Don Silcock

I did a 10 day trip to Ambon (which was supported by Maluku Divers) earlier this year and have just had a comprehensive 9 page article published in X-Ray - plus I have updated the location pages for Ambon on my site.

You can download the Ambon article on this LINK

The intro page for the Ambon location pages are available on this LINK

In January this year, with the support of Tulamben Wreck Divers who sponsored my trip, I spent six days diving the Liberty Wreck 4-5 times a day.

My objective was to try and understand the level of degradation that happens on the wreck because of the sheer numbers of divers who visit it - up to 150 a day in peak season.... I felt that there must be more going on than was immediately apparent because diving the wreck every year or so, and photographing it in the process, shows that significant damage does occur but the wreck seems to be able to rejuvenate itself!

It was a really interesting experience and I documented it all in an article that is in the current issue of X-Ray and over the weekend I completed updating my site with a kind of "insiders guide" to the Liberty so that other divers can understand what I think I gleaned from the experience.

Here is the link to the insiders guide to the Liberty wreck and just follow the various links to the other pages.

Here is the link to the X-Ray article on the Liberty wreck.

Don

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With the help and support of Tulamben Wreck Divers, who sponsored my diving, I spent six days last January diving the Liberty Wreck in Tulamben, Bali. I first dived the wreck back in 1999 and have visited it many times since and while I thought knew the site well, I decided that I should have a little immersion therapy on it to try and better understand why it seems to stay good despite the volume of traffic it gets.

So I dived 4-5 times a day on the wreck for the six days and in the process really felt that I could feel it's pulse, because the Liberty is almost a living thing - there is so much going on!

I documented it all in an article that is in the latest issue of X-Ray which you can download on this LINK to my site if you would like to read more...

Don

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I have decided to sell my Patima SB900 housing, complete with strobe cord and ULCS mounting ball - it is on Ebay on the following ling:

http://www.ebay.com....984.m1555.l2649

Don

My article on diving and (some) travel in Timor Leste has been published in the latest issue of X-Ray - really pleased with the end result.

Don

Here is the link: http://www.indopacif...ping-crocodile/

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