Dive Pics - Updated
 

I just got back from my trip to Provo today and thought I would share some pics I took while diving.

Providenciales, nicknamed "Provo", is an island in the Turks and Caicos Islands.

I took all these pics with a Canon SD550 with a Canon WP-DC80 underwater housing.

This was the first time using the camera so I was/am learning. Here are a few, I'm still going through the rest and will post more later.



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Gorgeous pics Bill! Thanks for sharing...what an excellent way to spend your birthday!!!! WOW

I'd say you've got the hang of that camera, those pics are great. Can't wait to see the rest of them. Nice way to spend your birthday eh?:biggrin:

Fantastic photos, seems like you had a very nice dive, with lots to see!

Here is a blurry one but I liked this fish, I did 10 dives and only saw one of these.


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MAN ALIVE I just love the Carribbean for the gorgonian infested reefs. Awesome, just awesome. :)

Question, what was the water temperature like?

My dive computer just takes an average and it was 79, on all the dives. I could feel cool and warm spots on some dives that was quite extreme, I would guess a five or six degree swing possibly more. Just about everyone would comment on that after the dive and the dive instructors said it was the warmer shallower water coming back out to the deeper cooler water with the falling tide. I had not experienced anything like that on my other warm water dives so it took me by surprise.

The first thing I thought of was my tank.

What a fabulous trip!!!!!!

Thank you for sharing your trip with us....delightful pics!

Sarina

Thanks everyone, it was a lot of fun taking them, here are some more.

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Great pictures! Thanks for posting them. I can hardly wait until I do my first open water dive in August!

Love the turtle. How big would you estimate him to be?

I'm getting sooooooo jealous. Great pics Bill. I want to move somewhere warm too.......

The one in the first pic was about 20" long or so and the second maybe 30".

Thanks guys, here are some more. The first one was coming straight at me and was just veering away when I took the pic. The others are a bit blurry...they were circling us for about 20 min or so and take turns swimming through us checking us out I guess. Kind of cool...I have seen sharks before diving but they didn't like us getting close and would keep their distance or take off.



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Great Pictures .

Too Close Too close!!!!!!!

Yeah the last one came real close, I was tempted to touch it but I thought that might not be the smartest thing to do, kind of like starting a reeftank. :neutral: But hey, I never claimed to be that smart. :mrgreen: All deadly seriousness aside it was only about 3 1/2 to 4' long, it didn't concern me as much as the first one that was coming right at me.

Awesome pictures!!! Thanks for sharing.

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Beautiful pictures! Keep them coming please!

Can I get a frag......

Where you using an underwater flash?

I did on that last one, I lust left the flash on auto. I have another one I'll dig up of a lobster, flash went off since it was hiding in a den.

Wow!!

I hope you dont mind Bill, but I am using the one shot of the gorg on this page as a wallpaper. Stunning photos!! :biggrin:

these are WICKED. did you bring any frags home :biggrin:

Amazing pictures! I get freaked out thinking about diving. The movie with the 2 people who get left behind, has made me a chicken.

Not at all.

No...I must say the thought did cross my mind and then right after I pictured myself in a Caribbean jail. :mrgreen:

I believe the movie is Open Water....just think of the shark pic's I could get. :wink:

This dive operator is one of the best I have dove with, they make a diagram of every dive site and give a detailed briefing. Here is a quick shot of the briefing and some pics of the dive.

Here are two write ups of the dive site that I plagiarized from this website
http://www.dunbankin.com/provo2003/



Thunderdome - "Thunderdome . Just 100m inshore from Chimney (we did both sites in one dive), Thunderdome is the site of the underwater tasks that the contestants had to carry out in a 1980's French "Survivor"-style game show. Like the Thunderdome in the Mad Max movie, it was a hemispherical iron grillwork dome, sitting on a sand floor at 15m, and with a single narrow entrance/exit at the top, about 8m deep. Contestants had to free-dive down and search for "pearls" hidden in the dome, begging lungfuls of air from scantily-clad "mermaids" with scuba tanks. Back on shore at the "Tiki huts" where they lived, they could exchange the pearls for food and water. Unfortunately the show was canned after two contestants suffered lung damage - they hadn't been trained to breathe out when surfacing from the dome. We saw a friendly nurse shark swimming around the Thunderdome, keeping an eye on us."


The Chimney - Not a real chimney but a cut out in the wall that looks like a chimney, I guess. Here is the quote, "Chimney. Flat reef-top at about 12m, leading to abrupt vertical wall going down to 5,000ft. Partially enclosed vertical chimney to swim down through from the reef top, emerging at about 27m. Sensational corals and sponges on the wall - tubes, barrels, elephant ear, fans etc. Sharks passing by off the wall below us, turtles on the reef top, lobsters waving their tentacles at us from crevices in the wall, moray eels on the reeftop swimming between and lurking under coral heads. Lots of good reef fish."


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WOW and double WOW!!!!! Although I think I'd freak if a shark got that close to me :eek:

It's lots of fun. :mrgreen:

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Great pictures. I am going through scuba withdrawl looking these.:wink:

I noticed on my first dive that there were some Candycane (or trumpet, not sure) skeletons so I looked for any that were alive but just found skeleton after skelton. I did finally find one on my last dive, I'll get back to that I'm digging up the pics.

I noticed on this next pic that the brain coral does not look good, I didn't notice on the dive. Can anyone confirm this?


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Ok here are some of the skeletons, I did find a much larger on that I guess is in the same family. I would guess the heads were twice the size, I got a pic with flash and with out. The last one I thought was a Candycane but now looking at the pics I'm not so sure.

As you can tell I'm not familiar with Candycanes or brains, I never hand one. :mrgreen:

Anyway I thought it was sad to see corals dieing I saw many more just took a few pics.


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Amazing pictures. This is just taunting me cause i haven't been on a drive for 3 years now.

Gorgous pictures, wall dives are always fun until you hit an up-current

Tilly point diving
 

I finally got out to do some local diving yesterday. Here is a pic from Tilly Point Caverns on Pender Island. I killed the screen on my dive camera but took it anyway, it's kinda hard taking pics when you don't know what mode your in or the what the settings are Never mind getting the subject in the screen. So I only got these that are even close to viewable.

Here is a pic of Jason Mck. and Jack about to get in.

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One of Jack taking a picture. I know...but this is the best one I got.

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The last two that I'll post, Jack sent me some of his that I'll get up in a bit.

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