.::dive:islands:by:altug:kirisoglu:(c):2005::.

This is another fictious scenery having one main and some small islands on  a wide area with new water and land texture. 
Frame rates I experienced are between 45 (facing open sea) and 10 (facing the main islands at some points). 
The main island has a big port and city. 
There are 4 underwater sites to discover by diving ;).

One of the sites is connected to the surface by a guiding line. 
Very near to this site there is a diving platform on the surface. 
Go around the islands and find this diving platform. 
The yellow buoy next to the platform is attached to the guiding line. 
After reading the below diving instructions, when you feel ready ;) 
Go underwater following this red line which will guide you to the 1st site. 
This is for practice of underwater movements.
After this experience, go search for the other 3 sites by your own.

Tip: look for the dolphin couples on the surface with your boat.  
When you find a dolphin couple, you are near the site. Go diving and find the site.

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Diving Instructions (lol):

Warming Up:
Menu>View>View Options>'Camera Options' ' Velocity' : For all items pull the bars to the right, at max.
Good now you are warmed up , can move faster;)

Leaving the Boat:
Stop your boat. Menu>View : choose 'Free' 

Put your googles:
Put cam to a wide angle view: | ALT+Numpad - | . 
( ZOOM OUT   to 80 or more 'field of view'. At the info bar at the bottom of screen you will see 'field of view'
increasing up to 100)

Diving:

Now cam is you :)

Look left: 		| Numpad 4 | 
Look Right: 	| Numpad 6 |
Look Up: 		| Numpad 8 |
Look Down: 	| Numpad 2 |

Go down, dive to the bottom: 	| Numpad - |
Go up, to the surface: 	| Numpad + |

Go ahead (horizontally): 	| ALT+Numpad 8 |
Go backwards (horizontally):	| ALT+Numpad 2 |

Strafe Left:	| ALT+Numpad 4 |
Strafe Righ: 	| ALT+Numpad 2 |

While doing these movements if you hold | CTRL | the movements are faster.

First steps:
At first press  | ALT+Numpad - | untill you hit the bottom then move on the bottom.

Returning to your Boat:
Go to surface next to your boat. Menu>View : choose 'From Helmsman'
Or dont bother with going to surface to your boat, teleport yourself :) to the boat directly :)

What to do when you get lost underwater:
Tip1:  When you get lost in the total blue color, press | Numpad - | until you hit the bottom than find your way.
Tip2: Open Chart viewer (press | 2 |) the thin blue V shaped line is your cams position, I mean your position ;)

Finally, If you have Scenery Designer Toolkit and if you dont want to bother with diving experience with a bit 
mystery open the scenery file and look for the underwater 3d items :)
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For a nice blue sky giving the summer feeling, setup:
	Menu>Environment>Settings>General>Visibility : 10 nm.
	Menu>Environment>Settings>Clouds: Only Layer 1 at 500m with Cloud Type 0
	Ps: Dont get far  away from the islands, you may get lost and reach the blue skies ;)

If you play this scenery in Motorboat Simulator 1.2, delete the
aksky.3sd (first item in the scenery's 3sd list) with the help of
Scenery Designer Toolkit.
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Lights are not lit except the tankers so night sailing/cruising is not advised...

enjoy!

altug
february 2005