Scuba Dive Simon's Town Boulders 20/01/2019
Went for a dive at Boulders in Simon's Town South Africa
Scuba diving at Partridge Point, Cape Town South Africa
This dive was done in August 2018
Diving in False Bay, Cape Town
Diving in False Bay, Cape Town
Scuba diving at SS Clanstuart Falsebaai , Cape Town South Africa
This dive was done in August 2018
The Scuba Shack club night
The Scuba Shack club night with I Pad playing music underwater whilst filming some club members having fun
SUP and small shark swim in Simon's Town.
An exciting way to explore the marine life of the Cape's False Bay is on a SUP tour with Surf Shack in Simon's Town. We opted for the harbour tour and kelp forest swim and got to see three species of small sharks.
Diving South Africa East Coast 2008
Video of a baited tiger shark dive with African Dive Adventures on the East Coast of South Africa February 2008 and other short clips
ADAM SPIRES MILITARY BASE 1
World War 2 bunker rediscoverd in the heart of CAPE TOWN!
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Fort Wynyard has a very distinct historical persona because for more than 200 years it has played an intimate, if often fairly low-profile, role in the Cape's history.
Its story is interwoven with such a colourful array of famous and interesting personages, events and regiments that it is amazing how few people know anything about it - if they even know it exists; even its name - which many think is of Dutch origin - is deceptive.
The Fort started off as the small Kijk-in-de-Pot Battery, which was built in 1795 - just before the first British invasion of the Cape - at the personal insistence of Colonel Robert Jacob Gordon, last commander of the VOC garrison and a heroic but tragic figure in Cape history; its whimsical name, deriving from the blubber-pots of the whaling station at Granger Bay directly in front of it, was probably bestowed on it by Gordon himself.
In a very real sense Kijk-in-de-Pot, along with the Chavonnes Battery and the Amsterdam Battery, was the keeper of Cape Town's front door. The Castle and its attached Imhoff Battery were designed to protect the Table Bay anchorage; but the other three were the guardians of the approaches to that anchorage, where guns of the Castle, as well as the small adjacent Rogge Bay Battery, could not reach.
As such they were the “fist” at the end of several other defensive works further out along the coastline – two batteries at Mouille Point, large ships’ anchors embedded in the sand at Three Anchor Bay to hinder any landings there, and guns at Camps Bay (during World War II, of course, this line was strengthened by the construction of Apostle Battery at Llandudno).
The battery saw action only once, two days before the first British invasion in 1795, when a British naval squadron entered the roadstead, probably while scouting Table Bay’s defences. The battery was the first one whose guns could bear on the British ships, which sheered off after several shots. One would like to think that this had some bearing on the British decision to attack overland from Muizenberg and Simon’s Town.
After the Cape's surrender it was kept in service during the first British occupation (1795-1802) and was then handed over the Batavian government of the Netherlands in terms of the Treaty of Amiens. It saw no action during the second British invasion in 1806 - although its garrison must surely have heard the thunder of the guns at Blaauwberg across the bay.
Kijk-in-de-Pot served on till 1827, when it was dismantled (i.e. its guns were removed but the structure stayed intact), but it was too well-situated to be disposed of, and the military authorities retained the site. The little battery lay gunless till the early 1860s, when apprehensions about the American Civil War brought about the decision to resurrect it.
Relations between the United States and Britain were poor at the time, because the British, the main importers of cotton grown in the American South, supplied the breakaway Confederate States with weapons, military weapons (including ships) and civilian goods.
Under the supervision of military engineers, 100 convicts from the near-by Breakwater Prison turned the old earth ramparts into a substantial stone construction, armed with massive 68-pounder guns and named after Lieutenant-General R H Wynyard, commander of Cape forces and Lieutenant-Governor of the Cape Colony.
In its new guise it carried on with its original function. Of the early batteries which guarded the coastline immediately east of Cape Town Fort Wynyard is the only one to survive almost intact.
The Chavonnes Battery was dismantled and covered over, and its remains have only recently been excavated and turned into a museum. The Amsterdam Battery was almost totally demolished in the 1890s, only a portion of its seaward wall surviving; and the remains of the Rogge Bay Battery vanished with the construction of the Foreshore in the late 1930s and now lies buried under Thibault Square.
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Shark Attack in Fish Hoek | Cape Town | South Africa September 2011 - See the Shark!!
Shark visible in the water. Guy lost both legs.
Clan Stuart Wreck, Dive Site, Cape Town, An Aerial View
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The Clan Stuart was built in 1900; this triple expansion steam engine ship, weighing 3,594 tons, dimension of 35 x 4 x 2,5m, was built by W. Doxford and Son, Sunderland, England. The ship was not designed to withstand weather even though it was freight-only ship; instead the ship was designed to overcome the restrictions of the Suez Canal since ships were charged tax fees depending on the breadth of the beam.
There are three different versions of how the Clan Stuart arrived in South African waters; the first version says she arrived at Simon’s Town from St. Helena to deliver her consignment of coal to Wales, while the second version says she arrived after providing coal to the Astraea. The later version states that she was on a naval requisition order after a coal delivery to St. Helena. These three versions have only one common fact and that is the Clan Stuart arrived in Simon’s Bay because of a coal delivery.
On her arrival she was “near-light” hence almost empty. The Clan Stuart was anchored in the Bay. At 2am on 21 November 1914 a south-Easter gale force wind caught her off guard resulting in her been dragged and eventually she ran hard aground, dragging her anchor as she was pulled on the rocks near Glencairn beach. Her cargo was saved and the crew were rescued by lifeline.
The tug, Ludwig Wiener pulled her off the rocks and towed her back to Simon’s Town dry docks for repairs. However she was refused permission to enter until further repairs because of danger of her foundering in the approach-channel. Therefore she was run ashore on Mackerel Beach just 100 meters from the sandy beach, and she was linked to the beach via a cable. Two anchors were used to keep her steady and prevent her from sinking.
Captain Burns of Glasgow Salvage Company sent divers in to inspect the Clan Stuart and reported that she was salvable, however repairs would be costly .The repair work was given the go ahead but all efforts were futile. As a last resort, a wooden coffer dam was built around the damaged plates. However, this collapsed when the ship was refloated and the engine room was flooded.
This is an easily accessible shore dive, with adequate parking and well protected from south westerly swell. It is suitable for training and night dives, and has quite a diverse population of reef animals and some interesting wreckage.
Visibility is not usually particularly good, as the site is close inshore and the surge can be strong, but it is not usually too bad either, and can be judged moderately accurately from the shore.
The wreck lies in fairly shallow water (about 8m) The area is mostly fine sand with occasional low sandstone outcrops. The iron structure of the wreck has become very broken up over the years. A section of the triple expansion steam engine framework structure extends above water, with the low pressure cylinder mountings to the south west. The crankshaft, connecting rods and propeller shaft with large cast iron propeller are still in place. There appear to be the remains of a condenser on the port side of the engine. Just forward of the engine are the remains of the two coal-fired scotch boilers. Both have been dislodged from their mountings, and are lying on their sides with the cylindrical furnaces lying one above the other. The walls have rusted through in places and the tie-rods are clearly visible The wreck lies at about 45° to the shoreline. The bow at the north east end is about 30m from the engine block and is the deepest part at about 9m. The plating has largely rusted away, but a fair amount of framing is still recognisable. The stern at the south west end is about 15m from the engine block and is both the shallowest part and closest to the beach. Most of the wreckage is very low, but there are a few places where it is possible to get into covered areas. A long angled section of plating on the port side forms a small low tunnel many metres long, probably too small to get through in places, but you can see light from one end to other, and both ends are open.
Geology: Sand bottom with occasional outcrops of sandstone reef, probably of the Ordovician Peninsula formation, but possibly of the underlying Graafwater formation. Strike is close to east-west. and dip about 10° to the south.
Simon's Town to Windmill Beach
The Adventures of Mustang Sally
saving a soul could be benefited for the future..( saved a shark in n.kendhikolhudhoo/maldives)
we the hut group got a big shark on our line on a night fishing trip in kendhikolhu jetty... on the next day we just save it......
Best Holidays For You
Corsica - Campomoro
With hundreds of beaches from large family-friendly ones to smaller wild beaches, it's easy to find a place to fall in love on the dunes in Corsica. Our favourite is at Campomoro, a small old-fashioned seaside town, protected by the mountains and lapped by crystal-clear waters.
Isles of Scilly - Pentle Bay
For one of the best beaches in the UK, you have to head south, to the Isles of Scilly, which are just 28 miles off the Cornish coast. Get into the quiet pace of the islands by taking the passenger ferry from Penzance, which takes just under three hours. Celebs like Brad Pitt, Jude Law and even Prince Charles love a slice of the good life here. Hard to believe that this is Pentle Bay on Tresco, not some amazing Caribbean bolt-hole!
Croatia - Bili Boci
If you've never been to Croatia, you'll not understand the star-struck look that comes over the face of anyone who's been and spent time near its stunning coastline. Some of Croatia's most beautiful beaches are on the island of Proizd. Head to Bili Boci in the northern part of the island and you'll find a trio of jaw-clangingly gorgeous beaches with a view of the island of Hvar.
Thailand Phra Nang
Thailand is famed for its dream holiday beaches, and we rather love the Phra Nang beach at Rayavadee, just on the border of the Krabi Marine National Park. If you're looking for the classic tropical beach paradise, look no further. Protected by high cliffs and fringed with coconut palms, Rayavadee is paradise found.
South Africa - Boulder Beach
This is number one on our Beaches We'd Like To Go To list since we discovered that you can sunbathe here amongst penguins! Yup, turns out that penguins don't just love the cold; the African penguin lives in the sunshine near Simon's Town in the Western Cape province. There's a boardwalk at Foxy Beach where you can stroll with the penguins but we love the idea of the brilliantly-named Boulder Beach, where you can relax in the shade of a boulder and watch the monochrome marvels do their thing.
Fiji - Coral Coast
Voted one of the best beaches by Gap Year travellers, the Fijian Coral Coast offers 80km of mangrove forests, lush tropical vegetation and silky white sand. The real draw here though, lies beneath the turquoise waters, with one of the largest fringing coral reefs in the world.
Mexico - Mazunte
Head off on the backpacker trail for Mazunte in Mexico, an eco-hippy-ish area with a turtle museum and research centre. You can watch one of the best sunsets we've ever seen at Punta Cometa, the rocky southernmost point of Oaxaca state. Perfect for peace, quiet and maybe a spot of yoga on the dunes...
The Baths - Virgin Gorda
It's tough to pick just one Caribbean beach, but our favourite is the Baths on Virgin Gorda in the British Virgin Islands. We arrived there by boat, jumped out into the warm water and swam to shore. The area is unique for its huge boulders which are dotted along the sand. Perfect for exploring, there are some fascinating rock formations here, as well as picture-postcard coconut palms to lie under and snooze.
Australia - Great Keppel Island
At the start of the Great Barrier Reef, on Australia's Capricorn Coast, you'll find Great Keppel Island, which boasts 17 stunning sandy beaches, several of which are only accessible by boat. You'll need to take the ferry from Yeppoon to get to the island, and once you arrive, you jump straight off, into the crystal-clear water and onto the golden sand, just like a Bounty bar advert! Perfect for snorkelling or scuba diving, or lazing under the shade of the trees.
Oregan - Point Break beach
Secluded? Check. Surrounded by wild nature? Check. Awesome waves to do all kinds of groovy surfer moves? Check! Those amazing final scenes of one of our favourite surf movie, 'Point Break', were actually filmed at Indian beach in Oregon's Ecola State Park. Vampire fans can get stuck in and recreate key 'Twilight' scenes that were shot here too.
Shark attack in Cape Town
A British man is in a critical condition after being attacked by a shark while swimming in South Africa.
The 42-year-old man was mauled by a great white shark at Fish Hoek beach in Cape Town.
Reports said the man, who is believed to live in the city, was rescued by a bystander after he ignored shark warnings to go swimming.
He was airlifted to Constantiaberg Medi-Clinic in a critical condition.
A shark spotters watching the animal noticed someone entering the water.
One spotter ran to Clovelly Corner in an attempt to get the swimmer out of the water, but the attack happened before he got there.
Spotters had sighted the shark 90 minutes before the attack, and closed the beach. The shark flag was raised and the siren set off.
The victim of the attack was the only person in the water at the time.
The beach, together with another three locally are closed as a precaution until further notice.
The shark was still in the area in the afternoon and being monitored.
Bula Maker, Nananu-I-Ra, Fiji
Day 1 Dive 2, 14/8/16; Sharks seen ^_^
Strain Hunters Jamaica Expedition (Full Length)
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Here we go again!
We board a flight from Amsterdam and in 9 hours we are in the Caribbean. After a layover of just a couple of hours on Curacao, we fly on to Jamaica. We land in Kingston around 11 am local time. The air is hot, but not too humid.
We have a 3 hours layover, so we decide to get out of the airport and go have lunch in Port Royal, half an hour away on the coast. It's a bit of a ghost-town, once a very rich merchant harbor, destroyed at the end of the seventeenth century by a powerful earthquake. It looks like it never really recovered…
We eat lunch in a small fish-restaurant, famous for its snapper. But I eat jerk chicken because I am picky with my fish, and the jerk-spices here are amazing!
Of course we drink some Red Stripe beers, and Simon and myself decide it's time to find some weed. It does not take long before we hit the jackpot: literally on the side of the local Police station, along the seaside, there are some barracks and shacks; inside a group of Rastas is busy cleaning and chopping weed and rolling it up in small balls, using rolling papers as containers.
We ask if we can buy some, and the guys are thrilled. It's cheap, less than 1 Euro per gram. But it's a bit bitter, very leafy, and we enjoy it just because it's been a while since we smoked in Amsterdam! Some of the Rastas in the back are smoking crack cocaine in a glass pipe, the smell is terribly sour. They ask if we like some, and we politely tell them we are just here for the ganja; they nod, and scream Jah Rastafari!
We sit and smoke a joint with them, and chat a bit about the local weed, and the cops. It's incredible that this is all happening next to the Police station.
We leave as soon as the joint is over, and we go back to the restaurant to join the rest of the crew.
It's time to get back to the airport and catch a Jamaican Airlines flight to Montego Bay, where our local contacts are waiting. The flight is really short, under half hour, and we arrive in MoBay before sunset. Bigga, Shanti, Nampo and Taleban are waiting for us and it's great to see them again; Arjan and myself spent some crazy days with these guys not long ago, during our scouting trips on the island.
These guys are a tight crew, and they are going to take care of us during the next days of this filming trip.
Nampo is a older Rasta, wise man, with lots of contacts and very respected.
Taleban, his friend, is a grower and a smuggler, a real pirate and one of the funniest guys we ever had with us during our expeditions.
Bigga is our driver/bodyguard, he's a man of the road and he knows who and what you need to know to keep us safe.
Shanti is a local singer, a reggae artist with an amazing talent and a great personality. I know him since he was 10 years old, back in 1994, when I spent a few weeks near where he lived with his father (the man supplying me with fine herb at the time). It was really special to find Shanti during our scouting trips back in July, he's now a grown up man… and I am getting old! Shanti will come along and make sure the soundtrack of our travels is inspiring and inspired.
We get the cars, two Toyota Fortuner, and we load up the mountain of gear we are carrying. Then we drive down to Negril in the sunset light, and when we arrive it's already dark. We decide to spend the first night at the Blue Cave Castle, a really cozy place on the rocky cliffs of Negril.
It's another true 1994-flashback for me, this is one of the places where I stayed when I was a 20-years-old ganja-traveler, already a Strain Hunter without knowing it…. Of course to make the flashback even more intense the same room where I slept then is available, so I take it.
It still looks the same.
We are tired from the long travel, and we decide to go for some food. Unfortunately the chef is sick, so we decide to find something not too far away. We hit a jerk-chicken stand by the side of the road and we eat like there's no tomorrow.
After a few Red Stripes and a few joints we go back to the hotel, where we smoke some good amount of high-grade weed, and some gum, the local finger-hash.
The weed is definitely an indica-cross, it tastes sweet and strong, and they say it's from a site not too far from where we are. We make a plan for tomorrow, and we go to sleep. Jamaica is great. It's a true privilege to be here again.
Jah Bless!
And now we are back with MisterX pics, the man is a true artist..... enjoy!
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Wreck diving Durban Dive 13 05 2014
In May 2014 TED went in search of what possibly could have been the discovery of an undocumented shipwreck off the coast of Durban South Africa. Unfortunately we did not find the wreck, but it was a good trip. This video depicts our first shack down dive. Unfortunately the camera man took ill and no further footage was taken during the rest of the trip.
Crystal Pools Hike - Overberg, South Africa
An hour outside of Cape Town, within the Kogelberg Biosphere Reserve, is the Crystal Pools Hike. Challenging at times with loads of boulder hopping and steep uphills, this two hour hike along the Steenbras River Gorge leads to four natural rock pools. Starting at 6 30am from the roadside entry point we took about an hour to get to the first pool and another hour to get to the last pool. After a strenuous hike to the pools, we definitely enjoyed a refreshing dip in them.
First Khayelitsha Surf Event
The Masiphumelele vs Khayelitsha Tag Team Surf-Off was held today, Saturday 24 August 2013. Arranged by the Isiqalo Waves For Change programme, it was a historic moment for Monwabisi Beach as parents proudly watched their kids hit the surf. This was the warm-up!
5 Best Places To Find Megalodon Teeth
5 best places to find megalodon teeth. We countdown the best places to find megalodon teeth. Finding a megalodon tooth is an amazing feeling and this video will give you the locations where you can find these giant teeth.
Number 5 - Potomac River
Number 4 - Summerville South Carolina
Number 3 - The Shark River Park New Jersey
Number 2 - Carolina's
Number 1 - Gulf Beaches Around Venice Florida
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