Dive-Monster Rhoody

I found that video about diving in Apo Island on you tube and it is probably the best quality I have seen so far about diving Apo Island. The guy who taped it was with sea-explorers. His name is Mika Ahola and what I could see, he is multiple world champion in Motocross. Visit his site for more info  Mika Ahola’s site

Well, he is obviously also a passionate Scuba Diver and talented Video guy. As I have more daily visitors here then hie You Tube - side I want to put the Video here for you guys to enjoy it. I like it alot, even some of my favorite divesites on Apo Island are missing.

The Music and the quality of that dive Video are great. Seven Minutes to enjoy diving at Apo Island. Here you go :

Apo Islands Coral Gardens are just stunning, but I can’t hel[p myself in wondering where the fish are in some dive-spots. Even typical reef-fish are in some places around Apo Island just missing.

However, thanks Mika for the great Video, hope you’ll be back in the Philippines one day. You should consider a trip to Tubbataha Reffs , I guess as a biker you woul love the thrill there and the big stuff… but Apo Island was a good start…

cheers

Rhoody

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Mikes Beach Resort in Dumaguete or better in Dauin is soon to open its gates. The Beach and Dive Resort had a tough head to head fight with Robinsons Dumaguete but finally made it and opens earlier.

Everybody who knows Mike from the Adventure Dive Shop in Dumaguete knows that his Beach and Dive Resort in Dauin was a big dream which finally comes true. As I am working as a freelancing dive instructor for the Adventure Dive Shop, I saw the growth and progress of the Dive Resort construction site in Dauin and know some of the troubles Mike went through.

Sometimes I still wonder how he can keep his great attitude with all that crap. Well I guess seeing the dream grow helps a lot.

Mikes Dauin Beach Resort will be a great place for guys who want to relax and having a great  time in a family atmosphere. With only 8 rooms and the huge pool it is designed very spacious and won’t get crowded.

The rooms of Mikes Beach and Dive Resort in Dauin have 2 categories and are priced with 2000 and 2500 peso. With that prices he will cover a market for guests and travelers which don’t or can’t stay in other Beach and Dive resorts in Dauin which charge over 100$ and more than 100 peso for a local beer.

But relaxing and Diving is not all Mike offers in his new Beach Resort 15 kilometer south of Dumaguete. He will tailor you a customized program for your non diving days whether you want some adventures or just a city trip to buy some souvenirs.

The kitchen of Mikes Beach Resort will have extended menu of his Waterfront Café in Dumaguete which is well known for its Mexican delights and burger. Well my favorite is still the breakfast until closing time.

So from my side all the best to Mike, Joan and his team of the Dumaguete Beach Resort in Dauin.

Cheers

Rhoody

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I was thinking about posting that Video of a cave dive, as it has nothing to do with the Philippines. Than I remembered my friend in Puerto Galera Dave Ross, who runs Tech Asia and the fire in his eyes when he spoke about that kind of stuff … in his case more wreck diving and the shiny eyes were not from the Beer in the Point bar…

Matt Reed is also one of the highest qualified Technical Diving instructors in the Philippines, now working out of Dumaguete, but you can dive with him all over the Philippines.

Matt explored some of the flooded caves in Mabinay, what was as of my knowledge the first exploration there and is ready to do more.

Cave-diving is safe if the diver follows the rules. Of course it is an overhead environment and the risk is higher than gliding on top of the Coral gardens in Dauin. You need the proper training, equipment, health and skills …

for all who have no clue what I am talking about, take your headphones and 8 minutes to watch the following amazing video about cave diving in mexico…

I hope you liked

Rhoody

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I know that I don’t tell you anything new. I just wanted to make that statement after some breath-taking experience with the female gender in Dumaguete driving cars. A global study over a long term just proved  that women have only 23 % of the accident-rate of men.

I think that tells enough. To underline the statement I copied the final video-documentation in the frame below… no questions shall be asked…

… the study also said, that women drive only 9% of the kilometers/miles men do.
So if you look at the statistic for “numbers of accidents per 100.000 km/miles” the result looks “slightly” different.

drive with a smile

Rhoody

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Pinoy Big Brother is in the Phillipines a big thing, maybe even bigger than in most parts of the world. The finalists will be hero’s for a long time and won’t be forgotten after a few weeks. In this case Jason and Uma, the winner or finalists or whatever they are came with Noly de Castro, the daughter of the vice-president to Dumaguete to present our lovely town at Trip Na Trip, a travel-show on ABS-CBN, one of the biggest local TV-Stations.

This story is about 2 years old now, back when I was working for Atlantis.
One morning my boss came to me and told me that I had to go diving with Uma and Jason, they can be here each minute….. hmmm Uma and Jason, sure, yesterday I was diving with Jim and Jack, so why not with Uma and Jason…

Feeling that my boss was a bit nervous I asked him carefully:

“Boss, errrmmm I don’t wanna be rude but who the fxxx are Uma and Jason ?”

“Rhoody, you don’t know them? the stars of Pinoy Big Brother, you go on a Apo trip with them and go diving. And the daughter of the vice-president also comes with you. They make a episode for a TV-show, two things Rhoody, they never were in the water before and don’t bend over”

I had the first point many times before, so was quite ok with that, what the second “thing” should tell me was pretty clear as soon as the production crew came into the resort. Aynaku, all the guys were soooooo sweat, that I put an extra layer of 7mm Neoprene on the bottom back of my wetsuit.

At the end I couldn’t call it diving but I kept them alive under water and we had a great time. I am still virgin and food and drinks were also for free, so no reason to complain.

What’s a kind of funny, that my girlfriend got calls from friends in Manila after the broadcast, that they saw a guy on TV at Trip na Trip diving with Uma and Jason from Pinoy Big Brother. The guy looks like Rhoody… Shame on me, I did not even know them… maybe I am getting old.

After the broadcast I was looking around to get a copy of it, Hey I don’t dive everyday with “real”stars. For whatever reason, it was not possible. Finally I got that blury video which is a kind of funny as it is recorded with a cell-phone from the TV.

Promise by the 7 lifes of my dead cat, I will never miss a Pinoy Big Brother and Trip na Trip episode anymore…..again, sorry for the bad quality and cheers

Rhoody

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For a given reason I had to copy the following levels to here. I might have reached 3-4 yesterday. Did I tell you already that i hate Barhopping with the Beermonster ?? … at least for a few hours ??

Hangover-Level1

No pain. No real feeling of illness. You slept in your own bed and when you woke up there were no traffic cones in there with you. You are still able to function relatively well on the energy stored up from all those vodka redbulls. However, you can drink 10 bottles of water and still feel as parched as the Sahara.

Hangover-Level 2

No pain, but something is definitely amiss. You may look okay but you have the attention span and mental capacity of a stapler. The coffee you hug to try and remain focused is only exacerbating your rumbling gut, which is craving a full English breakfast. Although you have a nice demeanour about the office, you are costing your employer valuable money because all you really can handle is some light filing, followed by aimlessly surfing the net and writing junk e-mails.

Hangover-Level 3

Slight headache. Stomach feels crap. You are definitely a space cadet and not very productive. Anytime a girl or lad walks by you gag because the perfume/aftershave reminds you of the random gin shots you did at the house party after the bouncer kicked you out of the club at 1:45 am. Life would be better right now if you were in your bed with a dozen doughnuts and a liter of coke watching daytime TV. You’ve had 4 cups of coffee, a gallon of water, 2 Sausage Rolls and a liter of  coke-light yet you haven’t peed once.

Hangover-Level 4

You have lost the will to live. Your head is throbbing and you can’t speak too quickly or else you might spew. Your boss has already lambasted you for being late and has given you a lecture for reeking of booze. You wore nice clothes, but you smell of socks, and you can’t hide the fact that you either missed an oh-so crucial spot shaving or it looks like you put your make-up on while riding the dodgems (depending on your gender). Your teeth have their own individual sweaters. Your eyes look like one big vein and your hairstyle makes you look like a reject from a second-grade class circa 1976. You would give a weeks pay for one of the following - home time, a doughnut and somewhere to be alone, or a Time Machine so you could go back and NOT have gone out the night before. You scare small children in the street just by walking past them.

Hangover-Level 5

You have a second heartbeat in your head, which is actually annoying the employee who sits next to you. Vodka vapour is seeping out of every pore and making you dizzy. You still have toothpaste crust in the corners of your mouth from brushing your teeth. Your body has lost the ability to generate saliva, so your tongue is suffocating you. You’d cry but that would take the last drop of moisture left in your body. Death seems pretty good right now. Your boss doesn’t even get mad at you and your co-workers think that your dog just died because you look so pathetic. You should have called in sick because, let’s face it, all you can manage to do is breathe ….. very gently.

Hangover-Level 6

You arrive home and climb into bed. Sleep comes instantly, as you were fighting it all the way home in the taxi. You get about 2 hours sleep until the noises inside your head wake you up. You notice that your bed has been cleared for take off and is flying relentlessly around the room. No matter what you do you now, you’re going to chuck. You stumble out of bed and now find that your room is in a yacht under full sail. After walking along the skirting boards on alternating walls knocking off all the pictures, you find the toilet. If you are lucky you will remember to lift the lid before you spontaneously explode and wake the whole house up with your impersonation of walrus mating calls. You sit there on the floor in your undies, cuddling the only friend in the world you have left (the toilet), randomly continuing to make the walrus noises, spitting, and farting. Help usually comes at this stage, even if it is short lived. Tears stream down your face and your abdomen hurts. Help now turns into abuse and he/she usually goes back to bed leaving you there in the dark. With your stomach totally empty, your spontaneous eruptions have died back to 15-minute intervals, but your body won’t relent. You are convinced that you are starting to turn yourself inside out and swear that you saw your tonsils shoot out of your mouth on the last occasion. It is now dawn and you pass your disgusted partner getting up for the day as you try to climb into bed. She/he abuses you again for trying to get into bed with lumpy bits of dried vomit in your hair. Work is not an option. The whole day is spent trying to avoid anything that might make you sick again, like moving. You vow never to touch a drop again - until next weekend.

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Maybe “It hurts” is not the right description. I stumbled over a video which I just had to share. It gave me goose bumps and all my hair in my neck went straight up while watching it.

A guy named Steve Gass developed a Table Saw which stops when you put your finger into it.
Yeah man, right, maybe he has steel bones, that would stop the blade ripping of his finger, I thought.

Well Steve, the inventor got a visit from Discovery TV and demonstrated his table saw. I was watching that video now 3 times and it is still a kinda unreal for me. He proofed it with his own finger that the Table Saw really stops.

That saw-stop-module only works once but can be replaced at the cost of about US$ 60. 

That guy has unreal faith in his own creation.

My Grandpa would be happy if that invention came out some 50 years ago. One problem we may have in the Philippines here is that this table saw is not really useful.

Table Saws are mainly used to cut the beef, or at least the Karabow-meat, local butcher try to sell here as beef. You guys living here know what I am talking about…

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