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UPDATE DEC 2011
ICE is now in Fiji for the Cyclone season. We set sail again on April 17th 2012 for Tonga and should arrive about five days later. We have a new partner joining the Bluetreasure team. Mark Belvedere has been a friend for some time and has officially signed on as our man on the ground in Tonga. He has his own Pirate ship in Cabo! and lives on Eueiki Island( which he owns) in the Vavau group. This will become our Tongan base. There are many things happening as we speak, so next season promises to be very exciting.
I am now looking for three permanent crew for next season. Sign on April 7th till Nov 20th.when we return to Fiji. We are filming the entire season, you need to dive and be prepared for anything! We all cook, work and have fun together….see crew section for details…this season was not as we expected but next season may be BIG, that is all I can say…watch this space! Blogs get active from Beginning of March.
I am off to Antarctica for summer and Jane is looking after ICE. Have a good Xmas!
November 2010
Life can move in mysterious ways. We all suffer from ¡°One day?¡± Well I recently spent three years building the ultimate expedition dive support boat in China, without wanting to say ¡°what or when¡± it would do anything, just knowing that one day the time would come. I know plans change and I am no different, so for the last couple of years, that boat ¡°ICE www.mcintyre50ms.com has been hovering in Subic in the Philippines, dormant, waiting for an opportunity to get out there and ¡°do it!¡±
Fate is a big part of my life. For the past four years I have been saying often, ¡° Time to get wet!¡± Not just with salt spray hitting me in the face from sailing solo around the world, or splash back in a little open boat trying to survive in a big Pacific ( been there done that) No, I mean WET underwater! I have been scuba diving since I was 15, have dived some of the most amazing places in the world and consider the Australian Great Barrier Reefs a second home. Problem is I am never home!
My last ¡°BLUE ADVENTURE¡± was in 2003 onboard my 36mtr helicopter equipped Ice ship ¡°Sir Hubert Wilkins¡± treasure hunting in the Philippines. That ship, supported by Dick Smith Foods, was equipped with the works, surface breathing gear, Nitrox, 5 man, two stage Recompression Chamber, ROV¡¯s etc and we had a lot of fun( not just there but in Antarctica). We never found the gold! In April this year I was in Tonga about to set out on another little adventure www.taliskerbountyboat.com and really fell in love with everything about the ¡°Friendly Isles¡±. Then just days before leaving that exotic place, I stumbled across something. Herein lies the intrigue¡is it a Treasure map? an Opportunity? a Roomer? Or just another Blue Dream? ..Well it could be all of these and more, or it could be nothing at all!! Life is an adventure and it is now for certain, so we are off!
It does not stop there. Since becoming involved with this new Blue Dream, I have had people approaching me with ¡°stories¡± that could see me headed to other parts of the world chasing? ¡well lets just say I have always wanted to own a cannon!!!
So, here we are with another web site and another adventure, eight months across the Pacific that you can be part of if you have that spark! passion! a desire to live and explore life! I am looking for crew! I have promised 20% of any treasure coming my way to the Sheffield Institue Foundation (SIF) to help in the fight against MND and yes that could amount to nothing or $$$. Who knows?? Why buy a lottery ticket when you can have more fun out there doing it. It is not the destination right! It is all about the journey and what better reason to get wet, than chase a bit of real history and the Blue Dream. Can¡¯t say much more at this point, but watch this space!
We set sail on April 2nd from the Subic Yacht club in the Philippines bound for adventure and the unknown, sailing through some of the most spectacular places on this planet. Micronesia, and Palau, Yap, Truk, Pohnpei, Kosrae, then Kiribati, Northern Gilberts and Phoenix Islands, Wallis and Futuna (Google those spots and imagine the diving? See LINKS page.) arriving in Tonga 12 weeks later. Plenty to do when we get there, but more on that later.
Whales will be our constant companion in Tonga and beyond our ¡°project¡±, we hope to be surveying many sites around the ¡°Friendly Isles¡± with our onboard Flying boat! Everything is being filmed for an international Documentary. ICE will sail for New Zealand end of November to sit out the cyclone season before returning again in 2012.
If you are a Pirate! Deck Officer! Dive master! Cook! Engineer! Comedian! or just have a real Passion for life and want to do something, maybe you should think about joining the team! You are welcome for the eight months or just for a month? If you are a dreamer like me..then just have fun following the blog. I really have no idea what is going to happen, but I have to tell you, the story so far in the last eight months has blown my socks off!!..so watch this space.. |
