Istaboa's Waypoints

Saturday, January 19, 2013

Bait and Switch

Photographer Dana Allen waited three days and used a dummy seal to get the perfect shot of a great white shark off the coast of South Africa. Pretty awesome.
From the New York Daily News:

“The strike, when it happens, takes just over a second, up and out and back into the water,” he explained, according to Cater News. “If you flinch you can miss it.”
At one point, just as his team was settled in, they heard a crash.
“In an instant the four-meter (13-foot) great white shark was up and out of the water, right in front of our eyes,” Allen said. “The water was streaming off its body and I pressed my trigger button.”

Photo credit: Dana Allen/Caters News Agency

Friday, January 18, 2013

Happy Long Weekend and a Great MLK Day, Everybody.

and please...

I promise.

Cheers,

Istaboa

Thursday, January 17, 2013

...is a video... Been thinkin' bout our buddy Capt. Spooner so, once again, it's time to run this old video I did a couple of years ago whilst in the Chesapeake. Hope to be heading back up that way pretty soon.
Dave Grusin's arrangement of "Peter Gun" in the background... Video done with an iPhone.

Onancock Run

Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Underwater Crop Circles? + Navigation Software Rant!

Source:spoon-tamago, Deep Sea Mystery, A Love Story

Saw this surfing around a few days ago and thought I'd pass it along.

Aliens of the Deep? No...

All done by a Puffer Fish.

A very interesting article here.

Now it's back to rebuilding our whole computer navigation system... I've been an Apple guy for so long now that Windows is truly foreign to me. Drivers and virtual com ports? I'm relearning more than I ever wanted to know.

And... Oh Yeah! A bit of a rant...

Nobletec, with whom I used for more than 10 years and spent more than $10K with now informs me I must junk all my nav software and charts and buy all new stuff. No more updates! Start all over again!

So I will, but I'll go with Rose Point's Coastal Explorer instead. I'll still have to redo the whole system, but they're giving me an upgrade, from a package I bought back in 2002, for $99.00 instead of the 399.00 it normally costs. NOAA Charts are included for free and C-Map charts for the Bahamas are relatively inexpensive compared to Nobletec. Who needs 3D charting anyway?

So there Nobletec, take that!

Rant over.

Cheers,

Istaboa

Just one more thing!