One of my underwater images has been selected to appear on the homepage of redbubble.com today! You can see the image here.

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A shot of one of the members of the Valley Boys Junkanoo group at the Boxing Day Parade.

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I took this photo while swimming between the David Tucker Wreck and the Royal James Wreck.  These wrecks are located on the southern side of the Island of New Providence in the Bahamas.

While making the swim between the two wrecks, I glanced up just as a school of fish was swimming across the path of the diver above me.

Luckily, I had just enough time to cut off my strobes and get a silhouette shot before the school and the moment was gone.

In post processing, I felt that the image worked better as a warm black and white.

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A quick post of a shot taken yesterday at the Western Esplanade, Nassau, Bahamas

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Crawfish, Nassau, Bahamas

Crawfish season opens tomorrow – Yay! Hopefully, there will be many of these to be found.

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After a long break over the winter months, I am finally getting back into scuba diving.

Last Sunday,  I dove on the De La Salle wreck and at Lighthouse Reef. The De La Salle sits in about 60 feet of water and is broken up. There are schools of snapper on this wreck as well as grunts and the occasional grouper and crawfish. Unfortunately, there are also lionfish so you need to be on the lookout for them and control your buoyancy.

Here is a shot of a crawfish that I found hiding on the De La Salle as well as one of a Yellow Mouth Grouper.

Both of these shots were taken with a Canon G9 in an Ikelite housing with an Ikelite DS-51 strobe.

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A new online community for photographers in the Bahamas has been set up at shoottheislands.com.

The welcome message for this online community (which is set out on the blog page of the site) states as follows:

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A new marine park is being proposed for The Bahamas.  If it comes into existence, it will be located off of the Southwest coast of New Providence – the most populated island in The Bahamas.

Park Area

The proposed park would cover the areas shown orange and pink on the map attached to the Rapid Ecological Assessment carried out by Craig Dahlgren, PhD.  A copy of the Rapid Ecological Assessment can be downloaded from this page on the Bahamas National Trust’s website.

The areas to be included in the proposed park include some of the best dives sites off of New Providence as well as fishing spots used by local fisherman and the docking area used by tankers to off load fuel for the island.

Input Needed

As a part of the process of creating the park, the Bahamas National Trust had the Rapid Ecological Assessment conducted.  The Assessment was carried out in July of this year and the Trust is now seeking input from concerned parties to enable it to incorporate proposed boundaries and regulations for the park when it submits its proposal for the park to the Government of The Bahamas. 

You can do your part to help to preserve the marine resources of New Providence by taking this short survey which will assist the Trust in the creation of this park.

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In the last few months, the number of wreck dives sites in Nassau, Bahamas has increased by two – the Long Island Lady and the Anthony Bell.

Long Island Lady

The Long Island Lady was a 70 foot long fishing boat that was sunk in June of this year by Stuart Cove’s to create a dive site.

As you can see from this shot, the Long Island Lady is lying on its port side.  It rests in about 40 feet of water.

While on its own it is not one of my favorite wrecks, it does make for an interesting dive because of its location.  It is right next to the wall as well as the DC3 airplane wreck.  The DC3 airplane was sunk in 2004 for the filming of “Into the Blue”.  So you can dive on the wall as well as on two wrecks all in one dive!

Anthony Bell

This wreck, in its former life, was a tug boat that worked at Clifton Pier.  After being retired, it was cleaned up and then sunk by Stuart Cove’s in August of this year to create the newest wreck site in New Providence.

It is 90 feet long and sits in about 50 feet of water.  It is sitting upright with a slight list to its port side.

Its upright position makes this wreck easy to penetrate.  At the stern, you can drop down 2 levels into the engine room and swim to the front.  At the top level, you can swim through the wheelhouse.

The great thing about this wreck is that it is still nearly completely free of lionfish.  I saw only one tucked up in the roof of the wheelhouse.

Unfortunately, this probably will soon change and it will be risky to go inside this wreck once the lionfish take up residence.  So you should dive this wreck now while it is still lionfish free.

The wreck of the much smaller Royal James is also nearby as well as a nice reef.  So this is another site where you can dive on two wrecks as well as a reef.

Although both of the new wrecks are worth a visit, my favorite of the two  is definitely the Anthony Bell.

What is your favorite wreck dive in Nassau, Bahamas?

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I am going diving tomorrow – Yay!

But it’s got me thinking – I have to find myself a dive caddy.  You know – someone to:

• find my dive gear – who knows where it could be since the last dive;

• pack it all up for me – regulator and bc at the top of the dive bag to help with quick set up on the boat;

• set up my underwater camera – make sure all  o rings are clean – camera is in housing – strobe connected and firing – you know the usual;

• pack everything in the trunk of my car;

• drive me to the dive boat;

• schlep my gear into the dive shop and sign me in for the dive;

• schlep my gear onto the dive boat – taking  great care with the camera, of course;

• put my camera in the rinse tank on the boat;

• set up my bc and regulator on the tank;

• unpack my dive bag and hand me the wetsuit, weight belt, fins, mask, etc. as needed;

• set up my bc and regulator on a fresh tank for the second dive;

• after the second dive – pack everything back in my dive bag;

• schlep it all back to car and pack it in the trunk;

• drive me home;

• wash all my gear – can’t let that salt build up on the gear;

• once everything has dried – pack it away – this will make the caddy’s job easier when getting ready for the next trip;

If golfers can have caddies, why can’t divers?

If you would like to apply for this position, please let me know.  Of course, your pay will be the privilege of observing a great diver in action (when I find him on the boat I will point him out to you).

Got to go now.  I have to contact my host server to warn them about the flood of traffic that will be created by all of the applications flooding in!

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