Dive 062
| Date | Jan 11, 2002-07:25 PM |
| Location: | Lonely Eel, Findlers Reef - Coral Sea, Australia |
| Dive Shop | Mike Ball |
| Purpose | Recreation - night dive |
| Buddy | Mark Robinson |
| Exposure Suit | 3mm |
| Other Equipment | video - no lens |
| Weight | 12 |
| Viz | 0 |
| Max Depth | 62 |
| Start Air | 2910 |
| End Air | 610 |
| EAN | 21 |
| Minutes Under | 46 |
| Surface Interval | 192 |
| Remarks |
Started this night dive with a taxi service to the site. The boat was floating a good deal down current of the site, so the staff suggested we let them suttle us over to the main coral head. Of course we let them.
I tried to take video of small stuff (that is what you are supposed to do at night I think). Some of the highlights were anemone with clown fish (big suprise) and a cotton mouth eel. The anemone was interesting because it was curled up a little, showing the bright purple underside of the plant. The clown fish were kept company by some other type of fish which was black with white dots. I think these are juvinile fish. The eel was pretty interesting. It was more active than eels usually are (in my limited opinion).
I tried to get some footage of the shrimp that were out. As I swam along a wall, shinning my light I could see little glitters just sitting there. These were the eyes of the shrimp relecting the light of my camera. Whenever I tried to get close enough to get some footage, the shrimp would wait for me to get set up, then right when I wanted to start rolling, the shrimp would run away, probably snickering at me as they ran. Little bastards.
While we were doing the safety stop we turned our lights and played with the photo-illumenecence. It was really neat waving my hands and seeing sparks dance in the water.
The dive ended with us surfacing a decent way from the Spoilsport. We gave the ok sign and a crew member came and picked us up. I definately like this ship and crew.
One thing I did not like about the dive was the way the lights are connected to my camera housing. The lights don't really stay where I want them to. As I swim, they move based on the current (my swimming will make enough current). This was real annoying, because I ended up having the lights facing the same direction (one correctly pointing in front of the camera, the other pointing off to the side of the camera). During the day this hasn't bothered me, but I don't really use the lights during the day. I mainly keep them pointed towards the center of the housing, only unfolding them when I want to use them. At night I use these lights as my main light source, so not having them in a fixed position is really annoying. Another problem I have with this is my lights are extreamly bright and I imagine it is annoying to other divers when I shine my lights at them. Not having them exactly where I want them is bad.
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