...and there we shall wallow in glorious …. Helios emerged driving his chariot across the sky and the clouds disappeared on Sunday, making it a scorcher. The wind was slight and the seas calm. St. Brendan, the patron saint of elderly travelers and divers, or both, if your name is David, gave his blessing. We had the boat, we had 10 divers, what else could we possibly need… For some of us the previous days non diving junk had allowed an excessive time to imbibe. But not satisf

It was an early morning in May that the SCDC team rendezvoused at Sai Kung town public pier for the first time in living memory. Expedition leader Captain “Birds Eye” Rob had the team meet at the town pier to see if this is an easier location for parking and meeting up. The second challenge set by the Cap’n was for the team to meet at 08:30 on a Saturday morning, but met the challenge the hardy divers did, travelling by car, by taxi and even on foot. The Cap’n and other mem

The weather for Sunday was forecast to improve all day to sunshine and it did. So from a grey start we headed from the jetty before 9am in another record loading of the boat. We had 7 divers and two passengers for the trip under the heavenly stewardship of Niven-a. Hell for a fish is up, whereas heaven for a diver is down. I say heavenly, more zen-like, meditative, persistent vegetative state. Sea state calm, wind undetermined, tide unknown we headed for the Dollos. The wat