Says it all really. Man's best friend is indeed a sha...
My friend fats
12:40:00
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Had an interesting day at Lighthouse with a monumental ripping Northerly current taking centre stage, even the fish were struggling to swim, but we did have some decent viz all things considered.But the best laugh had to be watching a lot of very fat and unfit divers with rebreathers floundering at the surface at the start of their dive, with missing weights, missing fins, being too tired, being too hot, trampling the reef and a hundred other problems.And this was just the start of their dive. It looked like ten beached whales along the shoreline I was tempted to call Greenpeace and get them to tow them out to deeper waters! Or if I was really...
Rainy Day Women #12 & 35
09:18:00
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Today was a strange day. If you'd blindfolded me and threw me in the water I would have said I was diving back in Scotland (minus the dry suit and cold water). Still there's no such thing as a bad dive even though it did make for trickier than usual conditions for the old camera.A dark and foreboding sky......With a with blowing around 10-12 knots ENE, Captain Dave took us South to try and outrun the weather with little success but it's not as if we weren't going to get wet anyway, right?First port of call was Crusher's Wall which has some nice cuts on the top to take you out to the drop off and a nice pinnacle for some photo opportunities with...
Caveman Rock
18:14:00
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Now this is pretty exciting. Archeology, scuba and cave diving all rolled into one.Link: HERE Inside a cave so deep and dark it's called Hoyo Negro, or Spanish for "black hole," divers are transporting a 12,000-year-old skull for 3D scanning. The skull belongs to one of the oldest and most complete skeletons ever found in the Americas.The skeleton, belonging to a 15- or 16-year-old girl whom scientists have named Naia, helps solve a long-running debate on what early Americans looked like. Naia's narrow face and prominent forehead look nothing like Native Americas, but her DNA markers prove their related ancestry.At the time of her death...
Octopus Einstein
04:30:00
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Measuring the minds of other creatures is a perplexing problem. One yardstick scientists use is brain size, since humans have big brains. But size doesn�t always match smarts. As is well known in electronics, anything can be miniaturized. Small brain size was the evidence once used to argue that birds were stupid�before some birds were proven intelligent enough to compose music, invent dance steps, ask questions, and do mathematics.Octopuses have the largest brains of any invertebrate. On average the size of a walnut�as big as the brain of the famous African gray parrot, Alex, who learned to use more than one hundred spoken words meaningfully. That�s proportionally bigger than the brains of most of the largest dinosaurs. For its color palette, the octopus uses three layers of...
Dancing in the street
15:44:00
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Yesterday was carnival time here on the island as it was Batabano time. Originally launched in 1983 by the Rotary Club of Grand Cayman and now in its 31st. year, Batabano (bat-a-ban-oo) is held annually during the first week of May. The festival�s name is a salute to Cayman�s turtling heritage - the word "Batabano " refers to the tracks left in the sand by sea turtles as they crawl onto the beach to nest.As we had to work we got to watch most of it from the shop window and but I was able to nip outside to do a quick video of the start of the parade (it was all done on the phone so apologies in advance).We also got a couple of visitors...
