Another image from Saturday’s dive with the old guard. Guy cruising effortlessly in the shadow of the Glenelg Dredge, Craig in cold pursuit while Karl hangs in mid water the way he does best overseeing all. Legends all of them.
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The Longest Five Minutes
It is good practice as a diver to perform a safety stop at the end of every dive even if your calculations or your computer tell you it is safe to ascend. Generally I’ll spend five minutes at five meters after a twenty meter dive but sometimes it seems that that five minutes takes longer […]
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Southern Bluespot Flathead
Yesterday I took a step back in time to dive with a bunch of mates I have not dived with for more than decade. I’ll write more about my experience in another post but for now here is one of the critters we discovered lazing on the deck of the barge (the wreck of the […]
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Alien Seed
These enigmatic and almost unnerving sponges around Edithburgh Jetty seem to me like some ancient sentinel lifeform left to observe the passage of evolution. When I think of them in that way it no longer seems strange that these are animals, not plants, and that it is more than likely that this sentinel began its […]
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Jasus novaehollandiae
There was a time long, long ago when I dived here armed with sturdy gloves and a catch-bag. What would ensue was a cat and mouse game of stealthy ambush; the hunter; the prey. Since the day I first took a camera underwater my catch-bag has stayed dry and now seeing crayfish brings me a […]
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