Sunfish Diary 2009
July
At the beginning of July Sunfish had a group of underwater photographers onboard taking part in the 2009 BSoUP Splash In Competition held in Plymouth.
We had fairly poor weather with SW 3-6, sunshine, rain and a huge swell which made things interesting for them. My group thought that in general the images were nothing to really shout about, but I think there were some very good photos taken especially considering the conditions; well I couldn't have come even close to their work with my digital version of the box brownie.
Diving conditions are great at the moment, the weather is a bath-like 17.5 degrees C (OK, a rather cold bath!), and the visability is averaging 5-8m.
During a July mid week evening dive on Mudstone Ledges, we saw a pod of around 20 bottlenose dolphins on a glassy sea, with a blue sky and lovely evening sunshine - a perfect start to an evenings diving. The divers had a great dive with lots of dead mans fingers, plumose anemones, quite a few purple/brown jellyfish (cyanea capillata), wrasse, pollack; I even saw some bass when putting in the shot!
There were very few scallops, and only tiny edible crabs. The visability was around 5m and everyone had a great dive, especially those who found the swim through!