11:58pm Bans Diving School - Koh Tao Island, Thailand
SINGAPORE (Team Geared Up) - Wow. Wow. Wow. Koh Tao is nice. Very few places make my grade of the ‘return list’, but staying a suite in Bans Dive Resort on Koh Tao and heading out for a few dives per day and relaxing the evenings with cocktails on the beach has. This is tropical. Prop[...] Read More »
5:29am Google Ocean: A Treasure Hunters Dream!
SINGAPORE (Team Geared Up) - We know less about our oceans than we do about Space. Google are about to shift things a little and produce a consumer tool (a version of Google Earth) that lets you fly around the seabed, through canyons and over buried treasure. Announcing Google Ocean: The company ha[...] Read More »
1:51am Did He Switch Off her Air Supply?
LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - I didn’t know about this until informed by an Australian tonight. It looks like a still from an action film, but an extraordinary picture of a diver lying prone on the seabed is at the heart of an Australian inquest. The grainy image was intended as a holiday sna[...] Read More »
6:43pm Rescues: European Storm Kills 23
6 Hikers, 2 Divers, 1 Yachtmans Dead. DUBLIN, IRELAND (Team Geared Up) - I have just returned from camping on a wind battered Aran Islands out in the Atlantic and I read Aisling’s Wicklow Round got called off. Maybe just as well too, RTE News are reporting that 23 have been killed in the same[...] Read More »

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