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Regular readers will recall that Imagethief recently accompanied Steven Schwankert of Sinoscuba to dive a section of the Great Wall that lies underwater in a reservoir at Panjiakou, near Tangshan. A prior blog post about that trip is here. We had an Associated Press camera crew with us on that trip, and their video ran on various television ...

The Denver CBS affiliate has more of the AP video of our trip to dive the Great Wall on Sunday. This clip includes two brief segments of me in full cold-water regalia talking about the experience. Somehow I appear to have upstaged Steven, who actually organized the trip and also talked to camera (sorry, Steve). Be warned: You have to sit through ...

Along with Sinoscuba impresario Steven ''Commando'' Schwankert, Imagethief hauled himself and approximately four tons of gear out to Xifenghu on Sunday to dive a sunken section of Great Wall. Xifenghu is a reservoir near Tangshan. It takes about three and a half hours to drive out to and, as we discovered, nearly six to return from when your ...

I've posted to YouTube a video of the trip I took to Changhbaishan last summer with Mrs. Imagethief and my father. It took me the better part of a year to get around to editing it, but here it is. Changbaishan is the rugged mountain range that divides northeast China from the Korean peninsula. There is a ''nature reserve'' a few hours drive ...