http://www.calvintang.com/blog Photography, SCUBA Diving and Travel. Mon, 11 Jan 2010 23:23:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 http://www.calvintang.com/blog/2010/01/3dhd-tv-coming-to-a-living-room-near-you http://www.calvintang.com/blog/2010/01/3dhd-tv-coming-to-a-living-room-near-you#comments Fri, 08 Jan 2010 18:26:20 +0000 Calvin http://www.calvintang.com/blog/2010/01/3dhd-tv-coming-to-a-living-room-near-you http://www.calvintang.com/blog/2010/01/3dhd-tv-coming-to-a-living-room-near-you/feed 0 http://www.calvintang.com/blog/2009/10/nootka-sound-vancouver-island-canada http://www.calvintang.com/blog/2009/10/nootka-sound-vancouver-island-canada#comments Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:00:50 +0000 Calvin http://www.calvintang.com/blog/?p=1398 Looking for deep water gorgonian corals can be tough business, given that they're a rare find South of the USA-Canada border on the West Coast. A team of divers from Northwest Dive Club and I headed up to Nootka Sound just off of beautiful Vancouver Island for a week of diving and relaxation in the great Canadian wilderness. A town with a population of around 350 during the Winter months, Tahsis, BC is not only off the beaten path - it's completely off the grid. Pristine emerald waters, filled with life ranging in size from the smallest Opalescent Nudibranch to the largest Sea Lions awaited us. ]]> http://www.calvintang.com/blog/2009/10/nootka-sound-vancouver-island-canada/feed 1 http://www.calvintang.com/blog/2009/10/hollis-f1-fin-review http://www.calvintang.com/blog/2009/10/hollis-f1-fin-review#comments Thu, 08 Oct 2009 20:54:01 +0000 Calvin http://www.calvintang.com/blog/?p=1379 Of all the fancy dive gear we don to enter the seas (and lakes), no other is as essential to movement in the water than a set of fins. A good fin can make a significant difference in terms of air consumption, maneuverability and motility. Every few years I take a survey of the fins on the market, to best determine which manufacturers are producing ergonomic, rugged and well-designed fins. This time around, there's a clear winner for the category of cold water, technical diving.]]> http://www.calvintang.com/blog/2009/10/hollis-f1-fin-review/feed 0 http://www.calvintang.com/blog/2009/09/bottle-hunting-alki-junkyard http://www.calvintang.com/blog/2009/09/bottle-hunting-alki-junkyard#comments Sat, 19 Sep 2009 04:34:02 +0000 Calvin http://www.calvintang.com/blog/?p=1345 The Alki Junkyard is a lesser known dive site, just around the corner from several very popular Seacrest dive sites, that offers some hidden jewels in the rough. From "Shaggy Mouse" Nudibranchs and Giant Sea Spiders to Juvenile Wolf Eels - it's a great spot to shoot photos and to enjoy making a dive plan for a moderately current intensive dive site (read: OW classes aren't held here). The eel grass looks like wheat, blowing in the wind - to be enjoyed during your safety stop, and there's the occasional score that a bottle hunter can enjoy finding at this dive site. ]]> http://www.calvintang.com/blog/2009/09/bottle-hunting-alki-junkyard/feed 2 http://www.calvintang.com/blog/2009/08/beneath-emerald-waters http://www.calvintang.com/blog/2009/08/beneath-emerald-waters#comments Fri, 28 Aug 2009 21:58:58 +0000 Calvin http://www.calvintang.com/blog/2009/08/beneath-emerald-waters http://www.calvintang.com/blog/2009/08/beneath-emerald-waters/feed 0 http://www.calvintang.com/blog/2009/02/kindle-2-arrives http://www.calvintang.com/blog/2009/02/kindle-2-arrives#comments Thu, 26 Feb 2009 19:13:52 +0000 Calvin http://www.calvintang.com/blog/2009/02/kindle-2-arrives I just got my Kindle 2 last night and here are my first impressions. Downloads are extremely fast. I bought a Malcolm Gladwell book, Outliers, from the Amazon web site. Within about a minute I looked down and my Kindle was telling me it was downloaded and ready to read. I also subscribed to a few magazine free trials, like Newsweek, The New Yorker, The Motley Fool, Asimov's Science Fiction, and US News & World Report. All of them updated really quickly.]]> http://www.calvintang.com/blog/2009/02/kindle-2-arrives/feed 3 http://www.calvintang.com/blog/2009/02/divers-threaten-to-boycott-sabah-over-shark-finning http://www.calvintang.com/blog/2009/02/divers-threaten-to-boycott-sabah-over-shark-finning#comments Mon, 23 Feb 2009 20:04:17 +0000 Calvin http://www.calvintang.com/blog/?p=152 http://www.calvintang.com/blog/2009/02/divers-threaten-to-boycott-sabah-over-shark-finning/feed 0 http://www.calvintang.com/blog/2009/01/kauai-diving-the-andaman-shootout http://www.calvintang.com/blog/2009/01/kauai-diving-the-andaman-shootout#comments Wed, 14 Jan 2009 22:52:44 +0000 Calvin http://www.calvintang.com/blog/?p=137 http://www.calvintang.com/blog/2009/01/kauai-diving-the-andaman-shootout/feed 3 http://www.calvintang.com/blog/2008/10/diving-the-warren-car-lake-crescent http://www.calvintang.com/blog/2008/10/diving-the-warren-car-lake-crescent#comments Wed, 01 Oct 2008 18:57:48 +0000 Calvin http://www.calvintang.com/?p=127 This past weekend a group of Northwest Dive Club buddies and I headed out to the Olympic Peninsula to dive in Lake Crescent. This alpine lake is nestled in the Olympic National Park, a temperate rainforest and one of Washington State's great natural treasures. Among the group of technical divers in attendance, we had four gentlemen who played various roles in the solving of a 72 year-old mystery, involving the disappearance of a young couple back in the late 1920s. A team of divers was able to discover the location of the submerged car that carried this young couple to their tragic deaths, so many decades ago.]]> http://www.calvintang.com/blog/2008/10/diving-the-warren-car-lake-crescent/feed 2 http://www.calvintang.com/blog/2008/09/solo-rebreather-dive-macro-photography http://www.calvintang.com/blog/2008/09/solo-rebreather-dive-macro-photography#comments Thu, 18 Sep 2008 07:18:23 +0000 Calvin http://www.calvintang.com/?p=122 Today I did my first solo CCR dive, and brought along the new Nikon D300/Subal ND30 rig. It was also my first time using the 105mm macro lens (and accompanying port). I didn't get fantastic shots, but it was one of the most challenging, complex dives I've ever done, simply because there was so much to think about (both camera and CCR) and no buddy to depend on or ask for help.]]> http://www.calvintang.com/blog/2008/09/solo-rebreather-dive-macro-photography/feed 1