A playful greeting from a grey seal welcomed us as we arrived at our Little Skellig dive site, an experience that stood in sharp contrast to the grim events of 1809, when the full-rigged ship Lady Nelson was wrecked here. Of her crew, only two survived while twenty-five souls were lost. During our dive we […]
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As I headed upstream from Lover’s Leap toward the River Blackwater Beach, I noticed a change. There were fewer lifeless fish on the riverbed now, and the first signs of the living, dying, and desperate. I saw trout with clouded eyes, their bodies veiled in a milky-grey film. Some floated upside down near the surface, […]
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Today, I slipped into the waters of the River Blackwater beneath Lover’s Leap, downstream from Mallow, hoping to capture some of the local river life. What I saw instead distressed me. It made me angry. It made me sad. In less than 100 metres of river, I counted more than a hundred dead or dying […]
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Many divers that are not into photography simply swim continuously through their environment expecting that this will give them then best chance to see everything there is to see. For things that do not swim away this makes perfect sense. If on the other hand you really want to see fish behaviour, the opposite is […]
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It’s wonderful to be surrounded by an abundance of fish life, all going about their business, oblivious to our diving intrusion. It’s quite something else when the wildlife wants to play. I first noticed the blennies as I nestled down amid the wreckage, one, then two, then three, then four, as the blennies came out […]
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