REALITĂȚI ale VIEȚILOR OFF-GRID BATĂ Navigarea pe Tuamotus

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1. Nice ! Cheers guys

2. 🎊🎁🎈💃🕺🎶🎼📣🥳🤩🎂🎉Happy Birthday !

3. Nice footage from the corals in the lagoon. Love your boat, must be one of the best of it's size👍
   Looking forward to the next video

4. Hi Guys! HAPPY BIRTHDAY Fabio !!!🎉🎂🥂🍾 I hope you had a great day and were able to book a room and inflate your own 'safety sausage'. 😱🤣(if I may be so bold). Of course I hope you both had a wonderful day enjoying each other's company and being present in the moment where you are is such a wonderful place.

   On another note, I see all the wonderful footage of diving that you provide – it's fantastic!, however, if I may be a little critical for just a bit. I'll try not to dwell too long on last weeks safety message, but I ask that you review your footage of the diving everyone did on the reefs and passage. I know you keep referring to your friends from SV. Dalos, etc. as very experienced, and I've no doubt that they are, however, even experienced divers like myself make silly mistakes and errors of judgement from time to time. What I see in these videos, if you'll allow me to be critical for just a moment, is that you are often in strong currents. That's great. There is fantastic 'drift' diving to be had flying over reefs in strong current drift dives! Whoo Hoo! However, I notice a lot of diving gear dangling down from people's BCD's and tanks etc. I also notice that everyone gets very close to the reef at times, this too is great and often unavoidable. But what can easily happen is that an octopus regulator (most commonly the problem as they are on the longest hoses) get caught in the reef between coral heads, or perhaps the dive gauge gets caught. One of two scenarios then happens, due to the strong current, NO amount of swimming will allow You to get the tension off the hose to allow a manoeuvring of the gear to extract it, OR worse, the hose breaks at the weakest point severing the hose from the equipment. This presents two huge issues: 1.) you run out of air very quickly, and 2). the expensive air gauge/depth gauge/computer/compass/regulator set up is lost deep into the reef (possibly not – but often yes). In any event you moving way to fast to go back and find it, unless you try to re-dive that reef spot and look for it. Hopefully the break may be at the first stage and there will be a length of hose that helps identify the spot I s was trapped in the reef. Can I suggest that if you need to peer close to a thing, that you do it head down bum up. Be ever so slightly buoyant and a slight fin kick down to view a fish or coral head is better and then an inhale will pull you up off the reef and you can move on. This simple technique keeps gear away from the reef and also keeps fins away from the fish and off the reef too. Try drift diving being inverted as much as possible, that's my motto. Enjoy the sensation of being weightless and upside down (if you reg allows this without getting to wet to breath off), it can be great fun. Plus it is easier to spin the body around to see something when it is vertical with your fins rather that trying to turn your whole body around to see something when it is horizontal. Try it next dive and see. So either head up or head down vertical diving is often the way to go when drift diving. Think outside the square is what I'm saying.

   Clearly, the main point of what I am suggesting here is that it is far easier to hook up your gear and tidy the set up of regulators, etc. up close to the chest area before diving. This make finding gauges and alternate regulators much easier to find when wanted/necessary, and also better in terms of gear longevity and reef care. I can stress this aspect of dive preparation enough. To add a final word on this aspect of such wonderful sport, can I suggest that you and Fabio complete the 'Rescue' course with one of the training agencies throughout the world. Yes, you may need to do the Advanced course first, but this is little more than a refresher for most agencies and the real knowledge and experienced is gained in the Rescue course. Personally, I would really suggest you both undertake a Dive Master's course (these courses make you the 'complete' diver) but these can be difficult to complete in your situation, as they typically need to be completed over a 3 month period. Diving is such an enjoyable experience, especially in waters that you have access to, that I would seriously suggest making this investment into the sport, your education and life experience. Learning is always such a great experience, especially when provided with such great rewards as you have literally available right from the back of your boat.

   I love it that you have progressed so well in your free diving. This too is a welcome addition to your training and experience and will help you grow as a diver/person who cares for the marine environment. I'd love to see you and Fabio catching some more fish and doing a cook up soon.

   I apologise for the lengthy post, but your videos have such potential to educate SO many people that follow you, that I hope through reading my comment, and those of many others below, that many more people will learn about diving, sailing, and the aquatic realm that covers 70% of our planet, that they too will take the plunge – literally! Till next week: Fair 💨's and following 🌊's!

5. Great episode guys!

6. Isn't that music in the background the same as sailing ruby rose has?

7. Fabulous episode guys ‼️ 🎉 💕 Totally amazing underwater adventure!! Loved the idea of a class to learn free diving. What a concept. Of course always good to see 'Mr repair' at work. See you next time.✨ 🌊 💨 ⛵️ 🏝️ 👙 🌞 ✨

8. Happy birthday Fabio. I have watched a lot of footage of underwater dives and this has got to be the most beautiful of any I have seen including delos. The variety of fish beautiful colored fish the beautiful coral it was just totally stunning it blew my mind. Great job well done Happy sailing God bless and stay safe

9. Fabio Buon Compleanno.

10. Is that a 50 ounce coffee Fabio……lol

11. Happy Birthday Fabio! Hopefully your SAFETY SAUSAGE inflated and along with your Homemade coffee cake your day was a success. These episode's are truly EPIC, with outstanding underwater photography and perfect dialog. These tricky passages must get very nerve racking, it's apparent both are more acclimated with navigating the passages. Great job glassing the broken batten together and stitching the main sail. Thank you both for sharing this gorgeous area.

12. That grocery scene looked like a Walmart on midnight of Black Friday! No fights among the cruisers over a head of lettuce? Hopefully the locals get first dibs. :o) Nice to see some healthy coral!

13. why do you work with fiberglass, cutting and sanding, over water, this means the you contribute to pollution?

14. Well done fabio, those surgical skill's come in handy.

15. Happy Birthday Fabio! 🎂🥂 Beautiful underwater videos!

16. 🎁🥂🍾Happy Belated Birthday, Fabio! Safe travels ❤

17. Another spectacular high level boat movie in paradise!
    Thank you Kristin!
    And happy birthday Fabio !🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
    One more year in the pacific should be very special event in your wonderful life.
    Your repair remind me of surgery
    Your skill is very helpful in the every aspect on the boat as cooking 😊

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