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So we ended up going with Jack's Diving Locker.  Was a pretty amazing experience - we went on their scheduled night and it was just the 2 of us on the boat, and chartered the boat for a second night (again just us 2) - if you can wing it that you are the only ones on the boat, it is a very special experience.  The dive guides were in the water but for them it was a pleasure dive since they didn't have to worry about us.  Each dive was ~75 minutes and some fantastic things floated by.  Matt D'Avella (JDL's resident expert) takes a bit of warming up to (and likewise him to us) but we had a good time diving with him.  He'll also give you good tips if you listen....

 

Here's a video I pulled together of my footage - pretty happy with the results though I wish I had a week of consecutive diving to work the kinks out.  One big recommendation: bring a sh*% load of light - Matt the dive guide had 5 lights on his rig!!!  My 2 Sola 1200s were woefully inadequate.  

 

 

Really nice work, Davide!!!!  BIG thumbs up!

but Oliver(11mths) was a little too young and just shouted 'egg' while trying to hit the screen.

How interesting, my husband (40) did the same thing!!!

I thought I might share this with those of you with young children.  About 9 months ago, Ellie, a daughter of our friends in the US, sent us "Little Bear" - a photocopy of a character that the children in her class have been reading about in books.  She asked us to show him around Sydney, and send him and a postcard back so she could share his adventures with her 1st grade class.

We did something even better: we laminated Little Bear and took him diving with us around Sydney Harbour and some of the coastal sites. We showed him the wonderful underwater life and made a video for Ellie to share!

(I realised that after rendering the movie and deleting my Final Cut project, that the Port Jackson shark wasn't a Port Jackson shark (no harness markings), but a Crested Hornshark, so apologies for the mistake but it's there to stay.  ).  (By the way, am I the only person who cringes at the sound of their own recorded voice?)

Filmed on a Sony HDRXR550 in a Light and Motion Bluefin Pro housing with Sola 1200 lights.

Hope your children enjoy it!




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