donsilcock
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I recently completed an 18 month work assignment in China, based in Shanghai, which was a really interesting but very challenging experience all round...
I have been going to China on business 2-3 times a year since 2002, but actually living there was quite different and I never expected to do any diving there till I heard about Qian Dao Lakes, about 5 hours south-west of Shanghai. The only diving I was aware of in China was down in Hainan, the large island to the south of the mainland that is being developed as a kind of Chinese version of Phuket, and although the island is very nice in the developed area around Sanya I had not heard anything positive at all about the diving.
The attraction of Qian Dao, or Thousand Islands, is the 1800 year old submerged Lion City that was a a victim of a 1959 hydro electric project. It was too good a chance to miss and I lugged all my dry suit & camera equipment from Sydney so I could do a weekend trip there. I finally got round to writing up the experience on my website blog - it's in three parts on the following links:
Scuba Diving in China Qian Dao Lake (Part I): Scuba Diving & Underwater Photography in China | Indo-Pacific Images
Scuba Diving in China Qian Dao Lake (Part II): Scuba Diving in China ? Qian Dao Lake (Part II) | Indo-Pacific Images
Scuba Diving in China Qian Dao Lake (Part III): Scuba Diving in China - Qian Dao Lake (Part III) | Indo-Pacific Images
Don
Don Silcock
Underwater Site: Scuba Diving, Underwater Photography & Dive Travel in the Indo-Pacific
Travel Site: Nomadicpixal
I have been going to China on business 2-3 times a year since 2002, but actually living there was quite different and I never expected to do any diving there till I heard about Qian Dao Lakes, about 5 hours south-west of Shanghai. The only diving I was aware of in China was down in Hainan, the large island to the south of the mainland that is being developed as a kind of Chinese version of Phuket, and although the island is very nice in the developed area around Sanya I had not heard anything positive at all about the diving.
The attraction of Qian Dao, or Thousand Islands, is the 1800 year old submerged Lion City that was a a victim of a 1959 hydro electric project. It was too good a chance to miss and I lugged all my dry suit & camera equipment from Sydney so I could do a weekend trip there. I finally got round to writing up the experience on my website blog - it's in three parts on the following links:
Scuba Diving in China Qian Dao Lake (Part I): Scuba Diving & Underwater Photography in China | Indo-Pacific Images
Scuba Diving in China Qian Dao Lake (Part II): Scuba Diving in China ? Qian Dao Lake (Part II) | Indo-Pacific Images
Scuba Diving in China Qian Dao Lake (Part III): Scuba Diving in China - Qian Dao Lake (Part III) | Indo-Pacific Images
Don
Don Silcock
Underwater Site: Scuba Diving, Underwater Photography & Dive Travel in the Indo-Pacific
Travel Site: Nomadicpixal