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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This image has been 122 years in the making, 113 of those quietly resting on the sea floor off the South Australian York Peninsula. Forty souls lost their lives that fateful night back in 1909, more than two thirds of her crew. The SS Clan Ranald is one of my all time favourite South Australian […]
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Somewhere above that lifeline leads to a tiny little boat waiting in a vast ocean for us to return to light, to air and eventually to dry land again. To divers this is a familiar experience. Follow the rope down, experience an ever so brief encounter with life on a wreck, a reef or just […]
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Here, several kilometres off the coast of the Fleurieu Peninsula lies the wreck of the ex-HMAS Hobart. It is a treasured gift to divers local and from elsewhere alike. She’s not that old but has made this spot hers as if she had always been here. The Hobart “is big, really big. You just won’t […]
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I’d often seen snapper before on the wreck of the ex-HMAS Hobart but usually small ruggers and often large schools of them. The occasional large snapper would cruise past from time to time but never really big and always very flighty. On this dive however we discovered several large, metre plus, fish sheltering inside the […]
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