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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The spider crab is Ireland’s largest crab and can be found pretty much everywhere. Here on the wreck of the SS Manchester Merchant, this guy was happy to pose for me amid the twisted metal, the starfish, the blennies, and the pollock. It all ended when I got a little too close, and he shuffled […]
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This lobster, hiding in the debris of the SS Manchester Merchant, was not coming out to play, no matter how long I lay there and waited. The space was too confined to get any closer with the strobes attached to my camera, so I decided to fold them back, sacrificing light for access. As I […]
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We were deep, very deep, perhaps 35 metres down or more. A brooding grey sky above meant that very little light had made its way to us here. Colour had been left behind, languishing in the surface shallows. To say there was no colour at all wouldn’t be quite true. All around us was a […]
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As I break the surface at the end of another amazing dive beneath the waters of Bray Head I’m comforted by the sight of the approaching boat with a competent coxswain at the helm. Getting back into the boat is a real team effort. The first diver removes their gear piece by piece, handing each […]
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