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Geoff Infield
New Zealand
Приєднався 6 лис 2006
Mostly my scuba diving videos with some motorbike and car stuff occasionally. Nothing fancy. Live on a boat.
Spring is here and I STILL hate it!
The ducks seem happy tho.
Classic Wellington NZ Spring - upside down lambs floating gracefully down swollen streams, often being carried gently aloft by a hurricane and dashed on rocks, completing the beautiful circle of life in a single day.
NZ doesn't have many poets. Or sheep if this carries on for the next six months as usual. Overachievers.
Ducks tho, ducks are cool.
Classic Wellington NZ Spring - upside down lambs floating gracefully down swollen streams, often being carried gently aloft by a hurricane and dashed on rocks, completing the beautiful circle of life in a single day.
NZ doesn't have many poets. Or sheep if this carries on for the next six months as usual. Overachievers.
Ducks tho, ducks are cool.
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(Briefly) Refloating the Sea Lion in Wellington Harbour
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Video shot 9th Oct 2022 from the end of Clyde Quay wharf, to which my home (Chaffers marina) is attached showing the refloated Sea Lion with divers still working on her, presumably replacing the oily rags with more reliable patches. [EDIT - not long after this video they gave up trying to patch and pump her out, and she slowly settled on the bottom again, at least til next weekend]. The Sea Lio...
96-gun salute to Queen Elizabeth II from Chaffers Marina, Wellington, NZ -
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I was just in time for the second(?) of 96 shots, but my camera battery died so I wasn't able to catch the reaction of the thousands gathered harbourside outside Te Papa, our national museum with the Hikitia - the "oldest working steam-powered self-propelled crane vessel in the word", born in the SAME year as Elizabeth - in the background after the final gun fired. It was respectfully quiet. Lo...
Handeling a stiff breeze like a boss (see what I did there? Can't play, can spell)
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Life on a boat in a marina in a gale is kinda like life in an apartment in a gale - just noisy. Especially around 3am this morning before the neighbour's wind turbine finally exploded, man it was screaming too, probably the best part of 1.21 gigawatts. Marinas are awesome. The noise I just made less so. Huge apology to Handel, Halvorsen. and the guy I pretend to insult (he's awesome) who actual...
Mikhail Lermontov wreck dive - Promenade deck port cabins
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20220626 In and out of cabins, camera tipped on its side 7mins in, so by sheer chance everything is now the right way up, except for divers, which was nice. Apologies for lousier than usual video, my main torch died on the last dive and I forgot to charge it and after the big lecture in the last video about how much I do with my right hand and why I should never put my camera on it, I left the ...
Mikhail Lermontov wreck dive - Shops, Nevski/Astoria bars, Bolshoi and topside
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20220626 Shops, Nevski/Astoria bars, Bolshoi and up and around the topside, taking our time through the middle and rummaging around a bit. Apologies for yet another ill-conceived 'camera on right hand' job, just one more then back to the selfie stick I finally found. Dunno if screwing the colour correction up burned out the last of the exterior but sorry about that! 00:00 Start 01:54 Elevator 0...
Mikhail Lermontov wreck dive - restaurant, between bars, bow, superstructure
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2022-06-25 Very untidy dive through the restaurant, up two flights and a slow filthy wander through what I think was the remains of the Nevski and/or Astoria bars and/or Store Rooms/Kitchen (detail are sketchy), then bow and around and about. Sorry for the stupid camera on the stupid right hand that does all the drysuit and wing inflating and deflating and torch zooming and mask adjusting and b...
Mikhail Lermontov wreck dive - duty free, lotta dolls.
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2022-06-25 The motherlode of chucky dolls (souvenir shop)? travelling stern to bow. Never been here before, nervous, and videoing from my right arm with a dive torch on my left was never going to win an Oscar sorry. Someone really needs to dust this place. 00:00 Port Gore weather 07:24 Boat deck elevator to lounge deck 08:13 Stairs down (not taken) 08:42 Silty shaky darkness begins 09:59 Chris ...
Mikhail Lermontov wreck dive - cargo hold and shops
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2022-06-24 not great viz and first time trying to get into the hold, mistakes were made, prefer to forget it 😅 The camera is right-wrist mounted (the hand that inflates drysuit and bcd) and usually points itself anywhere but where the left-wrist mounted torch is so it's pretty erratic, peaking when I'm reaching out for anything I can hold onto to stop silting the world out with my fins after 15...
AeroPress, for the perfect cup of boat-i-cano.
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For Angie - everyone needs an Aeropress. Apparently I needed three - one in the boat, and one in each office. I usually just whack the dregs out in the bin, the paper towel gave it's life to show the world what squashed coffee grinds look like.
Cleaning hull with FiFish V6 drone and home made tool
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The QYSEA FiFish V6 underwater drone is by FAR the Best thing I've bought in forever! It's capable of 4K video but I just use 1080p and 30fps to speed downloads from the unit so don't judge it by this video! Also note that my innovative Scraper-On-A-Stick(tm) is new so I kept being caught out by the nose lifting slightly when I floor it, but that's ME, not the FiFish which is superb. You'd thin...
It's that time of year again..
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Spring #2 or as the optimists call it, "summer". I'm fiddy-five years old, lived here in Wellington NZ since I was six, and this change to nine months a year of eternal equinoctial gales is alarming. I can't help but wonder if burning billions of tonnes of fossil fuels, massive increases in sea temperature and this fresh hell of wind and rain are related. Dunno, but it never hurts to err on the...
Passacaglia (Halvorsen) practice fail with info and links
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Trying to learn Handel's Passacaglia - the modern version young Halvorsen dropped back in 1893 - and I occasionally record myself for a reality check (I thought I was nailing it lol... reality checks are harsh). History of this version at www.colburnschool.edu/inside-music-halvorsens-passacaglia/ This was take two billion, and I was kinda over it already, sorry for the low volume. This is how i...
Spring kicked it up a notch.
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Still my favourite season to hate, and to date the only season that lasts nine months. Warm tho. The poor Bluebridge ferry had a go at parking but understandably bailed, it was even windier before I recorded this. So naturally I tried to save the kayak by moving it to the swim platform at the sheltered end. HUGE mistake. Who'd have thought holding a 2.7m plastic kayak in a hurricane could be da...
At the risk of being repetitive, what do poets see in Spring anyway?
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At the risk of being repetitive, what do poets see in Spring anyway?
Lockdown walk thru 2021 version - stop worrying! :)
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Lockdown walk thru 2021 version - stop worrying! :)
2021-06-04 Mikhail Lermontov - pool, lobby, elevator, to cargo hatch
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2021-06-04 Mikhail Lermontov - pool, lobby, elevator, to cargo hatch
2021-06-06 Mikhail Lermontov - stern and all port cabins to bow
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2021-06-06 Mikhail Lermontov - stern and all port cabins to bow
How Windy Wellington got its nickname.
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How Windy Wellington got its nickname.
More Flybridge fireworks - Chinese New Year!
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More Flybridge fireworks - Chinese New Year!
New Year's flybridge fireworks in Wellington, NZ (feat. Jame's baby yoda)
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New Year's flybridge fireworks in Wellington, NZ (feat. Jame's baby yoda)
Atrocious Romanza (Part 1) summary thing
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Atrocious Romanza (Part 1) summary thing
SS President Coolidge Night Dive (23 Oct 2018)
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SS President Coolidge Night Dive (23 Oct 2018)
Clyde Quay Marina yachts in strong northerly, and the late Auntie Emma who sank four days prior :(
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Clyde Quay Marina yachts in strong northerly, and the late Auntie Emma who sank four days prior :(
Home made mooring compensator getting a workout - brilliant!
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Home made mooring compensator getting a workout - brilliant!
I envisioned you laying in a hammock on the deck with VR goggles and a tropical drink in a nearby holder. LOL
When I'm more confident I'll graduate from the couch 🙂 I'm scared of the VR thingie it came with, it's just a cellphone holder with lenses and I've never used it but I must have considered it at least once cos I left it on the couch without a phone in it one day and much much later I smelt something burning. Damned thing had turned the sun into a laser beam and burned several holes clean through the plastic and was having a go at the couch - given how much time my arse spends on that couch it would probably have burnt me to the waterline within five minutes if it got a hold 😅
Nice idea!