Dive 056

Date	Jan 10, 2002-10:48 AM
Location:	Berlin Wall, Flinders Reef - Coral Sea, Australia
Dive Shop	Mike Ball
Purpose	Recreation - search for clown fish
Buddy	Mark Robinson
Exposure Suit	3mm
Other Equipment	Video - wide angle lens
Weight	12
Viz	170
Max Depth	49
Start Air	3000
End Air	800
EAN	0
Minutes Under	46
Surface Interval	136
Remarks

Both Mark and I were in search of the elusive clown fish. We had seen some on the previous dive, but neither of us were happy with our pictures and video. The good thing was we knew where a group was living relative to where the boat was last dive. The bad thing was the boat had drifted to a new postion, and we were clueless to what the difference was.

I did a giant stride entry from the middle of the boat. This is about six feet above the water. It was ok, but nothing special.

We imediately began our search on the first coral formation we dropped onto. Nothing.

The hunt was on. Mark and I began to fan out and search the coral formations for some soft coral and clown fish. It took a while to find, but eventually I found some. While we were looking we both found some different subjects to shoot. I tried to get some nice video of the colorful fish swimming in and out of the beutiful coral.

There was a small patch of soft coral on one of the formations. I set up my shot and took some footage while I waited for Mark to finish what he was doing. I then signaled him to come to me and showed him the clown fish. He took a few pictures, then swam off to give me a decent view for more filming. While he was taking his pictures I went down to the rubbish between coral formations and shot some video of the cucumbers that were hanging out down there. It seems everywhere you look there is at least a little bit of life, and most places have quit an abbundance of life.

This is a good dive trip.

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