Noel's Dive Blog

Diving With Whale Sharks

Tue, 08 Jul 2014 00:13:04 +0000

This was definitely a dive of a life time. We went with Casa Del Buceo. They took very good care of us. Only 6 of us in the boat. We left at 7:30 am and were back by 12:00. Enrique and Jesus worked hard to get us to the Sharks.

This first video shows a bit of how the process works. The boat gets close to the whale shark (but not to close) and while its getting in place you hang over the edge of the boat. Once the boat is in position you jump from the boat and start swimming like crazy to get to the whale shark.

This second video is from our first swim with our first whale shark. While you look at them from the boat they appear to be slow but when you are in the water with them they are actually moving quite fast. It was a struggle to keep pace with them.

Hawaii Dives from 2013 Trip

Mon, 06 Jan 2014 19:09:24 +0000

These videos are from our latest trip to Maui. The first video is from a two dive trip we did with Scuba Shack. The first part of the dive (which is not on this video) was to Molokini Crater. The second dive of the day was at a site called Red Hill which is close to Mckena. Was a great dive where we saw 2 turtles and an octopus.

The second trip we took was for a Manta Dive through the Maui Dive Shop (MDS). MDS had said that they had great success spotting mantas. We thought we would take the chance and we booked the dive. The first dive was to the back wall of Molokini Crater. I didn’t take my light on this dive the video will look rather blue.

This third video is from the actual Manta Dive. The dive was 45 minutes and we unfortunately did not see any Mantas. The video from this dive is short and pretty uneventful as the images were taken while we were trying to spot the mantas.

GoPro in a Crab Net

Mon, 06 Jan 2014 16:35:15 +0000

What an awesome idea for a GoPro.

Commercial Diver and a Turtle

Fri, 20 Dec 2013 02:44:45 +0000

Love this video!

OW Class 06/30/2013

Tue, 09 Jul 2013 21:39:18 +0000

Mosquitoes were brutal but this was an awesome class to work with.

Diving the Dam September 30th, 2012

Fri, 05 Oct 2012 01:58:57 +0000

Here is some video from a dive I did on the Dam

1912 Dam September 30th, 2012 from Leon Fooks on Vimeo.

Picturesque Shipwrecks Worldwide

Fri, 08 Jun 2012 14:29:07 +0000

Some neat pictures of wrecks among the land walkers.

New Scuba Hand Signals

Wed, 25 Apr 2012 15:05:25 +0000

Pumpkin Carving 2011

Sun, 04 Mar 2012 18:20:58 +0000

Video from the Pumpkin Carving Contest in October 2011.

Diving the 1912 Dam

Thu, 13 Oct 2011 04:27:02 +0000

Some video I took on September 25th at the dam site in Lake Minnewanka. Video is taken around the 1912 dam. Video includes the block house, the dam itself, plaque of Philippe Cousteau.