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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 ...

During last May's ChinaICT conference Imagethief was interviewed by the Christine Lu of the China Business Network. I spoke mostly about my background, the blog and what I thought people interested in working in China should do. The video is online at ChinaOnTV at: http://www.chinaontv.com/index.php/video_play_new/E11504 or, if you're in ...

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 ...

When Imagethief was a lad he was (as his father will gladly tell you) something of a pyro. I always looked forward to the fourth of July, Independence Day, when fireworks are traditionally set off in the United States. They were banned in San Francisco, where I was living, but sold legally ten minutes up the freeway in Daly City. Every year we ...

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 ...