18 October 2003

Part 2 of my interview with Tony Nash which appeared in Always On entitled Russia�s Investment Climate Begins to Warm Up

I wrote the majority of this en route from Phoenix to NY on the day that Hurricane Isabel was hitting the coast a little way to the south. Whilat we would all claim that we review and edit everything that we write it good to see that most of it makes sense in retrospect. The last comment; that Russia is a risky place to repatriate cash from is false; its not. Ask the oligarchy and the rest of Russia which has spent the last 10 years getting money out of Russia. Actually its harder getting the cash in.
Was away for a week getting some late summer sun in the southern Egyptian Red Sea. On the way back picked up a copy of this months Diver magazine, the leading UK dive mag. It published a 40 year historical retrospective. 20 years ago diving was for lunatics with a death wish. Today anyone on a holiday where the sea is warm and there is something to look at underwater can dive. The reason technological advances. But almost no breakthroughs. BCD's are better (the jackets that help keep depth even), infinitely better but an advance on a theme. Dive computers are algorythmic advances of dive tables that have been in existence since..... Regulators and second stages have really changed the availability of the sport.

Now it is too available - humans are de-populating the most accessible dive sites, causing changes in animal behaviour. That's why our next trip will be somewhere totally inaccessible.

18 October 2003

Part 2 of my interview with Tony Nash which appeared in Always On entitled Russia�s Investment Climate Begins to Warm Up

I wrote the majority of this en route from Phoenix to NY on the day that Hurricane Isabel was hitting the coast a little way to the south. Whilat we would all claim that we review and edit everything that we write it good to see that most of it makes sense in retrospect. The last comment; that Russia is a risky place to repatriate cash from is false; its not. Ask the oligarchy and the rest of Russia which has spent the last 10 years getting money out of Russia. Actually its harder getting the cash in.

Was away for a week getting some late summer sun in the southern Egyptian Red Sea. On the way back picked up a copy of this months Diver magazine, the leading UK dive mag. It published a 40 year historical retrospective. 20 years ago diving was for lunatics with a death wish. Today anyone on a holiday where the sea is warm and there is something to look at underwater can dive. The reason technological advances. But almost no breakthroughs. BCD's are better (the jackets that help keep depth even), infinitely better but an advance on a theme. Dive computers are algorythmic advances of dive tables that have been in existence since..... Regulators and second stages have really changed the availability of the sport.

Now it is too available - humans are de-populating the most accessible dive sites, causing changes in animal behaviour. That's why our next trip will be somewhere totally inaccessible.