Twenty meters down colours are not what you’d think they might be. Reds are the first to leave followed by orange, then yellow and finally green. The world down here amid the broken bones of the Clan Ranald wreck is blue and grey and shadow. A fantastic monochrome world of detail, texture and landscape. Shine […]
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Window on the Aldinga Dropoff
Just an hour’s drive south of Adelaide is a dive location which evokes adventure, mystery, wonder, danger and awe! Arguably the location of Australia’s most famous shark attack survived by Rodney Fox back in 1963 and the subsequent fatality of Jonathon Lee in 1991. I have dived here many times and just a little anxious […]
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At a glance you could be excused for thinking this shot was taken on some exotic tropical reef. Certainly gorgonian corals often feature in deep tropical reef locations but they are just as at home here in our South Australian cold to temperate waters as in the tropics. I first found gorgonian corals many years […]
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If I talk about coral gardens there are three ways the conversation might go. The first, that corals are in the ocean and so you must find them everywhere. The second, that corals are in the tropical oceans and so you only get to see them in exotic locations. The third comes from an understanding […]
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