June 28, 2005
Dire Straits of Tiran
Tuesday, June 28, 2005 Sharm el Sheikh/Ras Mohammed, Egypt: At 6 AM, after another night of sleeping aboard the dive boat, we motored off from Sharm to the Straits of Tiran. The entry-point from the greater Red Sea into the...Read this update
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June 27, 2005
Tuna, Trucks and Toilets
Monday, June 27, 2005 Sharm el Sheikh/Ras Mohammed, Egypt: My second trip out to the Thistlegorm was far better than my first. True, it wouldn't take much for that to be the case, but the last dive of the day,...Read this update
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June 25, 2005
Out Again...
Thursday (afternoon), June 23 to Saturday, June 25, 2005 Dahab, Egypt: Dan, Adam and I spent a few hours on Thursday afternoon sitting by a swimming pool smoking cigarettes, drinking rum (not a lot of it) and stating a number...Read this update
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June 23, 2005
Diving the Thistlegorm: A Fatal Accident on the Red Sea
Sharm el Sheikh/Ras Mohammed, Egypt Thursday, June 23, 2005: This isn't the happiest of posts and I'm writing it more as a cautionary tale than for the sake of remembering something I stand little chance of forgetting. I saw a...Read this update
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June 22, 2005
Diving Dahab
Monday, June 20 to Wednesday, June 22, 2005 Dahab, Egypt: The Red Sea was formed over 30 million years ago as the plates between Africa and Arabia drifted apart and a flood of water rushed in to fill up the...Read this update
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June 19, 2005
To Dahab
Sunday, June 19, 2005 Cairo to Dahab, Egypt: Cairo's main long-distance bus station isn't particularly large, nor populous at 7 in the morning, but it nevertheless manages to be painfully confusing for the non-Arabic speaker. I sat on a bench...Read this update
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June 18, 2005
Return to Cairo
Friday, June 17 to Saturday, June 18, 2005: Cairo, Egypt: I was dead tired and stuck in a mile-long traffic-jam with shrieking horns and sirens, hollering street-vendors and the blaring voice of a Muezzin all competing for my attention. It...Read this update
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