The not St. Kilda tour..

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As some of you know I do a bit of diving.... While posting some pictures on another site i thought you guys might like to see.

One of this years big trips was a live abourd dive boat going fron the isle of Skye to St. Kilda, a group of rocks 50 miles past the outer hebrides.

Kilda is a UK divers dream. Massice underground caves, fissures and scenery and covered in blue water! The islands are in the middle of the gulf stream and this brings blue water to the otherwise green tinted UK coast.

Due to the howling winds our we never made it past Harris :(

On the plus side it allowed us to dive some sites not listed in any books or websites, expertly picked of the charts by Bob on the Halton.


Visability was nearing the red sea!
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But there was the odd nudibranch or 2, some like the 4th picture were only about 5mm long
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A few others

Sea Hare
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King scallop (Yum!)
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Lightbulb squirts
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jewel anemone
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Sea Scorpion
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Can't remember the name. Stone mason or something...
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Squat lobster
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Tube worm. Very hard to get one of theese open. The water movement makes them shut way before you get near!
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Same with these barnacles, must have taken 25 shots and this was the best :(
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Sea lemon.
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Velvet swimming crab.
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Dahlia anemone
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Arty shot of kelp with an urchin on.
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Amazing visibility in those pics. :) Btw what is that "thing" top centre of the first pic?

Diving is something I'd like to get into, just casually in a swimming pool etc. Think my diabetes would make it harder to get into and I don't think my local leisure centre offer it. :(

Would have to go to Bletchley or perhaps even further afield.
 
MarcLister said:
Amazing visibility in those pics. :) Btw what is that "thing" top centre of the first pic?
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Thats Claire the girlfriend! :eek:



:p


The think on the surface is a delayed surface marker buoy (DSMB)

is a marker you can set off from under water so the boat can locate you in rough seas or current.

Claires with her name on so the boat can follow the right person.
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I wouldn't call St Kilda a 'group of rocks' but it certainly is a beautiful place to go, I was fortunate enoguh to be able to land there back in 1992, not long before they made the 'Puff Inn' MOD only... It is one place, that one day, I would love to go back to.
 
^Ewww!

It's stuff like that, that stops me going in the ocean. Been scared ever since I got owned by a jelly fish :(
 
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One of the 3 taken of me!

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the red glow is because the photo was taken with manual white balance to make up for the lost reds etc.. The touch adds its own red making it a but strange :)
 
The_blue said:
Thats Claire the girlfriend! :eek:



:p
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Haha. Good reply. :D


The_blue said:
The think on the surface is a delayed surface marker buoy (DSMB)

is a marker you can set off from under water so the boat can locate you in rough seas or current.
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Ah. Thought it was something underwater and the scale wasn't right for it to be a boat. :)

The_blue said:
Claires with her name on so the boat can follow the right person.
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She can't navigate then? ;)
 
Got a friend who is a comercial diver, on one of his last jobs he picked up the dive photos from the kursk, got them on photobucket if you lot are interested.

KaHn
 
The_blue said:
Not in a fast current :)

I've done dives where I've covered 2 miles+ underwater.

If there happens to be more than on boat at a site i want to make sure mine knows where i am. :)
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Hehe yeah I can understand. Think we've had one too many Hollywood-esque movies about people being abandoned in the water. :p

KaHn said:
Got a friend who is a comercial diver, on one of his last jobs he picked up the dive photos from the kursk, got them on photobucket if you lot are interested.

KaHn
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I take it you mean the Kursk as in the Russian Navy sub that kind of sank a bit? Would love to see them yes. :)
 
MarcLister said:
I take it you mean the Kursk as in the Russian Navy sub that kind of sank a bit? Would love to see them yes. :)
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The very same...............

but on checking photobucket they have gone. I will get kingbuzz1 to send them to me again as I think I have lost them in the last format.

KaHn
 
Nice shots

I can't wait to get my cert and do a few UK dives, which cert do you have?

Whats your kit?
 
Great photos, I can't get over that viz in the UK - I'm used to diving in pea soup, well when I lived in the UK.

Can I ask what your camera setup is, because you seem to have your white balance perfectly. Do you manaual white balance whilst under, or do you sort it out later in photoshop?
 
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