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Some one recently made 2 inappropriate posts to this series of posts -- perhaps the following will add a little knowledge about Sir Arthur and his early diving exploits and make your time visiting this thread worth while
"FROM Wikipedia:
Sir Arthur Charles Clarke, CBE, (Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) FRAS,( Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society) Sri Lankabhimanya, (???)
16 December 1917 – 19 March 2008)
Clarke lived in Sri Lanka from 1956 until his death in 2008, having emigrated there when it was still called Ceylon, first in Unawatuna on the south coast, and then in Colombo.
The Sri Lankan government offered Clarke resident guest status in 1975.
He was an avid scuba diver and a member of the Underwater Explorers Club. In addition to writing, Clarke set up several diving-related ventures with his business partner Mike Wilson. In
1956, while scuba diving, Wilson and Clarke uncovered ruined masonry, architecture and idol images of the sunken original Koneswaram temple — including carved columns with flower insignias, and stones in the form of elephant heads — spread on the shallow surrounding seabed.
Other discoveries included Chola bronzes from the original shrine, and these discoveries were described in Clarke's 1957 book The Reefs of Taprobane. (my favorite of all of Sir Authur's diving books)
In 1961, while filming off Great Basses Reef, Wilson found a wreck and retrieved silver coins. Plans to dive on the wreck the following year were stopped when Clarke developed paralysis, ultimately diagnosed as polio.
A year later, Clarke observed the salvage from the shore and the surface. The ship, ultimately identified as belonging to the Mughal Emperor, Aurangzeb, yielded fused bags of silver rupees, cannons, and other artefacts, carefully documented, became the basis for his book The Treasure of the Great Reef."
<<One can only guess how many great diving books he would have written if he had not contracted polio and remained focused on innerspace rather than migrating to outer space>>
SDM
Some one recently made 2 inappropriate posts to this series of posts -- perhaps the following will add a little knowledge about Sir Arthur and his early diving exploits and make your time visiting this thread worth while
"FROM Wikipedia:
Sir Arthur Charles Clarke, CBE, (Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) FRAS,( Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society) Sri Lankabhimanya, (???)
16 December 1917 – 19 March 2008)
Clarke lived in Sri Lanka from 1956 until his death in 2008, having emigrated there when it was still called Ceylon, first in Unawatuna on the south coast, and then in Colombo.
The Sri Lankan government offered Clarke resident guest status in 1975.
He was an avid scuba diver and a member of the Underwater Explorers Club. In addition to writing, Clarke set up several diving-related ventures with his business partner Mike Wilson. In
1956, while scuba diving, Wilson and Clarke uncovered ruined masonry, architecture and idol images of the sunken original Koneswaram temple — including carved columns with flower insignias, and stones in the form of elephant heads — spread on the shallow surrounding seabed.
Other discoveries included Chola bronzes from the original shrine, and these discoveries were described in Clarke's 1957 book The Reefs of Taprobane. (my favorite of all of Sir Authur's diving books)
In 1961, while filming off Great Basses Reef, Wilson found a wreck and retrieved silver coins. Plans to dive on the wreck the following year were stopped when Clarke developed paralysis, ultimately diagnosed as polio.
A year later, Clarke observed the salvage from the shore and the surface. The ship, ultimately identified as belonging to the Mughal Emperor, Aurangzeb, yielded fused bags of silver rupees, cannons, and other artefacts, carefully documented, became the basis for his book The Treasure of the Great Reef."
<<One can only guess how many great diving books he would have written if he had not contracted polio and remained focused on innerspace rather than migrating to outer space>>
SDM
