Hi All,
hope you are all having a great time. Its been a mixed bag for Mike Clark this month. Diving wise its been fairly brilliant. I met up with skipper Elaine Watt of the Clutha and enjoyed 2 fantastic dives on the Clyde. Ive also been out a few times with Iain and Jim Easingwood of Marinequest and had some amazing dives, most notably SS Exmouth a newly found American cargo vessel. It was an amazing dive!
reports on these experiences and photos will follow once my PC. is fixed which is part of the bad news.
More bad news is the worldwide plight of sharks. I got some vouchers for Christmas and being shark mad i treated myself to the film Sharkwater by Rob Stewart. Ive just watched it and am now depressed as hell. Its a fantastic film even if a lot of the footage is hard to watch, our treatment of sharks and turtles is disgusting. I knew shark fining was going on and i have done what i can avoiding restaurants that sell shark products etc. As a diver i would have loved to visit the cocos islands or the Galapagos islands to dive with sharks, which i thought were protected there. As the film highlights this is not the case and longline fishermen are decimating shark populations. remarkably even in Galapagos long line fishing and shark fishing was allowed recently for a time although i now believe this has been banned but it continues illegally. Looks like Deep Sea World is the only place im likely to see a shark anytime soon. Now i don't want anybody to feel the way i do just now but anybody who dives should have a look at that film if you get the chance.
Anyway rant over
I don't have many pics to show until the pc is fixed but here is a shot which i really like. Took me a couple of hours standing on the back of Iain's boat to get it but i think its worth it.
Mike Clark
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