Expedition

Favre-Leuba Bathy 120 Memodepth Experience

Favre-Leuba’s Raider Bathy 120 Memodepth is the only diving mechanical tool watch of it's kind. Measuring depth and maximum depth UP TO 120 meters while using a fully mechanical movement.

Favre-Leuba has a long-standing heritage dating back to 1737, making it the second oldest Swiss watchmaker. Creating companion watches for those who conquer frontiers.

Our testing with the watch proved that it works flawlessly, showing accurate depth readings at all the targeted expedition spots we wanted to explore.

The spots in our expedition while using the watch were unexplored by us (undocumented locations) and the watch proved it’s worth by allowing us to record accurate depth readings at that location, while showing us the maximum depth we achieved at that day which was 15 meters respectively (while freediving), that was at the location’s ocean floor where we usually inspect healthy reefs and determine how cooler currents affect shallow-water coral reefs. We are always interested to see the defining line between a high density coral reef area and the point or line where reefs can’t survive anymore, which often looks like a featureless sand flat or a rocky fall into greater depths.

The watch is made out of titanium, which is light and durable at the same time, perfect for our adventures. It’s winding mechanism is robust and feels of high quality. The rotating bezel is clicky and never got jammed or felt that it would fail us any time soon. The numbers and readings are quite accurate and visible allowing us to easily determine depth and time while underwater. The rubber strap while hard to adjust for casual wearers, is solid and durable. This watch is clearly made for people with the purpose of conquering frontiers. It’s both a beautiful watch for daily wearers, and an extremely useful tool, best of both worlds. The watch isn’t cheap, but it’s capabilities, engineering, and design are all well worth it.

We'd like to thank Favre-Leuba for choosing us in this exciting experience, giving us the chance to test one of the most unique mechanical watches ever created, built for conquering frontiers.

Click here to check out the Bathy 120 Memodepth.

We were at Mirihi Resort

 

Naw recently came back from exploring the renowned Mirihi Resort at the Alif Dhaal Atoll, which is surrounded by a famous 6km coral reef, one of the largest in Maldives. We loved the concept and enjoyed the vision that Mirihi is trying to portray, 1st rule "No TVs", 2nd rule "No pools", these missing amenities created a deeper connection between us and our surroundings, which is exactly the point of disconnecting and relaxation, and mind you this is a 5 star highly rated resort. Anyway, back to the most important part, marine life and our encounters. Most notable are Manta Rays, Blacktip Reef Sharks, Whitetip Reef Sharks, Turtles, and few Lion Fish. Reef sharks were a common sight, and the reef there is still sustaining marine life, why that surprises us is exactly the point of our trip, which is "coral bleaching". Coral bleaching has plagued a lot if not all of the Maldives, and that's due to a change in water temperatures as reported by biologists. Though Mirihi staff members claim that they are one of the least affected, that we can't be sure of. The reef looked pale and grey, still supporting marine life, yet this same pale color extends down to 6 - 8 meters on the warmer side of the island.

Free-Diving down to 18 meters and enjoying the fore-reef slope from the ocean floor is definitely a better experience, as the colder waters have preserved the colors found in healthy reefs. While we enjoyed our trip, we can't but feel sad in our hearts to witness 6km of coral reef, bleaching and fading away into a pale shadow of grey, colorless, like a city struck by a nuclear bomb, nothing is left behind except destruction. Older generations who traveled to the Maldives, have mentioned the colorful beautiful reefs that they witnessed underwater, like one can imagine, a box full of colorful jewels. This is our 3rd trip to the Maldives, and unfortunately, the the Maldives isn't the what it used to be, the shallow colorful reefs have faded, and we might never witness what our fathers and grandfathers have witnessed, except at deeper depths and with a proper torch. The unfortunate question is, what will we leave for our children and grandchildren, a pile of rocks? plastics filled beaches? Confined endangered marine mammals? All of the above.. Let's strive for a better future, not for us, but for our grandchildren, because that's how long it would take to start reversing the damage done by greed.

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We were at Reethi Faru Resort

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Naw is back from a wonderful island (Reethi Faru in the Raa Atoll) that has been recently opened to the public. The main purpose of this trip was to explore a virgin island that hasn't been polluted by humans yet. Unfortunately we have found that the reef surrounding the project was unhealthy at the time of our visit (February 9, 2018) and in a recovering state due to construction.

So, although this is a virgin island, construction has taken a negative toll on the reef surrounding it. It may take another 5 - 10 years for the reef to grow again.

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