Liveaboard sinking

This happened few days ago.

Daytrip boat caught fire

Yesterday

These are starting to get quite frequent, unfortunately.

6 hours ago, Sokrates said:

Liveaboard sinking

This happened few days ago.

Daytrip boat caught fire

Yesterday

These are starting to get quite frequent, unfortunately.

Seems like an event every 6-8 weeks at the moment

bugger!

I'm going in November....

I believe an "I survived a Red Sea Liveaboard" t-shirt is all the rage now. There's also a Maldives version.......

1 hour ago, TimG said:

I believe an "I survived a Red Sea Liveaboard" t-shirt is all the rage now. There's also a Maldives version.......

1 hour ago, TimG said:

I believe an "I survived a Red Sea Liveaboard" t-shirt is all the rage now. There's also a Maldives version.......

I think back to when I was guiding on liveaboards in the Red Sea in the late 80's early 90's and look at the liveaboards today and bet the punters these days don't realise how good they have it!

For some reason we didn't bother about safety briefings about life jackets or life rafts etc back then...😄

1 hour ago, CCRphoto said:

For some reason we didn't bother about safety briefings about life jackets or life rafts etc back then...😄

Eeee, you were lucky. We had to build the boat first, cut the wood, carve dive cylinders out of tree trunks. Eeee, they were the days.....

10 hours ago, TimG said:

Eeee, you were lucky. We had to build the boat first, cut the wood, carve dive cylinders out of tree trunks. Eeee, they were the days.....

Life in the Red Sea was a lot simpler back then - and probably a hell of a lot more enjoyable.

"carve dive cylinders out of tree trunks" - only amateurs did that - us pro's would just bung a valve into the neck of a Roman amphora and go diving.