Any UCDSAC member is more than welcome to start his or her own blog in here (preferably dive-related :-). To do so, login and use 'create content -> personal blog entry' link. Email club's PR officer/webmaster if you have any questions :-)

I've uploaded my photos from Lanzarote
click here
Including a 3.5m long sting ray!

Enjoy!

I love the handshake at the end..a whole different meaning to "you may now kiss the bride"!!

http://www.i-am-bored.com/bored_link.cfm?link_id=20858

Today I've installed an add-on to site's engine, called APC - Alternative PHP Cache. As a result, it should work a bit faster. Please, let me know whether that's the case (or not).

We have this :-)

I have been collecting statistics on this site visits for a number of months now, thanks to free service from Google Analytics. Here are the results of the last few months:

 

Site's Popularity

Average: 23 visits per day (depending on the month). When fresh photos are uploaded, we get a lot more visitors coming to the site at the same time, which can create a bottleneck.

Content Visit Statistics

or what people are looking at on this site:

70% gallery

13% front page

17% other information

Average Length of Visit

51% - less than 1 minute

17% - less than 3 minutes

18% - less than 10 minutes

14% - more than 10 minutes

Average Depth of Visit

or how many pages people are looking at

44% - one or two pages

29% - three to ten pages

24% - eleven to twenty pages or more

Visitor Loyalty

or how many times certain individuals visited this site

51% - 1 visit only

This afternoon I've upgraded the website to a newer version of content management. This will bring a bunch of new features to the site soon.

I don't think I'd like to meet one of these in the water... How about you?

Found this on a Russian techie's site. Made a mirror here...

Blue Hole, depth 112m:

Video (DivX, 6.13 MB)

Dive Safe!

Hi All,

I've just returned from Canada, where I went to see a film 'An Inconvenient Truth'. I was very impressed with this film and it also made me very concerned. It is about global warming - what will happen if we keep doing nothing.

You can view the trailer

with Apple Trailers:
http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount_classics/aninconvenienttruth/

or with YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUiP6dqPynE

More information is available at the official website of the film:
www.climatecrisis.net

I strongly encourage everyone to see it. I don't know when (and if) the film is coming to Ireland, so I've written a petition to Irish Film Institute. You can join me here