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Scuba Forum / Scuba Locations / August 2005Sharm El Shiekh News
A friend of mine runs a dive operation in Sharm, i asked him how things were......this is what he said. So far Sharm is still ok, not too many cancellations, but also very few = new reservations. Most of the people visiting Sharm, has paid for the flight and hotel in = advance and are unable to get any refunds.... We went to Ras Mohamed Park on Sunday for an early morning = dive. We jumped in at Anemone city and went along the wall towards Shark = reef... Halfway to Shark reef we met a 5 meter tiger shark. First swam past 20 = meters below us, turned around came past again 10 meters from us. It turned = around again by which time we headed to shallower waters.... I went again yesterday and this time in front of Shark reef we had 2 = tiger sharks, 1 was 4 meters and the other 5 meters, swimming right up to us, past us etc for about 20 minutes.... I am normally not scared of a shark, but these guys did scare me. It was really amazing and scary at the same time.... ****************************************************************** So.....anyone for Sharm ? Dave Morgan @ Work in the UK Take out the "goes diving" bit.... Trip photos on line at www.morg.co.uk > A friend of mine runs a dive operation in Sharm, i asked him how things > were......this is what he said. [quoted text clipped - 25 lines] > > So.....anyone for Sharm ? My blood ran cold . . . Sounds great doesn't it!!!?? :^) > > So.....anyone for Sharm ? > > My blood ran cold . . . > > Sounds great doesn't it!!!?? :^) I read a report about a woman who was attacked by a Tiger shark, she was asked "how do you know it was a Tiger shark"........she replied....."how many other sharks have stripes ?" Dave Morgan @ Work in the UK Take out the "goes diving" bit.... Trip photos on line at www.morg.co.uk > So.....anyone for Sharm ? > > Dave Morgan @ Work in the UK > Take out the "goes diving" bit.... > Trip photos on line at www.morg.co.uk I've just been looking at the prices and I could have a week in Sharm for cheaper than my upcoming trip to Cornwall... remind me again why I keep diving in this country?!?  SignatureStef the pragmatist Hope for the best Plan for the worst Sometimes the glass is half-full; most of the time I’m waiting for a refill. >> So.....anyone for Sharm ? >> [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > cheaper than my upcoming trip to Cornwall... remind me again why I keep > diving in this country?!? Are you more at risk of a terrorist attack in Sharm or back home in London? > Are you more at risk of a terrorist attack in Sharm or back home in > London? I don't know or care... I will not change my way of life just because a group of loonies think they can alter my ideals through violence. f.ck 'em SignatureStef the pragmatist Hope for the best Plan for the worst Sometimes the glass is half-full; most of the time I’m waiting for a refill. > > Are you more at risk of a terrorist attack in Sharm or back home in > > London? [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > f.ck 'em Hey, Stef, don't pay any attention to Greg; or at least take 90% of what Greg posts with large grains of salt. See, Greg is relatively a "diving newbie". So, to sustain his own presence in rec.scuba.*, he has to engage in PLENTY of OT topics in guns, politics, and otherwise in master baiting in topics involving SCUBA. OT master baiting is Greg's Specialty. Occasionally he has some diving experience to share. So much so, I think Greg is really a Master Baiter. Greg has even dived in the Society Islands in French Polynesia, though mostly in Moorea, hardly ever in Huahine, Raiatea, and not yet in Bora Bora. But he talks a good game about diving in Tahiti. :-) He and I offer each other drinks a President's Clubs, airport lounges, and dive locations that we never managed to be there at the same time. :-) Get back on OTHER diving topics while you're here, Stef. Did you know your UK compatriat Jason? -- Bob. > Hey, Stef, don't pay any attention to Greg; or at least take > 90% of what Greg posts with large grains of salt. I didn't think Gregg was trying to rile me I took it as a serious question. > Get back on OTHER diving topics while you're here, Stef. > > Did you know your UK compatriat Jason? Only through posts on UKRS. TBH I don't tend to post much on any of the scuba ng's because there are plenty of people around with more experience than myself. I'll ask the occasional question or jump in where I think an explanation has initially missed the mark (hence a minor contribution to Nitrox or not when the answer became too technical for the question), other than that I've just been lurking for the last three years and will probably continue to do so for some time yet. SignatureStef the pragmatist Hope for the best Plan for the worst Sometimes the glass is half-full; most of the time I’m waiting for a refill. > I didn't think Gregg was trying to rile me I took it as a serious > question. Bob's not used to serious questions since no one takes him seriously. Compared to him, I am a newbie. Compared to me, he's way over the hill and should be dead by now. Amazing what Dannon yogurt can do. > Compared to him, I am a newbie. Compared to me, he's way over the > hill and should be dead by now. Amazing what Dannon yogurt can do. Gregg, that was bloody funny Bob, no offence intended SignatureStef the pragmatist Hope for the best Plan for the worst Sometimes the glass is half-full; most of the time I’m waiting for a refill. > > Compared to him, I am a newbie. Compared to me, he's way over the > > hill and should be dead by now. Amazing what Dannon yogurt can do. > > > Gregg, that was bloody funny > Bob, no offence intended Hey, I am the original STOMPER of those who are humah-impaired. I was the original author of the NED FAQ (Network of Egghead Divers) http://www.arches.uga.edu/~harold/ned.html and the chief contributor to NED FUQ (Frequently Uttered Complaints) which is now maintained by your countryman Doug Taylor (we finally met in Cozumel last year!): http://www.ivydene1.co.uk/doug/nedfuc.htm Greg's humour is, generally quite good, but not great. Do you know how to say "great" in Chinese? "Far Kin Su Par". Humor is the essence of LIFE. No amount of Yogurt or other rotten milk products or rotten grape products (as in beer, wine, etc.) will substitute. -- Bob. > Humor is the essence of LIFE. No amount of Yogurt or other rotten > milk products or rotten grape products (as in beer, wine, etc.) > will substitute. I dunno about that. I've belly laughed at things while drunk that would barely make me crack a smile sober. If that's the essence of life, then why is my liver dying? > If that's the essence of > life, then why is my liver dying? Yours too? Cheers <clink> SignatureStef the pragmatist Hope for the best Plan for the worst Sometimes the glass is half-full; most of the time I’m waiting for a refill. > OT master baiting is Greg's Specialty. Occasionally he has > some diving experience to share. > > So much so, I think Greg is really a Master Baiter. At least you acknowledge me as a Master of something. I'll take that as a compliment. > Greg has even dived in the Society Islands in French Polynesia, > though mostly in Moorea, hardly ever in Huahine, Raiatea, > and not yet in Bora Bora. But he talks a good game about > diving in Tahiti. :-) Never in Huahine or Raiatea and I only did two dives in Moorea. Still, that's good enough to get the "lay of the land". You don't have to dive all the Hawaiian islands to see how similar they are underwater. I've dove the Big Island and Maui and when I get to Kauai this October I expect much of the same and I'm pretty darn sure that it will live up to my expectations. > He and I offer each other drinks a President's Clubs, airport > lounges, and dive locations that we never managed to be there > at the same time. :-) With that in mind, I'll buy you a free drink at any of the President's Clubs in Houston on the morning of August 24 or in Newark that afternoon. > > OT master baiting is Greg's Specialty. Occasionally he has > > some diving experience to share. [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > At least you acknowledge me as a Master of something. I'll take that as a > compliment. As you know, I ALWAYS give credit where credit is due. You're welcome. :) > > Greg has even dived in the Society Islands in French Polynesia, > > though mostly in Moorea, hardly ever in Huahine, Raiatea, > > and not yet in Bora Bora. But he talks a good game about > > diving in Tahiti. :-) > > Never in Huahine or Raiatea and I only did two dives in Moorea. I thought you were there more than one TRIP, for all your talk about the lemon sharks, the Beachcomber hotel dive shop, etc. >Still, > that's good enough to get the "lay of the land". You don't have to dive all > the Hawaiian islands to see how similar they are underwater. True. But the dives in the French Polynesian islands are MUCH more diverse in quality and shark life and pelagics. > I've dove the > Big Island and Maui and when I get to Kauai this October I expect much of > the same and I'm pretty darn sure that it will live up to my expectations. Arctic current and lava. That pretty much sums it up. :-) > > He and I offer each other drinks a President's Clubs, airport > > lounges, and dive locations that we never managed to be there > > at the same time. :-) > > With that in mind, I'll buy you a free drink at any of the President's Clubs > in Houston on the morning of August 24 or in Newark that afternoon. Thank you, for your characteristic generosity on events so rare that put blue moons to shame. Now that they have the Homeland Security goons, even if I WERE in Houston or Newark, I wouldn't be able to get to the President's Clubs there unless I have boarding tickets to fly Continental! With that in mind, you'll have my counter offer. :-) I'll buy you free drinkS (plural) at any of the President;s Clubs in Houston on the evening of August 14, or the morning of August 18, or in the Atlanta President's Club on those same days, OR in the Las Vegas ... oops ... they don't have President's Club there ... or at the LAS Hilton (or any bar in LAS) August 15 and 16. I also offer you free drinks in Hawaii, but you'll have to wait till October. :-) In Nov, Ft. Lauderdale, Cozumel, Grand Cayman are on tap, on multiple days. If you can plan ahead, you can have free drinks, courtesy of da Feesh, in ATL, IAH, or LAX (Jan 18), Auckland NZ (Jan 20), Hobart OZ (Jan 28), Melbourne Jan 30), or Sydney (Feb 1-6). I'll even buy Alan Street a drink, if you bring him along, to show him a little bit of what LIFE is about. LOL! -- Bob. > I also offer you free drinks in Hawaii, but you'll have to wait > till October. :-) [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > I'll even buy Alan Street a drink, if you bring him along, to show > him a little bit of what LIFE is about. LOL! What a guy! LAX is a possibility. And if you're transiting through Changi on the way back from Oz, I'll even repay the favor in the First Class Silver Kris lounge (or is that too much life in one trip for you ;-) Alan, I just KNEW that your entire LIFELESS 24/7 life is to follow me on my newsgroup posts. Again, your pointless post was entirely OUT OF CONTEXT of what Greg and I were talking about, including DIVING in Tahiti, Moorea, Huahine, and Bora Bora. You should have included THIS part, > > He and I offer each other drinks a President's Clubs, airport > > lounges, and dive locations that we never managed to be there > > at the same time. :-) Greg> With that in mind, I'll buy you a free drink at any of the Greg> President's Clubs in Houston on the morning of August 24 Greg> or in Newark that afternoon. RF> Thank you, for your characteristic generosity on events so rare RF> that put blue moons to shame. RF> Now that they have the Homeland Security goons, even if I WERE in RF> Houston or Newark, I wouldn't be able to get to the President's RF> Clubs there unless I have boarding tickets to fly Continental! RF> With that in mind, you'll have my counter offer. :-) RF> I'll buy you free drinkS (plural) at any of the President;s Clubs RF> in Houston on the evening of August 14, or the morning of August 18, RF> or in the Atlanta President's Club on those same days, OR in the RF> Las Vegas ... oops ... they don't have President's Club there ... RF> or at the LAS Hilton (or any bar in LAS) August 15 and 16. then comes the part Alan cited: > > I also offer you free drinks in Hawaii, but you'll have to wait > > till October. :-) [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > way back from Oz, I'll even repay the favor in the First Class Silver > Kris lounge (or is that too much life in one trip for you ;-) Alan, you can stop WORSHIPING me 24/7 by making a pest of your lifeless self now. Just tell us WHERE have you DIVED within the past couple of YEARS (if any <G>) and how many dives (if greater than 1). Then Greg and I, and the rest of the rec.scuba.* readership can decide how much life you have, if you indeed have one. -- Bob. > > What a guy! > > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > Alan, you can stop WORSHIPING me 24/7 by making a pest of your > lifeless self now. Hmmm, I'm not the one who keeps referring to me over and over in unrelated posts. Methinks you've got this worship thing backwards. > Just tell us WHERE have you DIVED within the past couple of YEARS > (if any <G>) and how many dives (if greater than 1). Then Greg > and I, and the rest of the rec.scuba.* readership can decide how > much life you have, if you indeed have one. San Diego - about 100 Thailand - about 50 Philippines - 8 Indonesia - 4 (the diving really sucks off Batam) Getting ready to try Ensenada next week. Care to join me? > -- Bob. > ?Butthole Bob wrote > ? Alan, you can stop WORSHIPING me 24/7 by making a pest of your > ? lifeless self now. Gawd you are a tedious, pompous airbag. No one cares about your "charmed" life, no matter how often you thump your chest and belittle others to prop it up. > Hmmm, I'm not the one who keeps referring to me over and over in > unrelated posts. Methinks you've got this worship thing backwards. Bingo. Tell me, how did you do it? Besides shooting his "facts" in the a.s time and time again... > ? Just tell us WHERE have you DIVED within the past couple of YEARS > ? (if any <G>) and how many dives (if greater than 1). Then Greg > ? and I, and the rest of the rec.scuba.* readership can decide how > ? much life you have, if you indeed have one. You couldnt make a decision pull your pud, and you certainly dont speak for me or anyone else here that I am aware of. In fact, most of the people here actually worthy of the respect you arent hold you in the same degree of basic pitty and contempt that I do. > San Diego - about 100 > Thailand - about 50 > Philippines - 8 > Indonesia - 4 (the diving really sucks off Batam) > > Getting ready to try Ensenada next week. Care to join me? Why would you bother? That is one dive I would thumb right here at my desk. >> Getting ready to try Ensenada next week. Care to join me? > > Why would you bother? Pinnacles, bat rays, morays, giant starfish, sea lions, etc. > That is one dive I would thumb right here at my desk. It sure beats Washington diving, and the tequila top side is a heck of a lot cheaper. > > Alan, you can stop WORSHIPING me 24/7 by making a pest of your > > lifeless self now. [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > Philippines - 8 > Indonesia - 4 (the diving really sucks off Batam) In only FOUR locations in two years? I've been to FOUR dive locations in one MONTH (different four) during many months the past two years. Why is it you never talk about SCUBA in rec.scuba.*? ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ In the last TWO YEARS, you were in only a few threads that had the keyword "Thailand", with "Alan Street" being the author: 1. This was one, because you mentioned "Thailand - about 50" above. 2. Two threads in which Steve Kramer of Thailand was flamed. :-) 3. In a thread "Returning to scuba after 7 years" 4. In a thread "Bush... wow" 5. In a thread "Tsunami Relief" 6. In a thread "Pulling the Fleece" 7. Other threads, "Explosion in London", "Shoot to kill", "flushing the koran", "OT Coutlier", "God really angry with Bush (long)", and "Microsoft spam". Not a word about SCUBA. LOL!! Are you sure the 50 are "dives" as in scuba dives, as opposed to "dives" as in cheap beer joints you went to in Thailand? > Getting ready to try Ensenada next week. Care to join me? Only been there twice this year. I am sure you'll find plenty of beer joints ("dives") there! Yup, Alan. You've CONFIRMED what I said about you ... spending 24/7 in rec.scuba, and having a LIFELESS life. :-) I was going to the Asian Scuba EXPO in Singapore, followed by DIVING in Bali, last year, when you were taling about "Bush...wow" in rec.scuba. ;-) -- Bob. > > > Alan, you can stop WORSHIPING me 24/7 by making a pest of your > > > lifeless self now. [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > Why is it you never talk about SCUBA in rec.scuba.*? > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ That's a fair question. Actually, I do, but in direct proportion to the amount of bandwidth related to scuba topics, less those topics where I don't have anything worthwhile to add (a criteria you might consider at some point). I contribute quite a bit of relavent material, but your selective recollection and irregular attention span somehow seems to miss it (although I have to wonder how someone like you can stay away from Usenet for very long. I seem to remember a certain feeble sockpuppet attempt from onboard a cruise ship recently). > That's a fair question. > Actually, I do, but in direct proportion to the amount of bandwidth > related to scuba topics, less those topics where I don't have anything [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > Usenet for very long. I seem to remember a certain feeble sockpuppet > attempt from onboard a cruise ship recently). Please stop quoting this gasbag. > > That's a fair question. > [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > Please stop quoting this gasbag. Then why did YOU do it? Scott, you're a worse bottom dwelling scumbag than even Bob Crownfield. As worthless as Alan is in his scuba contributions, he is a saint and a walking encyclopedia (albeit a one-page one) compared to YOU. Now go back to your sandbox from which your mommy carelessly let you crawl out, so that we can get back to some scuba discussion HERE, in rec.scuba.locations. -- Bob. >> Never in Huahine or Raiatea and I only did two dives in Moorea. > > I thought you were there more than one TRIP, for all your talk > about the lemon sharks, the Beachcomber hotel dive shop, etc. Nope. Just one trip. A week on the Aggressor, followed by three nights in Moorea (plus one night on Tahiti when we first arrived, and a long day on the island when we got back from Moorea and had to wait for our red-eye flight home). It was a "fam" trip, where we toured hotels and restaurants and dive ops and spent time in "class" learning about FP and how to sell it. It also meant I got to do all the above for little more than the cost of the airfare alone. > True. But the dives in the French Polynesian islands are MUCH more > diverse in quality and shark life and pelagics. I've been meaning to get back sometime, probably for a few days on Moorea and a few on Bora Bora. I don't like the weight limits on the interisland flights, though, which makes the Tahiti-Moorea ferry a great way to travel. Too bad they don't have one to Bora Bora. > Arctic current and lava. That pretty much sums it up. :-) Yep. I did meet a couple on my last trip who had thoroughly enjoyed the Kona Aggressor and ranked it high on the previous trips they'd done (and they'd done many). That put the boat back on my list of "To Do Someday". The problem is that I consider Hawaii a "long weekend" dive destination, a quick flight from LAX and I've done most of the available land touring there already so I'm free to dive every morning and most afternoons. I can't imagine going for an entire week because that would mean somewhere else that I couldn't spend an entire week and there are still plenty of my week-long destinations that rank even higher on my "To Do Someday" list. > Thank you, for your characteristic generosity on events so rare that > put blue moons to shame. > Now that they have the Homeland Security goons, even if I WERE in > Houston or Newark, I wouldn't be able to get to the President's > Clubs there unless I have boarding tickets to fly Continental! It's not my fault that you fly so rarely. > I'll buy you free drinkS (plural) at any of the President;s Clubs > in Houston on the evening of August 14, or the morning of August 18, > or in the Atlanta President's Club on those same days, OR in the > Las Vegas ... oops ... they don't have President's Club there ... > or at the LAS Hilton (or any bar in LAS) August 15 and 16. Drinks, huh. Now you're getting generous. I hope that includes the buck tip I leave at those President's clubs where they no longer trust you to make your own free drinks. Vegas would be a better deal, since their drinks aren't cheap at all if you aren't gambling. But I can't make it to Vegas then, even though it's only a 3-hour drive for me. My non-local dive shop, which is a 1.5 hour drive in the opposite direction, is having a big party on the 14th (free drinks!) and I've already arranged to crash there for the night. I'll be way too hungover to make a 4.5 hour trip the next morning. > I also offer you free drinks in Hawaii, but you'll have to wait > till October. :-) Now we might have a solution. If you can't do August 24 or 31 in Newark or Houston (or the Czech Airline club in Zurich which is supposed to grant me privileges), I'll take you up on your HNL offer on October 19 or 24. Or we can do IAH or La Guardia on Sep 16 or 19 (or anywhere in Boston in between). > In Nov, Ft. Lauderdale, Cozumel, Grand Cayman are on tap, on > multiple days. I'm delaying traveling to the Caribbean until this extra-special hurricane season is over, but I'll see you in Roatan over New Year's. There's a good chance I'll be in the Dallas area over Thanksgiving if we decide to take my aunt and cousins up on their offer to cook turkey. > If you can plan ahead, you can have free drinks, courtesy of da > Feesh, in ATL, IAH, or LAX (Jan 18), Auckland NZ (Jan 20), > Hobart OZ (Jan 28), Melbourne Jan 30), or Sydney (Feb 1-6). I don't plan that far ahead, except for a Bali-Komodo liveaboard in July which is too distant to be able to book air yet, though it will probably be CO's HNL-GUM-DPS route unless I opt to go through Narita instead for some sushi. If they won't let me do a mileage upgrade, then I'll have to find another way. > I'll even buy Alan Street a drink, if you bring him along, to show > him a little bit of what LIFE is about. LOL! Life is all about securing free drinks, that's for sure! I don't live for much else. That's one of the only reasons why I prefer diving off liveaboards, in fact. Why don't you come down to San Diego some time and I'll meet you both there? That's only half the length of the drive to Vegas. There's an underwater film expo there October 14 and 15. I'll get you a ticket in exchange for my drinks in the Gas Lamp district. > Are you more at risk of a terrorist attack in Sharm or back home in > London? Well it would probably be raining in London, in Sharm it dont rain. So the weather would be better in Sharm. Dave Morgan @ Work in the UK Take out the "goes diving" bit.... Trip photos on line at www.morg.co.uk > I've just been looking at the prices and I could have a week in Sharm > for cheaper than my upcoming trip to Cornwall... remind me again why I > keep diving in this country?!? Sussed that out a while back.......and the water is warmer....;^) Dave Morgan @ Work in the UK Take out the "goes diving" bit.... Trip photos on line at www.morg.co.uk |
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