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Grocery store wars 30 April 2008

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The humble leek

This is the best You Tube I have seen for some time. A must for the Star Wars fan and the organic food disciple...

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Life’s great characters: the O-Ring King 21 April 2008

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Brian Cooper - the o-ring king

I have been privileged to know the O-Ring King for a few years now. He is one of life's great characters as well as a generally funny and knowledgeable bloke. Besides being the Equipment Officer in our dive club he helps my mum out with broken washing machines, light-bulbs and other domestic stuff that I can't do or haven't the time to sort out...

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Princess of the Orient 18 April 2008

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Triton Oceanic Corporation logo

On September 19th 1998 having been beaten by Tropical Storm Vicki, The Princess Of The Orient, a 200m long 13,734 ton ferry, sank 40 miles south of Manila on its way to Cebu. She now rests in 125m of water and is the final resting place of some 150 souls that were lost that night. In the early 2000s world deep diving record holder John Bennett and Ron Loos, of Atlantis Tech in the Philippines, were the first two explorers to dive her.

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Triton Oceanic Corporation 16 April 2008

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Triton Oceanic Logo

The concept for Triton Oceanic began during a week of technical diving in Chu’uk Lagoon in 2007 and was initially formed for the purpose of promoting the team’s Project Kongō expedition, to find and document the wreck of the IJN Kongō, a 36,000-ton battleship sunk off Formosa.

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Elegant Casual: Cunard cruise essentials 12 April 2008

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Angela Campbell and Anne Alcock

When Angela (my wife) said she was going on a cruise I nearly dropped of my seat. Where had all the adventure gone? What had happened to this hard drinking rock monster from hell? I soon found out. One of our long standing friends Mrs Alcock had arranged it: Queen Victoria out of Southampton. Me thinks, bound to be full of coffin dodgers.

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My recommended diving books 07 April 2008

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Selection of diving books

I have loads of people asking me what books to read and websites to visit in preparation for First Class Diver and National Instructor. Here are a selection of what's in my cupboard... Also take a look at my useful links for divers...

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