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Lions mane Jellyfish does a graceful dance

Spotted this guy during the safety stop after our dive on the Maerl beds at Cushendall. Not the best camera work you will have ever seen but if you watch until closer to the end it gets better

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Spiny Spider Crab

This fellow was seen in the sea grass beds at Waterfoot Bay in Co Antrim during a seasearch survey dive, and apparently he is the most easterly ever recorded in our waters.

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Maybe the Laurentic

Anenome City

Following a very pleasant dive through a hard coral garden, we ended the dive and did our safety stop at this Anenome City were I took the opportuntiy to capture some video of the residents. I particularly like their posturing as they defend their homestead, understandable and very reminiscint of dare I say of the film “Finding Nemo”

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Tags: scuba diving, underwater, clown fish, anenome, red sea

Oceanic Whitetip Shark

A young Oceanic White-tip shark pays us a visit on our safety stop under the boat at Daedalus Reef in the Red Sea during our liveaboard safari on the Blue Peral at the end of November 2008

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Hammerheads at Daedalus

A school of hammerheads vsited us on a dive at Daedalus Reef in the Red Sea on 29th November 2008

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oceanic whitetip shark

oceanicwhitetipshark

Originally uploaded by waveneyavenue

One of several we saw on our recent liveaboard safari to the red sea. We charterdt eh “Blue pearl” and spent a week touring the reefs in the South of the Red Sea. Marine Conservation Parks, Including Elphinstone, Daedalus, Rocky Island and Zabergad as well as Fury Shoals and some smaller reefs on the way back north to Marsa Alam. This OCeanic was seen during our safety stop at Daedalus.

Ling at St Johns Point

First time I’ve seen one swimming freely or at least first time when I’ve had my camera handy! I mistook this for a conger oops. Thanks for putting me right Richard!

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Lochgarry bow swim through

William Mannell, October 2007

The start of our dive on this downed trawler. Another great wreck found off Glengad Head Culdaff Bay, Co.Donegall this fishing trawler served as an excort vessel in WWI and was converted into a minesweeper for WWII. She was named after a crewman who served onboard the Victory with Lord Nelson at Trafalgar. Ummm, that sounds familiar I think I wrote it on a video i took last year of this wreck, oh well. Anyway , great dive, great conditions, a wee bit of a run but nothing we couldn’t handle, and as a bonus I worked out how to manually adjust my white balance on the camera whilst at 27metres so i am expected some interesting results.

Seasearch – marine life identification course

Just wondered if any of your visitors might be interested in our project – Seasearch. It’s a national UK project which trains volunteer divers to record marine life and habitats. You don’t need any experience to take part as all training is provided. We are running a marine life identification course in Portrush on the 1/2nd September. For more info people can contact me on claire.goodwin@gmail.com.

Claire asked me to advertise this as she has difficulty reaching independent divers.

Dogfish at the Skerries

Haven’t dived this site in nearly a year but it was nice to be back and we were rewarded with plenty to see, including 3 other dogfish and a large conger eel, that Neil unsucessfully tried to coax out for the camera, and good conditions, no current as it was slack water and pretty good vis, I’d say about 13-15 metres.

Conger on William Mannell wreck

This was the second one we saw and he came within about 35 cm’s of my face before I actually saw him. He definitely made me flinch. Dive was fantastic, perfect conditions, no current, great viz, enjoyed by one and all, even James who apparently experienced narcosis for the first time ever and from the sounds of it will be taking another fix sometime soon!

SSCastleEden

A jaunt around the SS Castleeden. I like to post something every once in a while and unfortunately owing to other trips and weather and not having my camera there has been a lull in video and photos. So to try and redress the balance somewhat here is a wee dive from last summer. Enjoy!