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Have a look at a quick clip on YouTube regarding the expedition diving in Benin, uploaded on lower quality.
Diving in Benin
Diving in rough seas and bad viz in Senegal:
Senegal underwater

If you go the the YOUTUBE website, and type in the search toggle, Marine Resource Expedition, you will find a short 3 minute clip of scenes in Morocco that we filmed earlier this year. The quality is not great, but that is my fault, as I did not know what compression to render the clip [...]

Marine Expedition in Norway
Check it out, I hope you understand Norwegian.
ALSO THE STATS PAGE HAS BEEN UPDATED, SO HAVE A LOOK AT ALL THE DISTANCES, FUEL EXPENSES, BRIBES ETC THAT HAVE ACCRUED ALONG THE 32 000 ODD KILOMETERS THE EXPEDITION HAS TRAVELED THUS FAR.

ADMIN:
We have fixed some of the technical hitches on the website, [...]

Aquaculture thoughts and concerns for Africa
Aquaculture is the controlled production of aquatic species for human and industrial use. It is the fastest growing food-producing sector and is perceived as having the greatest potential in meeting the growing demand for aquatic food. According to the FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization) an increase in production of 30 [...]

Im sitting on the banks of the Okla river, heading into northern Norway, not quite sure how or when we managed to get this far.
It seems like just the other day we had landed in Madrid, Spain, and whoosh, now were halfway up Europe. Ok more than halfway in fact. I remember reading in The [...]

We decided to bypass Caen on arrival as it looked like a big city with a network of chaos for roads. Instead we headed out of town to a small village called Houlgate, perched on the coast next to a quaint little harbour. Once again it was into a campsite, as we were not allowed [...]

Hi there every one!!
So as you might be aware, the expedition is doing well and we are presently heading from Northern Norway and in a few weeks time will be heading into the winters of Russia and Siberia.
And in a few months time we will be heading into Christmas again, and for us a very [...]

I particularly enjoyed leaving Spain, it is a fantastic country, and Madrid is magnificent, but moving into France was like we were accomplishing something, it felt like we were really moving at that Oslo was getting closer. We though we got up early to hit the road, actually in Linda’s defense she was up rather [...]

Arriving back in Spain was a relief, firstly no more flying, but more importantly back to our car, which had been standing in our dear friends Manolo and Catolo’s garden. We were very fortunate and grateful for their kindness in looking after the car for such a long time, and we are truly grateful. Linda [...]

Linda’s View:
I was not quite sure what to expect form America. The last time I had been here was when I was 12 years old and the most I had seen was two weeks in Disney land in Florida…not quite the American experience (well maybe not completely) Regardless my only images to draw on were [...]