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Health question
Hi everyone, My wife and I recently completed our Advanced Open Water up on the Great Barrier Reef. It was absoloutely amazing. The thing is. Since we arrived home ( about 36hours after our last...
Posted by SimonW Added: 18 Dec 2007, 12:30 am GMT No comments yet
Find the Fishie
Shot with an Olympus 7070 using just the built in strobe. Photo taken at Playground on Norman Reef, QLD. It was my 3rd day doing underwater photography.
Photo Comp September '05 - Novice...
Posted by James Added: 17 Sep 2005, 11:27 pm GMT No comments yet
I'm not really sleeping
Shot with an Olympus 7070 using just the built in strobe. Minor colour correction in photoshop. Photo taken at Reef Magic on Saxon Reef, QLD. It was my 4th day doing underwater photography.
Photo Comp September '05 - Novice...
Posted by James Added: 17 Sep 2005, 10:21 pm GMT No comments yet
Passport Shot for Mr Blenny
This little blenny obviously needed his passport shot taken as he was most obliging and kept very still. Taken at Two Caves on the Cocos (Keeling) Islands. Fuji F810 with INON Macro lens and D2000 strobe.
Photo Comp September '05 - Open ...
Posted by Blaze Added: 14 Sep 2005, 12:40 am GMT No comments yet
Friendly Wally
Friendly Wally, the Maori Wrasse. Taken with IXUS 500 at the Great Barrier Reef.
Photo Comp September '05 - Open...
Posted by Fiona Added: 13 Sep 2005, 11:54 pm GMT No comments yet
Barotrauma
Hi..I recently suffered a barotrauma in my left ear. My ear drum wasn't perforated..but I have constant ringing in my ears. The ENT said it will stop in its own time...and no scuba diving for 2 months...
Posted by Hilary Added: 12 Apr 2005, 11:26 pm GMT No comments yet
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) has many other important medical uses?
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) has many other important medical uses? Such uses are speeding up healing, helping problem wounds heal faster, fighting life threatening infections, saving amput...
Posted by Sierra Surplus Added: 27 Jun 2004, 3:20 pm GMT 2 comments Last reply added: 12 May 2010, 9:27 pm
Diving with Bells Palsy
For anyone curious enough I did my first dive the other day after having suffered from bell's palsy ( http://www.bellspalsy.ws/ ) since late Ma...
Posted by Nick Lo Added: 02 Sep 2003, 2:54 am GMT 3 comments Last reply added: 17 Jul 2004, 4:48 am

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