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Conch eyes, Morritos Reef,
Sea of Cortez
Except for this picture, this was a thouroughly
unsatisfying dive. When the divemaster handed me my camera, the strobes and
focus light fell off. I gathered up the pieces while clinging to a rope and
fighting a 3 or 4 knot current. I caught up with Betty at about 15 feet.
Betty held the camera while I clung like a limpet to the rope and
re-assembled it. Then the two of us spent ten minutes and
a whole lot of air pulling ourselves down the rope to the bottom at 65 feet.
Vis was maybe 40. Green morays every few feet. and precious little else. We
were cowering from the current in the lee of a big boulder when Betty
spotted this conch flipped over on its back (There were some divers on this
boat who were, shall we say, ecologically carefree. Or maybe I'm being
small-minded and it was just the
current.). I took the picture, and Betty flipped the conch back the right
way, and then we started for the surface. Dive time: 30 minutes. Bottom time:
five minutes.
Nikon D100,
105mm f/2.8 AF Auto Micro Nikkor,
Subal D-10
Housing, 2 Sea and Sea 90 strobes, f/45,
ISO 200. . |