ras goma

A fantastic day

looking for hammerheads

finding Ras Goma

a video from Valentina, Liquid Jungle

I will survive!

Yeah, right:  'Gloria Gaynor is now a PADI course director', Steve says .

"At first I was afraid , I was petrified

I could not stand the contact of the water with my eyes..."

And here we go: Deco Boys again! Live in Sharm

pure genius

sharmers cross the white desert by MTB - the video

We ere eleven bikers, all scuba-divers.
In March 2014 by our mountain bikes we cross the Egyptian Western Desert from Bahariya's Oasis to Farafra's Oasis. We were the first bikers ever to cross this area. A marvelous chance to enjoy the silence and test our skills in a breath-taking surrounding.


camera: Frederick Di Girolamo and Andrea de Laurentiis

join White Desert Project on YouTube

in Italian (use  Google translator)
http://nonsoloshamandura.blogspot.ch/2014/03/il-western-desert-in-mountain-bike.html#more

sharm's eco warriors

Francesco taking over the column Sharm's Eco Warrior
It says a lot about how we still keep in touch, still surprising each other by meeting unexpectedly, in quite unlikely places and circumstances,.

Francesco Germi (dr.Livingstone) and Claudio Di Manao
Mix-Mag 06/09

shamandura generation at T2

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How 2 stars were born in Sharm: the Deco Boys

It was a sunny, warm and dry December day and Thomas was laughing at me:

“Ah-ah-ah! I cannot believe it: you thought the ‘Shamandura’ was just the name of the store in Naama Bay! Ah-ah!”

Yeah, I had thought the crew was talking about the supermarket underneath McDonald's. And I made the mistake to tell the story to my friends.
At that time McDonald's and Shamandura were already there, just to tell you that I am not a ‘pioneer’ of Sharm but I am just an early sharmer, early enough to have enjoyed the comforts of

the ‘Pigeon House’.  

Well, 

back to those days: the crew was very upset with me, I was not able to tie the rope to the sea floor, because I did  not understand the meaning of shamandura = mooring. I have to say that at that time most of the crews never made the smallest effort to explain anything in any language (even if they could speak many!) to the ‘fresh’ divemasters. 

They rather played you tricks and give you as much shit as they could.

Sometime risking their boats.

I thought it was… (the whole thing was!) such an absurd and surreal situation that really looked (depending on the angle of the sun and on the mood) hilarious, really funny, or...  devastating.

Then: one day me, Steve (Turley) and Thomas (Chabanne) decided to write down a song. Steve and Thomas were  real musicians, which I was not (everybody was a real musician compared to me) and so we started.
The first song was (of course!) Shamandura Blues. It took us some time to get done. Let’s say: a couple of beers. Then Steve came (with a new entry) and changed a bit here and there, revolutionized a few riffs, added a few jokes, trimmed the lyrics and then ‘we got the shamandoora blues!. (quote.)

The Deco Boys were born
And it happened in my flat
Khaled Abu Seif's Houses,
Sea Street,
el Hadaba
Sharm el Sheikh

They became a phenomenon.
Steve and Thomas carried on with plenty of fantastic new tunes, made out of clever, sarcastic parodies: the stuff real humor is made of.

 I was involved lesser and lesser while writing ‘Shamandura Generation’ my first book about the same subjects and on the same ‘vibes’ of the deco boys songs... in simple words I was writing about Sharm el Sheikh's diving community. therefore about us as well.

And it became (as well) an unexpected hit.

and here we are

more is coming 

coming soon!

- to be continued

claudio di manao

Free Diving The THISTLEGORM - VIDEO: Save the Legend

The SS Thistlegorm wreck is collapsing. We are losing a beautiful historical document from the WWII.
A group of professional divers from Sharm el Sheikh decided to celebrate this 'Legend' wreck by filming a Free Diving champion: Andrea Zuccari. Andrea dives the wreck while making no bubbles.
enjoy this nice video from Fred

fred's channel

freddigirolamo