This is the most breathtaking shot of a Great White Shark I’ve ever seen.
Great White (wow!)
It is a submission to the National Geographic Photo Contest: “CONFRONTING: Cage divers confront a great white shark on the Isla de Guadalupe. (Photo and caption by David Litchfield/Nature/National Geographic Photo Contest)”. More submissions here.
With wreck diving being a fasctinating facet for any diver, having a wreck to explore makes any dive region more attractive.
While it takes a while for marine life to take over a wreck, the long-term rewards are major. Countless purposely-sunk wrecks dot the divespots of the world and this latest addition is no slouch, given that it is a large warship.
USS Kittiwake was sunk off the waters of the Cayman Islands to create an artificial reef.
Happened in Hawaii. With the videocam turned on, some footage was shot, however the Manta will need to attend cinematography courses to become more proficient.
Site of numerous atomic-bomb tests, the Bikini Atoll has been “cleaned up” and opened as a unique wreck-dive site including the retired aircraft carrier USS Saratoga used as a A-bomb test candidate resting at the bottom, along with WWII planes.
With local produce and seafood still being contaminated and dive-boats being required to be self-contained – including fuel – I assume that the time at which any divers in quantity will be able and willing to reach this site is still decades away. Unfortunately.
The Baker test which sunk the ships:
The Blue Hole of Dahab, Sinai, Egypt has reached legendary status.
Not least of which a large cavernous tunnel at 50m+ leading into the open sea, called the Arch. The blue light entering through the arch gives the place an otherworldly feel. So much so and coupled with the sometimes lax requirements of the local dive operators that divers neither qualified nor outfitted with the appropriate equipment attempt the dive, with often fatal results.
You’ll need to have Nitrox, advanced Nitrox, extended range and decompression technique certifications – or Trimix – if you’re “bent” to do the Blue Hole.
I love Barracuda, both the solitary giant Barracuda resting just below the water, jaws agape, razor-sharp teeth bulging out, and also the huge schools of juveniles circling endlessly as a giant doughnut.
I’ve brought myself to ignore my instinctive fear to calm down, and know that this fish isn’t going to harm me. Just don’t get too close, supposedly don’t wear any shiny stuff nor thrash about to scare it away.
Sometimes, Barracuda can get confused, as when a guided tour was let into the water while the guides were feeding the fish. A barracuda bit a girl’s hand which was next to a floating bagel and the fish – probably mistakenly. Before the fish noticed the error, it’s sharp teeth had already caused significant damage.
I fault the guides for throwing fodder into the bathing tourists and no one else, also not the barracuda.