Uh oh, I've been underwater again. VERY image heavy!
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Well, I’ve just returned from a week in the Red Sea, so I thought I’d try and clog up the internet with some more pictures!
I went on a boat called Typhoon with a couple of friends, Colon & Sally. We flew into Charm el Shiite and did a “Wrecks & Reefs” trip down to Sha’ab Abu Nuhas, Gubal Island and then back up to Ras Mohammed and the Straits of Tiran. I won’t bore you with the intricate details of the trip, but here are a few shots I took.
The piccies were taken in RAW/Basic format on a Nikon D70 in a Sea & Sea DX D70 housing plus strobes. The close-up photos were taken with a Nikon 60mm macro lens, and nearly all the wide angle shots with a Nikon 12-24mm. A couple or three were taken with a Nikon 18-70mm lens. The above water shots were taken with a little Sony point & squirt. I’ve done some mild tweakery in Photoshop on the basic images, not the RAW images, so quality is not perfect, but it does mean they shouldn’t take TOO long to load!
Enjoy!
Whirlwind (she’s the sister ship of Typhoon, so almost identical. I never got the opportunity to get in the RIB and take some pictures of Typhoon.)
The wreck of some old tub on Jackson Reef in the Straits of Tiran.
4 happy chappies (or chappesses) sitting on the mooring line
Colon & Sally descending the mooring line
Goatfish in the Dunraven
BSA motorcycle on the Thistelgorm
Trucks on the Thistlegorm
Locomotive water tender on the Thistlegorm
Diver, seafan and propeller of the Kingston
Bow of the Carnatic
Divers in the Carnatic
Stern of the Carnatic (or could be the Chrisola K, I really can’t remember!)
Bow of the Giannis D (or could be the Chrisola K, I really can’t remember!)
Stern section of the Giannis D
Bridge superstructure of the Giannis D
Wreck of the Giannis D
Colon and school of glassfish in the engine room of the Giannis D
Soft corals and fusiliers on the Dunraven
Bogs on the Yolanda at Ras Mohammed
A scalloped hammerhead shark at Jackson Reef. Sorry, it’s the best I could do. I was at 150ft, Colon was at 180ft, they were unobliging and too far away from me to get a decent shot. Just thought I’d stick it in to show that a couple of miles from all the tourist peasants in Sharm there are still a few big fish about.
Soft coral detail
Moray eel
Goby in its burrow
Blue spotted stingray
Enema fish
Lionfish on the Thistelgorm
Some little fishywishy on a fan coral
Eyes of a crocodilefish
Stonefish
Octopus
Sleeping parrotfish
Masked butterflyfish
A chromodoris nudibranch, or as the dive guides called it, a pyjama wart slug
2 mating Risbecia nudibranchs
Bommie covered in soft corals, Ras Ghazlani
And another
And another
Fire coral and anthias
Whip coral
Soft corals and anthias
Divers and sot corals
Colon and soft corals
Colon and sea fan
Colon and sea fan
Anthias at the top of the reef
I went on a boat called Typhoon with a couple of friends, Colon & Sally. We flew into Charm el Shiite and did a “Wrecks & Reefs” trip down to Sha’ab Abu Nuhas, Gubal Island and then back up to Ras Mohammed and the Straits of Tiran. I won’t bore you with the intricate details of the trip, but here are a few shots I took.
The piccies were taken in RAW/Basic format on a Nikon D70 in a Sea & Sea DX D70 housing plus strobes. The close-up photos were taken with a Nikon 60mm macro lens, and nearly all the wide angle shots with a Nikon 12-24mm. A couple or three were taken with a Nikon 18-70mm lens. The above water shots were taken with a little Sony point & squirt. I’ve done some mild tweakery in Photoshop on the basic images, not the RAW images, so quality is not perfect, but it does mean they shouldn’t take TOO long to load!
Enjoy!
Whirlwind (she’s the sister ship of Typhoon, so almost identical. I never got the opportunity to get in the RIB and take some pictures of Typhoon.)
The wreck of some old tub on Jackson Reef in the Straits of Tiran.
4 happy chappies (or chappesses) sitting on the mooring line
Colon & Sally descending the mooring line
Goatfish in the Dunraven
BSA motorcycle on the Thistelgorm
Trucks on the Thistlegorm
Locomotive water tender on the Thistlegorm
Diver, seafan and propeller of the Kingston
Bow of the Carnatic
Divers in the Carnatic
Stern of the Carnatic (or could be the Chrisola K, I really can’t remember!)
Bow of the Giannis D (or could be the Chrisola K, I really can’t remember!)
Stern section of the Giannis D
Bridge superstructure of the Giannis D
Wreck of the Giannis D
Colon and school of glassfish in the engine room of the Giannis D
Soft corals and fusiliers on the Dunraven
Bogs on the Yolanda at Ras Mohammed
A scalloped hammerhead shark at Jackson Reef. Sorry, it’s the best I could do. I was at 150ft, Colon was at 180ft, they were unobliging and too far away from me to get a decent shot. Just thought I’d stick it in to show that a couple of miles from all the tourist peasants in Sharm there are still a few big fish about.
Soft coral detail
Moray eel
Goby in its burrow
Blue spotted stingray
Enema fish
Lionfish on the Thistelgorm
Some little fishywishy on a fan coral
Eyes of a crocodilefish
Stonefish
Octopus
Sleeping parrotfish
Masked butterflyfish
A chromodoris nudibranch, or as the dive guides called it, a pyjama wart slug
2 mating Risbecia nudibranchs
Bommie covered in soft corals, Ras Ghazlani
And another
And another
Fire coral and anthias
Whip coral
Soft corals and anthias
Divers and sot corals
Colon and soft corals
Colon and sea fan
Colon and sea fan
Anthias at the top of the reef
Edited by Fezant Pluckah on Monday 24th August 11:15
Simpo Two said:
Fezant Pluckah said:
The piccies were taken... on a Nikon D70 in a Sea & Sea DX D70 housing plus strobes. The close-up photos were taken with a Nikon 60mm macro lens
My old kit is indeed having a great holiday with its new owner!
ETA there was one of your pubes on the mirror.
But I hoovered it off. *Fletch* said:
Simply amazing.
How did you change lenses safely?!
Errr, you don't. You choose a lens and stick it on the camera in the housing and are stuck with it for the dive. How did you change lenses safely?!
Edited by Fezant Pluckah on Monday 24th August 10:18
Amazing pics. Would love to dive like that!Great stuff. I did a similar trip the year before last, and hope to get back there later this year.
It's also encouraged by a lot of instructors, just to stop people flapping their arms about to (attempt to) control their position in the water - everything should be done by your legs and the fins.
NDA said:
I don't know anything about diving (not sure I'd like to do it), but why do the divers hold their hands together in front of them?
Personal preference as said, but as most people use dive computers (the blue wrist-mounted thing on the diver in most shots) which gives you depth, no-deco time, etc by keeping your arms in a relaxed position forward lets you check the computer just by flicking your eyes down.It's also encouraged by a lot of instructors, just to stop people flapping their arms about to (attempt to) control their position in the water - everything should be done by your legs and the fins.
What an amazing set of pictures. Well done. I love looking at pictures of things underwater but, as I'm afraid of the sea, I don't think I'll ever be trying it myself.
Favs for me are the pink coral (so delicate looking), moray eel (how did you get so close? I thought they were quite vicious things?), stingray (lovely colours), lionfish (so majestic) and the parrotfish.
Favs for me are the pink coral (so delicate looking), moray eel (how did you get so close? I thought they were quite vicious things?), stingray (lovely colours), lionfish (so majestic) and the parrotfish.
CarMac said:
moray eel (how did you get so close?
Well, actually, they don't in general live up to their reputation! You can get surprisingly close to them, and they'll then back into their hole if they feel you are too close. Also, it was taken with a macro lens, and it was quite a big moray, so I wasn't THAT close 
Fantastic Photos! I went in july, i did the diving but i never got to see anything like this...
Will have to go again i suppose.
For those interested in the wrecks, the one with the military trucks was bombed zee Germans and the Wreck on the reef was supposedly a drunk Russian captain running aground. Not sure how true that is but its quite amusing anyhow.
Will have to go again i suppose.
For those interested in the wrecks, the one with the military trucks was bombed zee Germans and the Wreck on the reef was supposedly a drunk Russian captain running aground. Not sure how true that is but its quite amusing anyhow.
sjg said:
Great stuff. I did a similar trip the year before last, and hope to get back there later this year.
It's also encouraged by a lot of instructors, just to stop people flapping their arms about to (attempt to) control their position in the water - everything should be done by your legs and the fins.
Thanks for the explanation - makes sense.NDA said:
I don't know anything about diving (not sure I'd like to do it), but why do the divers hold their hands together in front of them?
Personal preference as said, but as most people use dive computers (the blue wrist-mounted thing on the diver in most shots) which gives you depth, no-deco time, etc by keeping your arms in a relaxed position forward lets you check the computer just by flicking your eyes down.It's also encouraged by a lot of instructors, just to stop people flapping their arms about to (attempt to) control their position in the water - everything should be done by your legs and the fins.
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