Midnight at the lost and found

Another sunken treasure decides to reveal itself to world again after nearly 76 years in hiding. There's so much more of the ocean to explore, preserve and conserve for future generations.

Link: HERE

"The USS Lexington, a US aircraft carrier lost during the 1942 Battle of the Coral Sea, has been discovered by a team of civilian researchers off the north-east coast of Australia.
The Lexington was discovered on Sunday, March 4, by Vulcan Inc., a company chaired by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. A search team aboard the Research Vessel (R/V) Petrel found the ship—one of the United States’ first aircraft carriers—about 500 miles (800 km) from the Australian east coast, and at a depth of two miles (3 km). The ship went down in May 1942 after a four-day battle against three Japanese aircraft carriers." 

 

"A spokesperson for Vulcan said it had taken about six months of planning to locate the ship, and that it was a high priority target for the company. Last year, the company found the USS Indianapolis, which sunk in July 1945."

The quiet things that no one ever knows

Things sensible, enlightened people already knew........

Link: HERE

"Around 200 people in the U.S. die every year from run-ins with animals, according to a new study, which found that over one million emergency room visits and approximately $2 billion in healthcare spending are attributable annually to problematic animal encounters.
While bear or shark attacks might spring to mind, the majority of the deaths were either from venomous attacks by insects, encounters with dogs, or farm incidents."

 
“The risk of death due to domesticated animals such as farm animals and dogs far outweigh those due to any wild animals,” lead author Jared A. Forrester, with Stanford University’s Department of Surgery, told Earther. “The rates of death due to wild animals remained exceedingly low.”

Lazy Sunday Afternoon

Lazy sunday afternoon, I've got no mind to worry, close my eyes and drift away.

Pottering in the back garden, some R&R and messing around with the camera. New strobes delivered maybe soon??

Welcome to the machine

Another sporadic post. Yes, we did dive today although I didn't have my camera with me. Due to the demand for the Inon z330, there's a bit of a shortage of them. Hopefully by the end of the month, maybe. I miss my camera in the water.

I did borrow a gopro to twat around with so Spot and Brutus were out hogging the limelight along with some feeding turtles, barracudas, angelfish and a big swarming shoal of tangs.

Hopefully normal service will be resumed soon. In the meantime, video below.......

A hazy shade of winter.

2018 has arrived and I have yet to get in the water. Weather, work, injury, illness, house falling apart, all the usual run of the mill day to day stuff that we have to put up with. And I'm still waiting on my new strobes which, I'm really hoping won't be too much longer before they get here (fingers crossed).

At the very least I can upload a little snippet of video from the very last dive of 2017 with Miss Leslie and a submarine. Resolution for 2018, get more diving in. Enjoy.

Double Vision

A little delay in the post update, I know. Been a busy time at work and I still have a few more posts on the back burner to come.

 With an appearance in Sport Divers Worlds Best Diving special edition last month, we have a nice little bonus of popping up in the January edition of Scuba Diving magazine promoting the Cayman Islands again.

I'll keep taking the photos if they keep sending me the money and Jill keeps modelling for me......

It's a livin thing

We had a break on the weather on Sunday morning  with flat seas after a night of turmoil and good viz. There was eve a rainbow over the water inviting us in. All macro this morning, and it was fun just to play around for a change without any requests, deadlines or assignments to worry about, just dive and shoot.

Spot was with us instantly hoping for some attention as usual (high maintenance these snappers....) and we had a good selection of blennies and gobies hiding among the hard corals in the shallows.

No sightings of big stuff while we were in but then again, we weren't really looking for any so that elusive hammerhead that's been spotted a few times recently will just have to wait for another day.

Some nice banded jawfish were more than happy to pose for a while but no eggs just yet though.

Best part of the dive was spending a good portion of it just hanging out with a leopard flatworm, which I don't see enough of over here. It was running around the place in one of the sand chutes and made for a great time, think it was about 30-25 minutes just watching and taking pictures. Well worth getting in the water for. It's not always about the big things (so women keep telling me......).

And we capped it of with a nice little flamingo tongue cowrie climbing up a sea fan with a little difficulty but it made it up there eventually. You can do anything when you put your mind to it.

Getting out at the end of the dive proved a real who's who as everyone seemed to be turning up out of nowhere. Captain Tilley was there with his free diving mob, Captain James was borrowing the pool and Fulvio was herding his students into the car park. Just as well we were getting out as everyone was getting in........