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Dolphin Dream set out from Palm Beach, Florida, last week. Once more in search of the dolphins and sharks of the Little Bahama Bank, bearing Brits under the benign eye of Charles Hood (now well-known in Cornwall for his own shark-diving trips) and the glittering eyes of skipper "Scott" Smith (well-known for the Shell Dance, of which the less said, the better).

 

A little wind and rain marred the first few days, and the dolphins, having acquired a sense of photographic mischief, turned up at twilight, but the usual suspects, lemon sharks at Tiger Beach and reef sharks on the low reef at "Fish Tales" were happy to swirl around bait, old hands at shark photography and new initiates into cage-less shark diving.

 

The tiger sharks were a little circumspect at first, but only a little...

 

 

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Bali slideshow: thanks to Shannon Conway and DiveQuest!

I'm chilling in Changi on my way back to England.

I'll eventually process my pictures, but I wanted to thank Shannon Conway and Graham Abbot (diving4images) for a great workshop in Tulamben. I have never seen so many ghost pipefishes...

... or Nauticam housings!

Graham is a hard act to follow, but Megumi Kaneko was up to the task at Mimpi Menjangan.

I think that I'm coming to grips with the D800:


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This is more than can be said for my frustrations at the (by all accounts continuous) Denpasar gridlock that left me in fear of missing my flight this afternoon!

Is John Bantin right? Am I wrong? Is the vacuum check on a Hugyfot housing a good idea?

Are versions available for other housings?

Cold water images from a couple of weeks ago in Plymouth, Devon.

Thanks to Maid Maggie II for delivering the divers to the diving, and Gordon Brown (who knows that he really wants a shiny new D800) for crab-spotting.





Nikon D800, Nauticam NA-D800 housing, Sigma 15mm + Kenko x1.5 T/C, Anthis/Nexus 12-24mm custom dome (Nauticam adaptor), Sola 600 LED light, ISO 1600.


Tim