Diving around Taipei

[hsinhai]

organize a 8 day "Taiwan diving with Deep 6" event. Do 3 days on Green Island with the schooling hammerheads, 2 days in Kenting, then up in Fulong for the macro goodness.

If you could i'd also include XiaoLiuQiu for a day to get in turtles & wrecks. The schooling hammerheads is a very hit & miss thing, my understanding a negative entry in a strong current area, reef hook and wait, no luck return to the surface, and try again, but general diving in green island that time of year can be fantastic

 

[CarcharodonCarcharias]

funny enough..this thread gave me an idea yesterday.

I really do enjoy the Taiwan diving, it really is under the radar as some seriously great diving.

I am thinking it would be fun to organize a 8 day "Taiwan diving with Deep 6" event. Do 3 days on Green Island with the schooling hammerheads, 2 days in Kenting, then up in Fulong for the macro goodness.

I would also arrange some land tours, temples, tea, mountains (which are awesome) and a back room peek at how scuba gear is made with some tours of some of the factories (that are OK with the idea, I am pretty sure I know the ones that will be good with)

This would be in the late Jan thru early march period, we would have to avoid Chinese New Year. It's considered the "cold" season for those in Taiwan, however for those that live in places that get snow..it is more nice than cold. As in as the evening comes pull a light jacket on over the T shirt you wore most of the day while everyone local is dressed like it's the arctic Day average temp in Taipei then is 60's , night in the 50's. Kenting the days are mid 70's

What do you think, would that be worthwhile to set up?

Sign me up. Keep me posted. If you need headcounts, I can probably persuade few ppl here on the Little Red Dot to head up there.

 

[CarcharodonCarcharias]

I was once struck by seeing a few folks just outside a fish market protesting the Canadian Seal hunt, while less than a 100 meters away was an amazing array of endangered fish dead and on sale... and shark fins etc.

I think local protests and education work better with local issues..

You are preaching to the choir. But it will take eons to change the perception in Taiwan and lots of other places in Asia.

The fishing issues in Taiwan are a giant clusterphuck. And now to make matters worse, the Mainland Chinese fishing boats have completely obliterated the fish population in local fisheries as well. So the local catches are dropping precipitously in volume and the non-discretionary fishing policy is in the play under the "need to make a living" facade.

So fishing stock is further depleted due to the over-harvesting of pre-sexually matured juveniles. And to make money, no one really cares of about the tourism dollar values of the fish in the ocean. It is all about how much NTD they can make on the weight scale. Aside from the jackass that I've mentioned on the post, last year, another nimrod (owner of a hostel) in Green Island decided to spear the local Napoleon Wrasse and sold it to the local seafood restaurant.

Taiwan was slapped with fines and reduction of quota for tunas by EU and ICCAT for 2017. Guess? The fishing boats blew through the quota back in February and now they are protesting and complaining about unequal treatment.

 

[cerich]

If you could i'd also include XiaoLiuQiu for a day to get in turtles & wrecks. The schooling hammerheads is a very hit & miss thing, my understanding a negative entry in a strong current area, reef hook and wait, no luck return to the surface, and try again, but general diving in green island that time of year can be fantastic

my understanding as well and great idea!

 

[cerich]

You are preaching to the choir. But it will take eons to change the perception in Taiwan and lots of other places in Asia.

The fishing issues in Taiwan are a giant clusterphuck. And now to make matters worse, the Mainland Chinese fishing boats have completely obliterated the fish population in local fisheries as well. So the local catches are dropping precipitously in volume and the non-discretionary fishing policy is in the play under the "need to make a living" facade.

So fishing stock is further depleted due to the over-harvesting of pre-sexually matured juveniles. And to make money, no one really cares of about the tourism dollar values of the fish in the ocean. It is all about how much NTD they can make on the weight scale. Aside from the jackass that I've mentioned on the post, last year, another nimrod (owner of a hostel) in Green Island decided to spear the local Napoleon Wrasse and sold it to the local seafood restaurant.

Taiwan was slapped with fines and reduction of quota for tunas by EU and ICCAT for 2017. Guess? The fishing boats blew through the quota back in February and now they are protesting and complaining about unequal treatment.

yeah, trust me I understand, where I grew up (east coast of Canada) we had fishing stock deplete, fisherman (family and friends) destroyed and it has take 30+ years to some somewhat start a better system. It is not easy

 

[cerich]

 

[CarcharodonCarcharias]

It is a great film if anyone has a chance to watch it, I highly recommend it. The director of this film died in a helicopter crash few wks back while trying to survey the sites for the sequel. It was a sad day for Taiwan and a great loss for sure.

 

[cerich]

https://www.facebook.com/pg/followxiaofei/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1202942489740279

 

[MelasLithos]

Thanks for the vid and pics. I just came back from Taipei today, I definitely need to visit the country more and not only the factories

The more I go there and the more I love that country.

 

[cerich]

Thanks for the vid and pics. I just came back from Taipei today, I definitely need to visit the country more and not only the factories

The more I go there and the more I love that country.

me too. In fact I am actually taking my family there for two weeks over Christmas, because I want them to experience it