my friend Makai

[shredward]

http://www.soest.haw.../gallery/kerby/

Edited March 25, 2012 by shredward

[von Baur]

Very cool. A man living his dream.

[Olham]

Damn, Makai makes me realise, how LAZY I am.

He does that job with the diveboat; does these illustrations; he is skinning for OFF -

and I am tired, when I have got my shopping home and cooked a meal!

I am a sloth!

 

Great stuff, Makai - thank you for posting, Shredder!

Edited March 24, 2012 by Olham

[+Paarma]

Very nice site. I didnt know he has did also illustrations. Very impressive work.

 

Cheers

 

Arto

[Flyby PC]

I know a fella drives ROV's for Oil companies, and he seems to enjoy life. Plenty money sloshing about, but nothing quite so exotic as your friend seems to be doing. I don't know him very well, but once or twice he's had to be aware of kidnapping risks and the possibly getting shot, but whether that was true or just the beer talking is anybody's guess. I know he does get himself shipped all over the world at short notice.

[Olham]

Flyby, your new Avatar is SOOO cute - it makes the heart warm!

[Flyby PC]

Thanks Olham. These are my friends, Odin and Pippin.

 

One more observation about the pictures is the colour. When I used to Scuba dive, the deeper you went, the less colour there was. I reckon those images would actually be pretty bleak.

 

 

 

Second thing I heard was James Cameron, director of Titanic and Avatar has just dived to the deepest part of the ocean in a manned submersible to film the bottom. I'm curious whether this has anything to do with inspiration for Avator 2. I've heard the sequel to Avatar is planned for 2016, and may be an ocean based story based on Pandora.

 

 

The third story about the deep, was the contoversial scientist Craig Venter who cracked the code of human DNA is currently on a yacht somewhere 'secret' researching the deepest parts of the oceans for new forms of life with potential for scientific exploration. Apparently he's found million of new life forms, with every survey finding more. The hope they discussed was finding a new fuel/energy source which will help save our planet.

 

 

Quite a week for deep sea stories.

Edited March 26, 2012 by Flyby PC

[RAF_Louvert]

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Makai has talent and then some, and is definitely one of those individuals who is wringing every drop out of life that he can. We should all be doing such.

 

Flyby, your stories there of deep sea work give me the willies. I can handle being underwater to a depth of about 50 feet or so. Anything beyond that and I feel as if I'm being swollowed up by the depths. Just can't do it.

 

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[Olham]

I knew their names from an earlier post, Flyby - Odin & Pippin - so cute the fellers!

 

Same for me, Lou - I could dive with an oxygen bottle, but only to a depth from where I can

go up in one go, without decompression time.

 

Drowning would be my horror scenario - although burning to death cannot be nicer, but that's how I feel.

[Flyby PC]

My diving days are over. I developed an ear problem. Nothing serious, - unless you're under water.

 

Your ears balance themselves as the pressure increases or decreases, lke when your ears pop in an aircraft. I had no problems going down the way, but as I started to come up, my ears weren't equalising properly, and I was getting very dizzy due to the pressure building up inside my ear. I was ok if there was something to hold on to for stability until the dizziness passed, but in open water, it was very easy to get really disorientated and I had a couple of minor frights. Well, it's over egging the pudding to call them frights, but let's call them 'warnings' that I might not always be so lucky.

 

Thing is, it was a progressive thing, and for some time before I went to see a doctor I was increasingly nervous about it, and wasn't really enjoying my diving so much. So when it came to the crunch, giving it up wasn't really that difficult.

[+Polovski]

Well put Shred, three cheers to a genuine good guy !