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Avid outdoorsman and underwater photographer, Barry Brown has spent the last seven years documenting life above and below water in Curacao, Netherlands Antilles. Focusing on the island's coral reefs, he has worked hand-in-hand with several businesses and environmental groups, including SECORE, a marine conservation organization based in the Netherlands. His image of a research submersible was recently featured on the cover of DIVER magazine.

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Dec 27, 08     Comments Off
rocket-ride

rocket-ride

Hello readers,  this is our friend Avila doing what we call “the Rocket Ride”!  What’s a Rocket ride you ask??  Well first of all you have to be a really good swimmer and be able to hold your breath!  Normally how this is done is the trainer is pushed by their feet by one or two dolphins to the bottom of the lagoon at high speed!  Once under the water as deep as they can get the dolphins push them straight up and into thin air, from there you can dive, do a back flip or just do a nice straight feet first landing as seen here, it’s very exciting to watch!  For some of you that have been with me the whole time you remember Aimee doing this and the insane swan dives she used to do, boy was that a long time ago!  Also since we are headed down memory lane, this is the same Avila that swam with baby Papito in 2004, that was my first baby I ever saw and photographed and she was part of it.  Our little Avila is not so little anymore, she is here on holiday but lives in Holland and is going to school in Sweden, this girl can tell you stories as she has been all over doing all kinds of cool things!
 
Today was rain, rain, rain again, geez I just can’t believe it?  Aimee took her sister and parents on a two hour snorkel along the coast this morning starting at the Saba tugboat.  From there they drifted with the current almost a mile back to the Sea Aquarium, they had a great time!  I worked all day in the rain and came home soaked, it’s now time for dinner and then off to bed! 
 
Have a great weekend, Barry
12-27-2008



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