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Well, I haven't got any good photos from the dive, it wasn't really the best conditions for photography. There's some up at Flickr if you're interested.
The dive itself was excellent, I saw some big sandtigers, tope and rays!

As I was waiting to descend (you have to climb down a rope to the main part of the tank) a sandtiger swam past. As her dorsal fin cut through the water, what with the unnatural lighting and bits of metal grating jutting out of the water and the over head walk way, it reminded me of Deep Blue Sea. Awesome! We had to cut the dive a little short as the sharks had started circling and getting a bit too familiar. I also got in trouble for standing up (you're meant to stay close to the floor so as not to disturb the mid-level shark traffic). But it's hard to remember all that stuff when there's supercool massive fish whizzing about. It feels like it happened ages ago, it was a really unique experience for me, it all seems so surreal. Now it's like a memory of a dream that happened to someone else on telly.
Thanks to Malcy for letting us stay over at such short notice. It turns out there are no trains out of Edinburgh after 7.00. I think it's some ploy to make you stay there at expensive festival season prices. Malcy has some excellent new comics out, I read them a few days ago and they're great. I've reviewed them for Comics International, so I won't say much more about them now.
I'm just getting Monstrum ready to send off to publishers for consideration. I'm still planning on self-publishing so if they all turn it down it doesn't matter. I'm teaching in Sunderland tomorrow and generally keeping very busy at the moment (so, of course I've had a ton of neat ideas for new projects.) I seem to mainly be creative underpressure.
Hey, anyone going to the Birmingham comic convention (October) or Angouleme (January)? I'll make it to some comic event in the near future, hopefully both of those.