We left Jeddah at 0600H May 7, 2006 - the start of the red sea expedition. Its major intention is to film coral reefs and underwater creatures and also photograph birds and islands of the red sea to make a movie “Red Sea My Planet” Part 2 and Part 3 in order to raise awareness in the preservation of the beautiful red sea. Among the crew are: Myself – the skipper, the director and photographer of the expedition; Manolis Klimataras as first mate; Aristotle Dadiz as chief engineer and camera assistant, Panagiotis Korianitis as chief engineer too, Hattan, my good friend who volunteered to be in charge of getting some fresh fish; and Abdulrahman Hakeem as my dive buddy. Our first port of destination is Al Lith for refuel. Along the way to Al Lith, we had various stops for dive locations and filmed underwater and took photographs. We visited amazing dive sites, identified many migratory and resident sea birds, dolphin homes, turtle nesting, whale shark and sharks, live coral, animonis, soft ...
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I guess that the reason for the block was the photos of the birds,,get it (BIRDS), yes we are trying to unblock it, and thanks for your comments, I look forward to you joining us on our next expedition as discussed.
Sarantis,
Thanx Capt.Sarantis, you are funny, we're not asleep at the wheel either,we need to find more ancient wrecks, wouldn't that be great? regards to the crew.
Janet,
Thanx, I appreciate your comments, our environment is our responsiblity, it is the only one we got, it is worth preserving, 2moro nite we will be searching for turtle nesting, we may get lucky and post some photos. in a few minutes our reefchief scientist Abdullah Alsuhaibany is going to post scientific information about redsea SEA birds using the photos i took, and some of his, I have identified 5 species, there are 17 species in the red sea.