So - I've been meaning/threatening to do this for a while, but wasn't sure how it would be received. After posting a great deal after the shark attacks in December last year and the recent political revolution in Egypt, I've received a lot of feedback from my posts and the way that I write them and some people have actually requested that I write a 'blog of some sort. The new Scubaboard has a 'blog function so I thought I would make use of it. I will post most of the Red Sea relevant stuff in here and then add to it as I go along. I've never really done this before so we shall see how it works out.
A little bit about me: I'm British (well, I used to be!
), The wrong side of 35 years old (going on 25), and a PADI Master Instructor currently working mostly as a dive guide for a busy dive centre in Sharm-El-Sheikh, Egypt. I've been full time in the industry for nearly 6 years and arrived here in Sharm in May 2009, the place where I originally did my Open Water Course almost 11 years ago. The rest I am sure will become apparent if people actually read this thing!
I also love to write - since the age of thirteen when I penned my first teenage love poem (it was heartfelt, but rubbish!), I have enjoyed putting pen to paper, or fingers to keyboards in the modern age, to express myself. I'm the metaphorical "angry letter writer"; it doesn't actually need to be read, it just needs to be written, and that has always been a cathartic process for me.
There is also an ulterior motive behing this 'blog (I will drop the apostrophe from now on) which is the fact that I want to explore the possibilities of writing professionally, and I would like to combine this with the most singular passion I have ever had in my life, which is for diving. I can't be a working dive guide and instructor forever because living the life of a transient dive guide is physically, emotionally and mentally demanding; but I've started writing for the Equalizer online dive magazine (thank you so much, Samaka); click my signature to be directed there, and if you have a copy of the April 2011 British DIVE magazine you'll find the back page article on a strange narcosis incident published under my real name - I asked them to put Crowley (and a link to the Equalizer) also but they forgot somewhere. My first professional commission! Woo!
By the way - if you know my real name (it's not terrible, I just hate it), please never use it!
One thing I would like to make clear from the beginning, given the litigious nature of posting anything on the Internet these days, is that the views I express in my posts and blog are entirely my own and in no way, shape or form express the views
or philosophies of my dive centre, the owners, the managers, or my colleagues, or anybody else apart from me, myself, I, and my 17 imaginary friends, unless I expressly state otherwise. Both past and present.
Anyway, please feel free to read (or not), post (or not), comment (or not) and discuss (or not) and if you don't like what I have to say, or think I'm full of crap, don't read it!
Cheers
Crowley.
A little bit about me: I'm British (well, I used to be!
), The wrong side of 35 years old (going on 25), and a PADI Master Instructor currently working mostly as a dive guide for a busy dive centre in Sharm-El-Sheikh, Egypt. I've been full time in the industry for nearly 6 years and arrived here in Sharm in May 2009, the place where I originally did my Open Water Course almost 11 years ago. The rest I am sure will become apparent if people actually read this thing!I also love to write - since the age of thirteen when I penned my first teenage love poem (it was heartfelt, but rubbish!), I have enjoyed putting pen to paper, or fingers to keyboards in the modern age, to express myself. I'm the metaphorical "angry letter writer"; it doesn't actually need to be read, it just needs to be written, and that has always been a cathartic process for me.
There is also an ulterior motive behing this 'blog (I will drop the apostrophe from now on) which is the fact that I want to explore the possibilities of writing professionally, and I would like to combine this with the most singular passion I have ever had in my life, which is for diving. I can't be a working dive guide and instructor forever because living the life of a transient dive guide is physically, emotionally and mentally demanding; but I've started writing for the Equalizer online dive magazine (thank you so much, Samaka); click my signature to be directed there, and if you have a copy of the April 2011 British DIVE magazine you'll find the back page article on a strange narcosis incident published under my real name - I asked them to put Crowley (and a link to the Equalizer) also but they forgot somewhere. My first professional commission! Woo!
By the way - if you know my real name (it's not terrible, I just hate it), please never use it!
One thing I would like to make clear from the beginning, given the litigious nature of posting anything on the Internet these days, is that the views I express in my posts and blog are entirely my own and in no way, shape or form express the views
or philosophies of my dive centre, the owners, the managers, or my colleagues, or anybody else apart from me, myself, I, and my 17 imaginary friends, unless I expressly state otherwise. Both past and present.
Anyway, please feel free to read (or not), post (or not), comment (or not) and discuss (or not) and if you don't like what I have to say, or think I'm full of crap, don't read it!
Cheers
Crowley.
