill". |
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| Greg Mossman... |
| Posted: Tue Oct 20, 2009 4:33 am |
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On Oct 19, 2:59 pm, 1hogrider <nitesp... at (no spam) cox.net> wrote:
Quote: One of my dive partners 3 years ago in Bonaire is a retired Geology
professor from a university about 40 miles west of here.
He had done a lot of artic diving, and underwater geological surveying
of that area. I noticed in the article it mentioned Lake Hoare.
The professors name is Gorgon Love and he told some intersting tales of
his dives and dive operations in that area.
Interesting coincidence. Curious, I went to look up Gorgon Love for
more info. My Yahoo search didn't turn up anything immediately and
suggested "Gordon Love" instead. Apparently there's a geologist
(geochemist, actually) named Gordon Love, too young to be retired, out
of a university about 40 miles east of here, UC Riverside. He's taken
anti-doping testing to a new level, finding illegal steroid use in
miniscule sponges over 635 million years ago (and contributing to
evolution theory in the meantime).
I would wonder if they were possibly related, but this Dr. Love
appears to be a Brit. |
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