Damon Spencer's Scuba diving history

Scuba Diving History

Like many others, my interest in Scuba diving surfaced (excuse the pun) when I departed on a round-the-world trip. In 1999 I took the PADI Open Water course in Fiji and, on the remainder of the trip, dived in Australia, Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand. Since then I have been back to Australia and Thailand as well as having dived in the Maldives and Egypt (on a number of occassions). It was in Egypt that I passed my Advanced Open Water and Nitrox courses.

Having completed 97 logged dives, I'm especially happy about the fact that not one of them has been done in water cooler than 24 degrees celcius. Diving in Britain in search of shopping trolleys and twenty centimetre visability is not on my list of "things to do". Diving in tropical waters looking for a Whale Shark, however, is on the list. I own two wet suits and I'm under the impression that a 3mm shorty is not going to cut it in the English Channel...

A firm believer in "bigger is better", I have something of an obsession with hunting out the ocean's behemoths. I'd count some of the experiences in the Maldives with large sharks as my most exhilarating, especially a close encounter with half a dozen Hammerheads at 32 metres.

If you're still reading this, you're either incredibly bored or hold some unusual interest. Either way, below are some pictures from my dives.