Liveaboard between Lembeh and Raja Ampat
So, I signed up last week and booked my Singapore Airlines flight to Manado.
I’ll be joining my friend and pro photographer Bob Whorton on a liveaboard he organized on the new Odyssea 1. We will be diving photography heavens: Lembeh, Mayu, Halmahera and Raja Ampat for 13D/12N. I hope to do as much intense diving as I did in the area in Lembeh in 2003. (45 dives in 12 days with a total bottom time of 3288 minutes. Average bottom dive: 73 minutes with a max of 123min photographing frogfish)
I failed to get a new camera on time and wanted to get something like a Canon 400D, Canon MP-E 65mm f/2.8 macro, Sigma 24mm and a Ikelite housing in order to explore new areas…but due to time constraints (and always a reluctance to throw that much money – especially as it is always the tip of the iceberg as other things add up to carry all that on top of what I already have) that will be for next time.
Objectives until the end of the month:
- Get all the diving equipment out, check and clean what can be cleaned. Make sure spare is OK.
- Get all the photography equipement, clean and grease, check uw housing.
- Check that all strobes are OK.
- Make sure batteries are OK
- Buy a portable HDD and a few DVDRW
- Prepare to see how to get around stupid EU regulations on place since Nov 6
- Try not to work too much despite having a lot work
