Great camera for underwater use

Advantages: Light, complete with carry strap.
Disadvantages: Button is just a little difficult to press

...I bought this product this summer, because in was in Sydney this summer and decided to go to the Great Barrier Reef too. So I got there and thought I'd better take an underwater camera, so I bought this Kodak one, as it was the only one in the store. The waterproof casing looked rather dubious, but dont be fooled, for this is one sound, good working camera. It comes with a strap, so you needn't carry it underwater. I processed it, and my coral pictures came out beautifully. And at £8 pounds, I think that it is an excellent product, for now my memories have been immortalised....

dip10020 09.10.2000 · Read review
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Review of Kodak Weekender Underwater Disposable camera

Try smiling underwater!

Advantages: Too many to list
Disadvantages: How do you pronounce Mju?

...'s a rechargeable lithium type. I always find these much better and longer lasting. And finally the big one. Wouldn't it be great if you had a camera that you could jump into the pool with?!! Not one that went into some silly kind of plastic bag contraption, just a normal camera that will take underwater pictures. Guess what......tick, this camera is waterproof to ten metres, brilliant for the swimming pool. You can take some amazing pictures that you wouldn't have dreamt of before! Put all of the above together and the great news about this camera is it is pretty bullet proof. You can drop it, step on it, submerge it or freeze it and it will still work. Just have to hope I don't lose it, that seems to be the only thing Olympus hadn't thought of. It is expensive. I paid £235 + another £12 for a memory card, but I'm looking at this bad...

dickyj 14.01.2009 · Read review
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Review of Olympus µ[MJU:] 1030 SW

Toy Story - underwater

Advantages: Pure entertainment, safe
Disadvantages: Bland, Predictable

...film 'An American Tail' - in which Fievel, a small Russian mouse becomes separated from it's parents, and the adventures of both the hero, and his parents become reunited in the 'promised land' of the good-ol' U-S of A, except this time, the story is transported twelve thousand miles to the Great Barrier Reef of Australia, and of course, most of the action takes place underwater. Pixar used a similar story line in the technically groundbreaking 1995 feature 'Toy Story' - and the somewhat better 1999 sequel (if rather unimaginatively named) 'Toy Story 2'. It was, therefore, with a certain degree of resignation that I took the wife and kids to 'Finding Nemo', with the full expectation of being distracted for an hour and a half, rather than entertained. Nobody could have been more surprised than I to find it wasn't as dreadful little...

dobieg 12.10.2003 · Read review
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Review of Finding Nemo (DVD)

Underwater Paradise - Mahe

Advantages: crystal waters, high abundance and diversity of fish, whale sharks are regular visitors
Disadvantages: lots of damaged coral

...uninhabited isle neighbouring Therese, and is typical of the area with steep granite cliffs, and scattered boulders. I always found Conception an interesting dive because there are visibly different zones as you near the shore. On descent the bottom is flat sand with a few rocky outcrops and the odd pelagic fish. Moving towards the island, there is a huge bank of dead decomposing coral, which although a bit depressing to look at is teeming with feeding parrotfish, wrasse and butterflyfish. Nearest to the shore is a diverse topography of boulders, sporting members of the surgeon family, sweetlips, angelfish, triggerfish and squirrelfish. There are several operators in the main tourist hub of Beau Vallon. I can recommend the Underwater Centre next to the Coral Strand Hotel (www.diveseychelles.com.sc), which provides room and dive packages, and is...

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Review of Seychelles (Dive Sites)

Underwater realism

Advantages: Realism, i.e. story, characters, performances, underwater effects.
Disadvantages: The actors' Russian accents

...there's nobody to blame). More importantly, 'K-19' destroys the American grotesque myth according to which all Soviet/Russian personnel were just a bunch of poorly-trained drunkards. Far from it, history now teaches us. Exceptional people were victimised by bureaucracy, the political class and the race against the Americans. A lot of errors resulted from this diabolic concoction. Even before going to sea, the submarine received the name 'The Widow Maker' while, after the accident, it became known in the Navy as 'Hiroshima' until its retirement in 1990 (!!). The prime quality of the movie is its realism and dynamism. The underwater sequences are truly superb while the sub's surfacing inside the Arctic Circle through the icecap are breathtaking. The frightening confinement of the boat, the living conditions, the danger and constant peril...

C_C_Ryder 01.11.2002 · Read review
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Water World!

Advantages: Amazing experience, great price, once in a lifetime thing!
Disadvantages: Not for those afraid of water lol

...When I found out I was going to Mauritius, I thought it would give me the chance to do one of the things that I have always wanted to do, and that is a Walking Underwater Experience. I love being in the water, and the thought of being in deep water, in an exotic island, amongst the fishes sounded like paradise to me. Therefore I was thrilled when I went to Grand Baie and they told me that they offered it as a trip! I instantly booked my place, and had to wait another week before I had the chance to go "under the sea"! As I just mentioned above, my Underwater Walking event happened in Grand Baie, which is one of the most beautiful tourist beaches in Mauritius. It has gorgeous white sand, turqouise blue seas, and many different water sports and adventures for people to try out. A few examples of these include jet-skiing, day trips...

mummy2harry 15.01.2008 · Read review
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Review of Underwater Walking Experience, Grand Baie, Mauritius

The Underwater Realm

Advantages: Learning done at the pace you need
Disadvantages: Members don't know how good it really is!

...Have you ever considered diving? By diving I mean Sub-Aqua diving or more commonly known as Scuba diving. You may be aware of the concept from television, e.g. Jacques Cousteau’s Underwater World, or from James Bond movies, e.g. Dr No or Thunderball. Did you know that Britain has a number of organisations that can teach you this sport? These organisations have different ways of teaching that can suit your life style. Organisations PADI Professional Association of Diving Instructors A predominantly American organisation that has links across the world. Mostly resort based and willing to teach you in weekly chunks of time. SSI Scuba Schools International An organisation that runs in a similar way to PADI. However, of European origins. BSAC British Sub-Aqua Club An organisation that sets up local branches and dive...

sean0107 01.11.2004 · Read review
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Review of BSAC (British Sub-Aqua Club)

An Underwater Wonderland

Advantages: Superb corals and colourful fish.
Disadvantages: A long journey

...a boat and three guys at my service. We journeyed to Phi Phi Li, the smaller of the two islands, before they helped me kit up (its not easy on these narrow boats) and we entered the warm water (24 degrees)., We dropped down to 10 metres within seconds to the most amazing display of colour I had ever seen. I was carrying an underwater cine camera which had only a 3.5 minute filming capacity, and I used the lot in the first five minutes. I’ve seen better since, but only in the Caymans. After 50 minutes of wondrous scenery we surfaced to find the boat an arm’s length away – they’d followed us all the way. Max depth was 15 metres and even a Novice Diver could have coped. Lunch was served on a deserted beach of this beautiful little island – a selection of hot food stored in an insulated container made...

petehall 17.01.2001 · Read review
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Review of Thailand (Dive Sites)

Underwater in Gibraltar

Advantages: Fun in the sun
Disadvantages: It is not an island

...Sticking out of the bottom of Spain the Rock of Gibraltar is an unusual diving destination. Almost undiscovered by British divers, it offers a wealth of wreck, historical and scenic dives with warm(-ish) water within striking distance for a holiday. ------------------------------------------------------------------- HISTORY ------------------------------------------------------------------ The Rock of Gibraltar is part of the sea floor upended by powerful geological processes and dropped at the southern tip of Europe to form one of the Pillars of Hercules guarding the entrance to the Mediterranean. Underwater, the topography follows that of the land with a steeply shelving seabed. Neanderthal man lived in the caves around Gibraltar between 120,000 and 60,000 years ago and the Rock was visited by Phoenician and Roman sea...

sean0107 16.11.2004 · Read review
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Review of Gibraltar

Too Easy to be Enjoyable

Advantages: Quite nice for young children...
Disadvantages: ... far too easy for anyone else...

...Finding Nemo: Nemo's Underwater World of Fun is a typical example of a movie tie-in game gone wrong. Sure, it's very nicely presented and has some clips from the movie for you to watch, but there's no substance to it at all. Basically what we have here is a collection of simple mini-games, which when completed let you play a different mini-game. When you've completed that? you've completed the game. (To be fair you can go back and play any of the seven different games again, and the difficulty level will go much higher than needed for to complete the basic game, but why would you?) The best thing about the movie was that although kids loved it, it was just as enjoyable (perhaps even more so) for adults, because of the different layers of humour. With this game it's purely for young children (who may love it) - the games are very...

CaptainDisaster 22.03.2007 · Read review
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