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MONTHLY CONTESTDennis Corpuz wins NUDI contest
PORTFOLIOAdriano Morettin
EASYDIVE LEO 3 The universal housing
MALDIVIAN DREAMSachika Liveaboard
OCEAN ARTThe winning pictures
NAUTICAM SMCExclusive review by Mimmo Roscigno
ISSUE N1 - MARCH 2015
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Dear Scubashooters,Its a great pleasure for me to introduce you
to our new e-magazine.It will be a bi Monthly publication available
for free on our network and we will feature always nice photos and
interesting information and news from the world of UW photography,
our world.Putting the e-magazine out of his mind was a crazy idea
of my fel-low friend and Administrator Fabio Strazzi. It is thanks
to his will and to you that this project has now become reality.Its
not even two years that the scubashooters network took its way to
the outer world and our numbers are pretty and growing bigger and
bigger day after day.We are convinced that an e-Magazine will be
another great content
for you dear lovers of the sea and for this first issue we will
feature the portfolio of Mr Adriano Morettin from Italy. You will
be amazed by the quality of his work. Beside being among the best
photographers of the globe, Adriano is always trying to show us the
beau-ty of mediterranean creatures and he likes to challenge
himself shooting non easy subject such as jellyfishes; you will be
amazed staring at Adrianos Jellyfishes of Italy. In this first
issue we will discover something more about the incredible
Luminance tech-nique mr Zul Ng from Singapore tuned to its best.
You will see the incredible gear set up Zul is bringing underwater
to captire that particular glowing that every marine life has,
luminance.We will also read about a dream vacation Mr Mauro
Mainardi wanted to share with us. Read about one of latest heavens
on Earth, the Maldives, their hidden beauties and how wonderful
could be a liveaboard experience overthere.Scubashooters.net will
always bring you the best content and the most complete expe-rience
you can expect to find on the internet so stay tuned for very
exciting and upcoming news like the new contest platform that we
will soon move out of facebook onto our fla-gship website.Thanks
for choosing us, thanks for following.Scubashooters.net - the sea
of the web
WELCOME ON BOARD
Cover imageSpirographs
by: Adriano Morettin
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PortfolioADRIANO MORETTIN
Exclusive review NAUTICAM SMC
Technique: LUMINANCE
Scubashooters.net Monthly contest: THE JUDGES
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Behind the shot: DENNIS CORPUZ
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No panic! Were divers !!DAN report
2014 OCEAN ART UW PHOTO CONTESTwinners announced
WORLD RECORD ATTEMPTWith top one diving & DAN
LEO 3 EASYDIVEUniversal DSLR housing
CRITTER CORNER
WRECKDIVINGWith Team Pitch Blue
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NA-D810 housingNauticam is pleased to announce the latest
release in its acclaimed line of precision crafted camera housings,
the NA-D810 Housing for Nikons 36.3 megapixel D810.
NA-D810 is the first underwater housing for Nikon D810 to be
shown publicly, and will be on the shelves of dealers, and in the
hands of users, by the end of August. Nauticam once again leads the
industry by delivering this superior system less than 6 weeks from
the initial camera ship date.
The NA-D810 HousingThe NA-D810 is an evolutionary marvel. A long
list of pioneering engineering breakthroughs from previous Nauticam
designs are now stan-dard in NA-D810. The patented housing Locking
Latch System has received acclaim worldwide for its ease and
functionality. These recessed latches are equipped with safety
locks, redu-ce bulk and require minimal physical effort to engage
and release. Port changes have never been simpler than utilizing
the Patented Nauti-
cam Locking Port Release. No wrestling, no twisting, no
misalignment - just seat and lock. Lens changes are also easily
accomplished without removing the camera from the hou-sing using
the lens release button logically accessed on the housing front.
The lightwei-ght, rugged Nauticam handles are generously contoured
with a durable over-mold pro-cess of comfortable non-slip rubber.
The vacuum monitoring and leak detection circuit provides peace of
mind by enabling the user to ensure that their housing is water
tight before entering the water.
The NA-810 is a shining example of the best that Nauticam has to
offer. Every control placement is well thought out. Every button,
lever and switch considered not in terms of what is easier for the
designer, but what is right for the shooter. An excellent example
is the patent pending Multi Controller Pad that is located within
easy reach of the right thumb. The device virtually recreates the
Nikon multi selector on the back of the NA-810 housing allowing
full multidirectional use of this powerful tool (including diagonal
movement). No other manufactu-rer has this. Camera loading is drop
in simple, with no controls requiring pre-alignment, allowing the
fastest and easiest setup possible.
Core camera controls such as shutter release, aperture, shutter
speed, live view, info, exposure compensation, depth of field
preview, Fn, flash exposure compensation,
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focus mode, AF/M and zoom are located at the users fin-gertips.
Dual thumb levers, located on the right and left si-
des of NA-D810 pull important camera functionality from the back
of the housing out to the handles. This allows quick access to
Video Record, AF-ON (for thumb activated focus), ISO and Image
Playback. Complete control of the camera is available from the
ergonomic rubberized handles.
NA-D810 Feature Checklist-Unsurpassed build quality, designed by
an award winning engineering team, and produced utili-zing the most
modern manufacturing technolo-gy available. The NA-810 is a shining
example of the best that Nauticam has to offer. Every control
placement is well thought out. Every button, le-ver and switch
considered not in terms of what is easier for the designer, but
what is right for the shooter. An excellent example is the patent
pending Multi Controller Pad that is located wi-
thin easy reach of the right thumb. The device virtually
recreates the Nikon mul-ti selector on the back of the NA-810
housing allowing full multidirectional use of this powerful tool
(including diagonal movement). The NA-810 is a shining exam-ple of
the best that Nauticam has to offer. Every control placement is
well thought out. Every button, lever and switch considered not in
terms of what is easier for the designer, but what is right for the
shooter. An excellent example is the patent pending Multi
Controller Pad that is located within easy reach of the right
thumb. The device virtually recreates the Nikon multi selector on
the back of the NA-810 housing allowing full multidirectional use
of this powerful tool (including diagonal movement). No other
manufacturer has this. Camera loading is drop in simple, with no
controls requiring pre-alignment, allowing the fastest and easiest
setup pos-sible. Core camera controls such as shutter release,
aperture, shutter speed, live view, info, exposure compensation,
depth of field preview, Fn, flash exposure com-pensation, focus
mode, AF/M and zoom are located at the users fingertips. Dual thumb
levers, located on the right and left sides of NA-D810 pull
important camera functionality from the back of the housing out to
the handles. This allows quick ac-cess to Video Record, AF-ON (for
thumb activated focus), ISO and Image Playback. Complete control of
the camera is available from the ergonomic rubberized handles.
NA-D810 Feature Checklist-Unsurpassed build quality, designed by an
award winning engineering team, and produced utilizing the most
modern manufacturing technology available.-Ergonomically placed
controls with size, shape, and color differentiation.-Access to all
camera controls. All controls clearly labeled.-Patented two stage
shutter release system, allowing precise feel over half press
and
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full press.-Patented Port Locking System. NA-D810 Feature
Checklist-Unsurpassed build quality, designed by an award winning
engineering team, and pro-duced utilizing the most modern
manufacturing technology available.-Ergonomically placed controls
with size, shape, and color differentiation.
-Access to all camera controls. All controls clearly
labeled.-Patented two stage shutter release system, allowing
precise feel over half press and full press.-Patented Port Locking
System.-Patent pending Multi Controller pad.-Lens release
button.-Easy to operate locking housing latches.-Rubberized
ergonomic grips.-Quick release camera mounting plate.-Optical
strobe connectors for fiber optic flash triggering.-Dual M16
accessory holes for electrical bulkhead, HDMI, hydrophone, or
vacuum valve installation.-Integrated vacuum monitoring and leak
detection circuit (valve optional).-Dual 1 (25mm) strobe mounting
balls included as standard equipment.-1/4-20 tripod mounting
holes.-Dual 10mm threaded accessory mounting points.-.66x optical
glass pickup finder (magnifying 180 and 45 viewfinders available
optional-ly).-100m Depth Rating.
ViewfindersPrecision requires vision: A high resolution camera
like the Nikon D810 demands per-fect focus for optimal results.
Fortunately, Nauticam has developed the most user-frien-dly
interchangeable viewfinders available.
The standard optical glass viewfin-der is very good and travel
friendly, but many photographers prefer the ease of a magnified
viewfinder with adjustable diopter. Nauticam pro-duces a straight
180 enlarging viewfinder and a 45 angled en-larging viewfinder to
enhance the ease of close quarters work often associated with macro
shooting. Both viewfinders have high quality optics, and allow
bright viewing of the entire image. A patented exter-nal dioptric
adjustment allows per-
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sonal adjustment to a sharp-as-a-tack standard underwater and
viewfinder changes can be executed in less than 30 seconds without
using tools. Excep-tional composition and focus accuracy have never
been more accessible.
Recommended Accessories
180 Enhancing Viewfinder (32201).
45 Enhancing Viewfinder (32203).
Patent Pending Super Macro Converter (81201), providing 2.3:1
reproduction ration with the popular AF-S 105mm /2.8G VR Macro
Lens.
Vacuum Valve (25612).
Complete line of flat and dome ports for all major lenses,
available in acrylic and glass.
Locking port extension rings from 10mm to 90mm.
Monitor/Recorder Housing for Atomos Ninja2 (17902).
Monitor Housing for SmallHD DP4 Monitor (17901).
Fiber optic cables for Inon (26211) and Sea&Sea (26212).
Full line of mounting accessories for lighting, including mount
balls, strobe adapters, arms, clamps, and specialty items.
Multiple styles of lanyards.
Lens holders, including flip-up.
Focus and Zoom gears for many Nikon, Tokina, and Sigma
lenses.
Port Adapters for Aquatica, Ikelite, Inon, Nexus M5 & M6,
Sea & Sea NX, Se-acam, Subal Version 3 & 4, and Zillion.
Handle accessories including smaller handles, handle extensions for
cold water diving.Technical DataDepth Rating: 100mWeight:
2.9kgDimensions (with handles mounted): 350mm (w) x 208mm (h) x
134mm (d)
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CABILAOA SMALL ISLAND FOR SMALL CREATURES
Today, we visit a really tiny island: Cabilao. Cabilao is
located at the west side of Bohol (Visayas, Philippines). 3500
Inhabitants live the-re in 5 villages. The entire Island measures
about 7,5 km2. And a beautiful reef surrounds it: A paradise for
our tiniest creatures, a mar-vel in the oceanThe entire island is a
natu-re reserve and around the Island, there are two fish
protection areas. Diving is most beautiful at north side. But there
are other nice pla-ces, too.
A special show at the house reefLets dive Cambaquiz! Lo-cated
just in front of the Cabilao Beach Club, Cam-baquiz is a split dive
spot. Depending on the current you can dive one or the other.
Cambaquiz 1 is in the south of the corner, Cambaquiz 2 in the
north. There we go now. Of course, in Cabilao you have mounted the
macro gear. So its not a surprise that the first creature we saw
was a turtle. But no wor-ries, the small creatures are waiting. The
first dive was an easy dive but neverthe-less we saw a lot:
porcelain crab, a tiny juvenile scorpion fish, shrimps, blennies,
spi-der crabs and much more. It
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was such a nice dive, that we decided to attach a night dive at
the same spot.We were diving only for a few minutes, when we
spotted a pygmy squid. We stayed, observed and took a few pics. All
of a sudden it started to move in zigzag. When it came to a rest
again on a piece of wood we saw the reason: the pygmy squid catch a
tiny shrimp. Now its eating it unhurriedly, regardless the audience
around. This was a great show in Cabilao!
TravellingCabilao is worth to stay a bit longer or combine the
trip with other destinations around in the Visayas. The best you
can do is flying with Singapore Airlines, my favorite airline
regarding comfort, connections and fares, to Singapore and then
directly to Cebu avoiding the hassle of Manilas airport. From Cebu,
your trip takes you with the speed ferry to Tagbilaran. There you
take the bus to Sandingan, where a little boat
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awaits you for the last part right to Cabilao. The diving
compensates for long travel. For example at Lighthouse, which is a
spacy slope with sandy bot-tom and sea grass. We met the devilfish,
sea snakes, ca-tfishes, harlequin and man-tis shrimps and the blue
starfish with the little blue slug on the lower side. The place is
also inhabited by many different nudibran-ches. Lighthouse is
widely seen as one of the best dive places around the
Philippi-nes.
Diving more placesCabilaos pristine reef are profiting from two
marine protected areas around the Island and the only traditio-nal
fishing by the inhabitan-ts. A little bit south of Li-ghthouse is
the Gorgonia Wall. The gorgonias are be-autiful and home of the
pyg-my seahorses Hippocampus denise and the yellow bar-gibanti.
Leaf fishes, Orang Utan Crabs and egg cowries made the dive a
fantastic experience. Sandingan Island is the pla-ce where the bus
threw us out to take the boat to Ca-bilao. Its also a great dive
place and sometimes the dive boats go there, too. At Sandingan we
find the red bargibanti pygmy seahor-se, spider crabs, porcelain
crabs, alot of nudibranches and beautiful corals.
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Though the currents are changing quite frequently, Cabi-lao is
quite easy to dive. You always find a spot around the Island with
convenient conditions.
Cabilao: A quiet place to relax and diveCabilao is a quiet
island. Theres no disco, no shopping mall. Its best for recreation
and diving. The live is simple here. People live from agriculture
and traditional fishing. The resort of choice here is Pura Vida
Cabilao, formerly known as Cabilao Beach Club where I stayed. And I
can only recommend it. Since 2012 there are new very comfor-table
and very nice rooms available. Power is supplied 24h despite the
Island still got no power during the night. Su-zette and Uwe
Steinle are leading the resort and dive base in a professional and
super friendly manner. They make the paradise even better!
Diving aroundPangangan Wall is located a few minutes northeast
from Cabilao and absolutely worth a dive. Despite looking a bit
empty (fishwise) one can find a lot of small creatures. One of the
cutest is the pegasus seamoth: Its really a funny fish running over
the sandy bottom like a flying moth.
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Back to the Resort we make a final dive at Cambaquiz 1, the
other part of the house reef. Till 10m (33ft) depth the bottom is
sandy with sea grass, then coral formations starts to occur. Its
the home of many nudibranch including head shield slugs and ornate
ghost pipefishes. Porcelain crabs live in the anemones together
with shrimps, small cuttlefishes swim around. Cabilao is really a
paradise for macro fans and photographers!
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LEARN UNDERWATERPHOTOGRAPHY - A/Z UWPWith Oktay Calisir
I would like to take this opportunity to give a warm welcome to
the first issue of the online magazine for underwater photography:
SCUBA-SHOOTERS! We are working hard so you can enjoy reading every
issue and hope that it will give you all the information necessary
to be a more successful underwater photographer.In this part of the
magazine: Learn Underwater Photography | A-Z, I will try to give
every reader as much as possible information, while keeping it as
easy as possible for everyone, how to learn underwater photography
and take more color-ful and beautiful images. Every section will
cover
information for the newly beginning photographer with a compact
camera up to the more advan-ced SLR system user.I want to use
minimum technical words as this mostly does create more confusion
about it then help beginning photographers to concentrate on
shooting beautiful images in the easiest ways... We will start in
the beginning with the basics of general photography and advancing
in each issue through subjects like:
Basics of Photography. Compact versus SLR. Choosing the right
equipment. (Cameras, Housings, Lenses, Strobes,
Accessories, etc.). Diving & Traveling as a photographer.
Equipment maintenance, care & repair (Camera, Lens &
Underwater Gear). Colors & Light Underwater. Composition. Use
of Strobes. Creative Photography. Post processing, workflow,
organizing and editing images using Lightroom.
And many more interesting articles as this is a very broad
subject and I would like to encourage everyone to ask their
questions and I will answer them within these articles with every
issue of this magazine.
I would like to introduce myself to you as well so you can know
my background.My name is Oktay Calisir and I started with
underwater photo-graphy in 2009 with a basic compact camera.
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My love for the ocean and marine environment began many years
ago and can be traced back to my childho-od, where during holidays
at the Aegean Sea I was walking sometimes for miles to get to the
beach to go snorke-ling and spend the whole day there. Later I
studied CNC Software Programming for CNC Milling and Turning Lathe
machines, where in this field I worked for a short period of time
but soon realized that my love for the Oceans was calling and I was
mentally not satisfied with the field of work I was in.I started
working for many years in the Tourism Industry as an Instructor for
Windsurfing, Kite-surfing and Catamaran Sailing, which were my
hobbies before. Photography was always a hobby for me as well, but
when I had an accident in the Indian Ocean, while I was the manager
of a Wa-ter-Sports Base in the Maldives which ripped my sciatic
nerve, I had to choose less extreme sports because I could not risk
to step on windsurf and kitesurf boards anymore due to my sciatic
nerve injury.Thats when I began to combine my diving and underwater
photography journey. I have learned most of my knowledge in
underwater photography through online researches, hours of reading
books and resources related to photography, and kept shooting,
shooting and more shooting...I have traveled to many destinations
in the World to shoot the beauty of the underwater environ-ment and
gained valuable experience and knowledge in this field. Traveling
to many destinations and being together with divers from around the
world who just started diving or are advanced divers already, has
given me also the opportunity to learn what divers who starts in
underwater photography needs and wants to learn. In an
ever-advancing world of technology where every day something new is
released, it can be
sometimes hard to keep up with all the information that is
gi-ven. Thats why I want to keep this as simple as possible, newly
starting underwater photographers are already presented with an
overwhelming amount of information and advanced pho-tographers have
sometimes just not the time to keep up with everything. Today I am
a FULL CAVE DIVER, PADI SCUBA INSTRUCTOR and do work in the field
of underwater photography, organize small group travels to
underwater photography destinations.I hope you will enjoy in the
future this part of the magazine and I am looking forward in future
issues to interact and answer all the questions you might have
regarding underwater photo-graphy. In the next we will start with:
Basics of Photography!Please find below my contact details:
Oktay Calisirwww.ocalisir.com
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Divingo (www.divingo.it) is the new website reference, made in
Italy about the world of diving.With Divingo all amateurs and
professionals can find diving spots, diving center, specialized
shops, diving schools and sports clubs and receive infor-mation,
contacts, directions and special offers.
One of the strengths of the portal is the ability to print for
free and without registration exclusive coupons offering deep
discounts for courses, diving tours, travel, and equipment.Divingo
born because the Italian world sub has not a real point of
reference with which communicate on Internet with simplicity,
quality and wealth of infor-mation.
The success of Divingo starts from this simplicity and ease of
use: already on the homepage you can see the map that sum-marizes
and highlights the centers and possible activities in Italy.In fact
the project, started from just two months, already has more than
900 centers included throughout the country and now aims to conquer
foreign
markets thanks to the translation of the entire site in English
and to agreements for the insertion of centers in Europe .It will
not be an immediate process, but the good response at the national
level bodes well for rapid growth of the project.
The peculiarity of the portal is in the fact, that are not
present only structures that can afford a showcase inter-net. For
this reason it was decided to activate a basic ser-vice free
thinking of the small companies and startups, consumers and people
who visit the portal, offering first of all complete information.
Divingo in fact offers free use of facilities that want to join the
project immediate visibility or a number of subscriptions to insert
more information, content and offers.Visiting Divingo will also
find photo galleries and a blog with arti-cles and curiosity,
travel and environment. Also the staff that runs
the site is always careful to interact with visitors through the
many social channels and share the information and pictures of the
users.Lastly the portal offers and invites all divers, to leave a
review and share real news for the benefit of future users of the
same structures.The dream of every sub is to discover a sunken
treasure: Divingo is the treasure map!
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Words and picturesMauro Mainardi
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Im on board: Sachika Safari boat. I want to see big stuff and
this is the perfect place... Life is like that: being in the right
place at the right time. And this is the right boat...It just after
dawn and we are going to have the first dive.6:15 am. A cup of tea
and Im ready to set my photographic equipment. The dhoni crew have
already set up and checked the thanks, the jacket and all the
underwater equipment. They are waiting for us.Usually I have to
assemble the equipment and check everything by myself but here Im
relieved of any task concerning diving stuff.What are we going to
discover today? Tree, four dives a day, feeling amazed and thrilled
at any time.Sharks, this morning!So many elegant gray sharks and
the harm-less white tips sharks! Giacomo Ganda, the dive leader is
a marine byologist, expert in maldivian dives. He tells us that
there will be a lot of underwater current in this place. We will
use hooks to latch on the rocks. It goes without saying: no
currents, no sharks.
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We go down quickly and suddendly we see grey sharks hunting near
the passe. They are quiet, not concerned with us. We stop near a
rock waiting for them to come nearer. Stan-ding still, we admire
their amazing beauty. They dont care about currents, they swim
upstream with elegant movement... magnifi-cent result of evolution
that made them per-fect predators. Closer and closer. They are
curious and not at all shy. Three meters, a meter, and then pass
you over, regardless of your presence. Three quarters of an hour
are gone and we have to go up. It seemed only three minutes, for I
was captured by all this beauty and busy
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Giacomo... now what do you offer? The answer leaves me with a
slightly dazed smile on my lips: manta rays, whale sharks, the
sharks nursery or the rare guitar shark...So much! Can I stay here
other three mon-ths?Mantas. This is a unique dive site in the
Mal-dives and one of the few in the world whe-re you can dive with
manta rays at night. Im excited and Im waiting for this dive!. We
turn on a light that enlighten the transparent water under the
boat. Manta rays will come to eat the plankton that gathers under
the light. The first manta arrives after half an hour. Guys down,
down!! I can see the man-ta circle dancing so near to me that I
could touch it! Photos, photos and more photos !! If the Sharks
have the feeding frenzy I have the photographic frenzy. Giacomo
asks me to stay down on the sandy bottom. Its hard for me, I would
like to dance with the manta!.
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Ok... I try to listen to the guide and I lean quiet on the sand,
the light of the boat as a background. Great photo guys !! I cant
wait to download them to my computer! And the manta still dance,
turning over our heads and my he-art is full of emotions. A manta
dancing 10 inches from me! Amazing!
Whale shark. Are you sure that we will meet it? I ask Giacomo.
He smiles Well, with a little luck... in agreement with other
boats, you know, we can... here everything is possible. This is my
second cruise with him and last time he succedeed in making me swim
with the whale shark. Maybe this will be another success? And
yes... there it is! The eight meters good giant! I jump in the
water with snorkel, fins and my camera. Where it is? Giacomo
shouts: there, there, wake up! O hell, I was about to collide with
it! I would like to touch it but I cant! We stay 10 minutes
swimming with it. I can see his small
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eyes, big as a golf ball. Its probably wonde-ring who is this
funny little guy with strange things instead of fins and a snorkel
coming out from the head. A new species of fish ?? But it
understands that Im not a danger to it and it only cares about
eating plankton. Even if its so huge, it makes me feel a kind of
ten-derness so great and so good.Other dives. It is extremely
difficult to descri-be all the dives and the dive sites. They are
so many and so amazing! Which one? The baby shark nursery stunned
me! Dozens of small sharks hidden under Acropora, breathing, moving
and growing. Such a beautiful image! A wonderful dive full of sweet
feelings. I hope that all of them will become majestic adult
sharks.How not to mention the rare guitar shark with the
suckerfishes above it? It was so quiet and confident that allowed
me to get really close so I could open the lens at 10mm and take
spectacular pictures!!And the variety of anemones... violet, blue,
pink, white with little clownfishes playing
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hide and seek inside them. How many won-derful creaturesThe week
is over, I have to leave the Sachika boat and sadly go back to
Italy.The Safari Boat is undoubtedly the best holi-day for any
diver.Every day you can discover diving spots that are difficult to
reach with boat trips from the islands. You move constantly
visiting many different areas and having the opportunity to dive in
diving sites that offer a great bio-diversity.Also logistics is
very simplified: no thank and equipment movement, everything is on
the dhoni always available.The Safari boats are equipped exactly
like hotels but they have the advantage of being quiet and cozy You
meet people that beco-mes like old friends in a short time with
wich you share the great love for the nature and the sea. You find
yourself talking maybe in four different languages but with one
com-mon passion.The crew is always friendly and helpful,
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there are many common areas, the rooms are spacious and
comfortable, lunches and dinners become social occasions, to
exchange ideas and experiences.You can not explain the experience
of freedom that you feel looking at the horizon from the deck of a
boat at sunset ... you have to try it!A big thank you to the
Sachika crew to the brilliant chef and a big hug to the one and
unique Giacomo Ganda, my mentor and great friend, always helpful
and careful to the needs of us crazy underwater photographers
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The hard work is over! (or has it just started?)Here it is: the
1st MicroScubaMEGAStore in the world is in MILAN, near to the
famous Madonnina, beside of the clear waters (for now !!!!!) of the
Naviglio.
The concept is pretty clear and the result is obtained by
combining and blending a number of ingredients such as
professionalism, expe-rience, customer service, products selection,
and last but not least, PRICE.
At Sportissimo Milano you will always find the best
quality/price ra-tio and this is more important then the mere
price.Sportissimo Milano is a DIVINGSTORE in the city, with a
MEGA-SELEC-TION of items.
You will find the best products and the best brands, you will
see and touch and try (many products are available also to an
underwater test) before you decide to buy anything.A TRUE SHOP
where you can chat, take counsel, take courses, plan dives, plan
holidays (also by motorbike with scubabikers.com), revise your
equipment... always face to face!
Recently we published our new
website!www.sportissimomilano.com
A MEGAStore on-line in which you will find a huge amount of
selected and guaranteed items. You will find all the latest
products and special offers such as warranty extension, all
inclusive equipment inspections and many other!Sportissimo Milano
is also on facebook: click like
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The hard work is over! (or has it just started?)Here it is: the
1st MicroScubaMEGAStore in the world is in MILAN, near to the
famous Madonnina, beside of the clear waters (for now !!!!!) of the
Naviglio.
The concept is pretty clear and the result is obtained by
combining and blending a number of ingredients such as
professionalism, expe-rience, customer service, products selection,
and last but not least, PRICE.
At Sportissimo Milano you will always find the best
quality/price ra-tio and this is more important then the mere
price.Sportissimo Milano is a DIVINGSTORE in the city, with a
MEGA-SELEC-TION of items.
You will find the best products and the best brands, you will
see and touch and try (many products are available also to an
underwater test) before you decide to buy anything.A TRUE SHOP
where you can chat, take counsel, take courses, plan dives, plan
holidays (also by motorbike with scubabikers.com), revise your
equipment... always face to face!
Recently we published our new
website!www.sportissimomilano.com
A MEGAStore on-line in which you will find a huge amount of
selected and guaranteed items. You will find all the latest
products and special offers such as warranty extension, all
inclusive equipment inspections and many other!Sportissimo Milano
is also on facebook: click like
herehttps://www.facebook.com/sportissimo.milano?fref=ts
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Via Giulio Romano) 20136 Milano (IT)Ph: +39 02 58305014 - e-mail:
[email protected]
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Born in Trieste, a city of the sea and seafaring traditions, Ive
always had a strong at-traction to this element, and especially in
relation to what lies beneath its surface.
The big attraction and curiosity towards the sixth continent,
which still accompanies me, pushed me to get all the patents to
become a diving instructor.
But the turning point that me fall in love intensely of the sea
and its inhabitants took place about twenty years ago when for the
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Since then, underwater photography has become an integral part
of my life and I can not imagine one without the other.
This great passion has allowed me to win two italian titles in
Underwater Photo Safari and especially to excel with my pictures in
the most prestigious competitions in the world of underwater
photography, to obtain the two most coveted titles for an
underwater photo-grapher: the Plongeur dOr in Portfolio at the
Festival Mondial de lImage sous Marine in Marseille in 2009 and to
be finalist in 50 Wildlife Photographer of the Year at Natural
Hi-story Museum of London in 2014.
Underwater photography has led me to dive in different seas of
the world and particularly in the Indonesian seas, where nature
model a fantastic underwater world and outstanding in the multitude
of living beings so special and colorful that composed it, so to
confuse the mortal who is lucky enough to admire them.
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You come as a guestbut leave as a friend
With our friendly, personal and pro-fessional approach come and
enjoy warm Bedouin hospitality in a relaxed setting with stunning
views of Tiran island.Sharks Bay Umbi is a picturesque bay with
everything on site its own private jetty, dive centre, boats,
restaurant, Bedouin cafe and 3 types of accommodation -
making it the per-fect resort for
your next holiday. Unique in the area,
Sharks Bay Umbi mana-ges to retain a friendly village feel
whilst still being only ten minutes from the bright lights of Sharm
El Sheikh. Sharm residents describe the bay as having the feel of
how Sharm used to be before the ar-rival of large scale
tourism.
Free Nitroxto qualified diversFree airport transfersfor hotel
guests
Discounts apply for all bookings made before the end of 2015 -
T&Cs applyTo redeem these very special offers please quote
CLICK2015 at the time of booking
AccommodationSharks Bay Umbi offers traditio-nal Bedouin style
and hospitality alongside modern facilities.We have three types of
accommo-dation to fit every budget: Bedouin Village Rooms, Beach
Cabins and View Huts.
25% offAccommodation(bed and breakfast)
20% offDaily diving
10% offPADI and SSI courses
10% offLiveaboards
[email protected]
10% off UW Photography Workshop hosted by RICO BESSERDICH from
23rd 30th May 2015
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You come as a guestbut leave as a friend
With our friendly, personal and pro-fessional approach come and
enjoy warm Bedouin hospitality in a relaxed setting with stunning
views of Tiran island.Sharks Bay Umbi is a picturesque bay with
everything on site its own private jetty, dive centre, boats,
restaurant, Bedouin cafe and 3 types of accommodation -
making it the per-fect resort for
your next holiday. Unique in the area,
Sharks Bay Umbi mana-ges to retain a friendly village feel
whilst still being only ten minutes from the bright lights of Sharm
El Sheikh. Sharm residents describe the bay as having the feel of
how Sharm used to be before the ar-rival of large scale
tourism.
Free Nitroxto qualified diversFree airport transfersfor hotel
guests
Discounts apply for all bookings made before the end of 2015 -
T&Cs applyTo redeem these very special offers please quote
CLICK2015 at the time of booking
AccommodationSharks Bay Umbi offers traditio-nal Bedouin style
and hospitality alongside modern facilities.We have three types of
accommo-dation to fit every budget: Bedouin Village Rooms, Beach
Cabins and View Huts.
25% offAccommodation(bed and breakfast)
20% offDaily diving
10% offPADI and SSI courses
10% offLiveaboards
[email protected]
10% off UW Photography Workshop hosted by RICO BESSERDICH from
23rd 30th May 2015
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SHARKS BAY UMBI DIVING VILLAGEpresents:
UW PHOTOHRAPHY WORKSHOP
With R I C O B E S S E R D I C H From 23rd May to 30th May
2015
Price 649 per person(incl. accommodation, half board, diving
and
workshop)
Sharks Bay Umbi Diving Village are very happy to offer our first
UW Pho-tography Workshop hosted by RICO BESSERDICH. Rico is a
photographer, journalist and artist renowned in the underwater
photographic world having won awards and acclaim worldwide. Born in
Germany in 1968, he became interest-ed in photography at a very
young age but his real passion for the subject came to the fore
after he discovered scuba diving in 1998. On becoming an instructor
in 2000 he was able to combine his love for diving and photography
by focusing on his Aquatic Photography which has earnt him his just
reputation as being one
of the best in this field. His work has been published in
magazines worldwide and has won him many awards and accolades.
Successful photography does not depend on the technology used
but on the eyes and the mind of the photographer.
The goal of this workshop with Rico will not only be to master
dif-ferent techniques of underwater photography but also to develop
the photographers own unique style and personal vision. This will
then help each participant to step out of the masses with their
photographic work and images.
Whats included in the price?
Return airport transfers 5 day UW Photography Workshop with
evening sessions and presentations 13 dives - 3 days shore diving
with 3 dives a day and 2 days from the boat with 2 dives a day 7
nights of accommodation in a double Beach Cabin incl. tax &
service charges Half board catering & 1 special barbecue night
Free Nitrox (12 ltr cylinders)
Whats NOT included in the price?
National park feesFuel surcharge on daily boatsNight dive/s and
third boat divesLunch & drinksCamera, equipment & torch
rentalOptional extras including - 6th day diving and upgrade of
accommodationSingle supplement
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With R I C O B E S S E R D I C H From 23rd May to 30th May
2015
Optional Extras
Upgrade to Bedouin Village room of 30 per person, per week
sharing a double/twin roomSingle supplement for the week of 30
(Beach Cabin) 60 (Bedouin Village)Extra (6th) days diving 34
excluding equipment rentalShore night dives excl. torch (35 per
person), third dive from the boat (20 per person)
Additional Information:
Instead of long classroom sessions each participant will get
individual coaching to achieve the ob-jectives they are striving
for. To offer a more personalised experience the number of
participants is kept to a small number; a minimum of 5 guests up to
a maximum of 12 guests. For those who are very new to underwater
photography then we would recommend, to get the most from this
workshop, that you make the PADI UW Photography Specialty prior to
beginning the workshop. Rico will be diving with you throughout and
will plan the best sites for you to develop your photo-graphic
skills.The evenings will be spent together over leisurely, relaxed
dinners and with ample time to focus on the days events with
discussions and presentations throughout.The five days diving will
be a combination of shore dives and boat dives which will not only
give you the chance to improve your photographic skills, but also
to dive on some of the best sites in the Red Sea with an expert on
hand at all times!All the beach cabins are air-conditioned with
en-suite shower, toilet and mini fridge. All cabins are
twin-bedded. Price includes breakfast and dinner in our Seafood
Restaurant (drinks excluded) and a BBQ on one night.
The basic requirements to participate in the course are that
you;
Are qualified to Advanced Open Water level (or equivalent)Have a
minimum of 25 logged divesHave good buoyancy skills and dive
responsibly in a buddy teamHave your own underwater camera
(compact, mirrorless, d-slr) and it is recommended, but not
mandatory, that you have an external strobeHave used your UW camera
before and have at least a basic knowledge of UW photographySpeak
English or German
Conditions
Participants must have dived within 6 months prior to the
workshop Package price is based on two people sharing a double room
(single supplements will apply) Equipment rental is not included;
full equipment costs 25 per person per day Ras Mohamed National
Park fee is 5 Fuel supplement on daily boat diving days is 2 per
person, per day The workshop requires a minimum of 5 participants
and a non-refundable deposit of 200 is re-quired to guarantee your
place Participants must have personal insurance cover and ensure
the good working condition of their equipmentSharks Bay Umbi Diving
Village and Rico Besserdich do not assume any liability or
responsibility for lost, damaged or stolen equipment
If you would like more detailed information on the workshop
content then you can con-tact Rico directly at:
[email protected] detailed enquiries and bookings you can
contact us at: [email protected] or one of our agents
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Recently I decided to change my wet-lens for macro photo-graphy.
The Nauticam SMC-1 was already a strong candidate in my mind. I
have been a long time user and owner of both the Subsee and the
pricier Macro-mate wet-lenses which are both are great quality and
powerful +10 dioptre afocal lenses. I had read several reliable and
trusted reviews about the Nauticam SMC-1. The sample photos there
showed clearly the high quality results you can get by using the
Nauticam SMC-1. For example the very sharp inside on-focus areas
and amazing bokeh, for me, demonstrated clearly the capability of
this lens. I still had one question in my mind. How well would this
lens perform to-gether with my 105vr Nikon? I would have had the
same que-stion if I possessed a Canon 100 as the Nauticam SMC-1 has
been especially developed to best ser-ve these two powerful macro
len-ses. I was especially interested in use of maximum aperture
(mi-nimum depth of field), trying to frame correctly a tiny
subject, scares ambient lighting and mo-ving subject? In other
words, would such powerful amount of magnification be convenient
and handy or would it have turned out to be a drawback during the
pre-shooting phase when speed and readiness are essential to
prevent losing the correct fra-ming and focus of a microscopic
subject?Well, I have been really surprised and pleased to see how
much easier it is to correctly frame
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tiny subjects without a high colour contrast using the Nauticam
SMC-1 compared to the lenses.I have been using before, and how
friendly it is to frame composition with this lens. se results have
been made possible thanks to the great build quality of the optical
elemen-ts along with the amazing design of the whole group of
lenses.
These results have been made pos-sible thanks to the great build
quali-ty of the optical elements along with the amazing design of
the whole group of lenses. Optical aberrations that you would
normally find in this kind of product are really reduced to a
minimum for such a powerful magnifying device. Finally the big
diameter of the lens (big lens me-ans big light but also big
weight) is directly linked to the incredible bri-ghtness of this
piece of glass.
After about 20 dives in the Mediter-ranean I had the chance to
test it in one of the supermacro paradises of the world, The
Philippines. It was here that the biggest problem of this lens
surfaced! I wanted to illuminate the subject with my strobe in
order to obtain a more oblique lighting; well, I en-ded up with
some very annoying flares showing up in the picture. I soon
found the culprit to be the big diameter of the lens allowing in
so much light, that it was even catching unwanted light and
allowing it into the camera. To solve this annoyance I used a
little Italian ingenui-ty, a lot of experien-ce from my dry
photography.
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The solution was to buy a 67mm lens hood that would perfectly
fit the 67mm thread of the Nau-ticam SMC-1 to be able to say
goodbye to the flares.
In the Philippines I was also given the opportunity to try other
lenses, competitors of Nauticam, and I was really cu-rious and
hopeful to find some good rivals for the SMC-1. I must say that I
really wanted to find something wrong with the Nauticam. So far the
price sets the SMC-1 among the pri-ciest wetlenses available on the
market at the moment. I have seen photos shot with competi-tor
lenses, both macro and su-permacro, and looking at those photos I
was convinced that the overall quality was more than
acceptable.
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That was until live trials in the field showed them to be really
the worst resul-ts you can expect from a wetlens! They were all
almost unusable during the pre-shooting phase without even pushing
the magnification too much and a lot of optical aberrations that
would make the subject acquisition in the DSLR view-finder almost
impossible.
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CENTRO SUB CAMPI FLEGREI was established in 1992 and is
orientated towards recreational diving activities.The diving centre
has two bases within the area of the Phlegraean Fields. One is
located in Pozzuoli and is home to the secretariat, the classrooms,
the Incoming Service and the workshop for equipment inspection and
main-tenance. The second is in Lucrino direct on
the shore of the underwater Archaeology Park of Baiae where all
the facilities associated with beach front diving activities, e.g.
showers, changing rooms, equipment rinsing facilities, tank filling
station, jetty for the boats, bars, sun decks, etc., are to be
found.We offer the following services:
COURSES: We offer PADI, CMAS and PTA courses ranging from
introduction dives through to instructor level training, including
numerous specialites. The diving centres classroom is equipped with
didactic materials and multimedia facilities to meet all training
requirements. Training is also carried out in the field of
underwater archaeology via courses from NAS and PADI (Distinctive
Specialty).
EQUIPMENT: The diving centre has three Coltri Sub compressors, a
Coltri Sub membrane compressor (ni-trox for free!), trimix blending
facilities, 50 complete sets of diving equipment, a workshop for
any necessary repairs and ample wet and dry storage areas.
GUIDED TOURS: We offer di-ving at sites within the sunken city
of Baiae, in the Gulf of Naples and around the Phle-graean islands
of Ischia and Procida. Transfer to these
sites is provided by our own rhibs (8m and 7m).
INCOMING SERVICE: In collaboration with other entities within
the tourism sector, we various different itineraries combining
activities both underwater and on land which enable visitors to
discover the wonders within our locality.TOURISM: We organise
weekend diving packages. Longer holidays and cruises are also
regu-larly arranged both locally and overseas (in partnership with
other tourist agencies).
EVENTS: In association with local agencies, training
organisations and clubs the diving centre organises events and
informative demonstrations to encourage a more environmentally
con-scious culture, particularly with respect to gaining a deeper
respect for the marine environ-ment and promoting its
protection.Experienced instructors and a welcoming atmosphere
ensure your diving experience will be both safe and fun.
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THE UNDERWATER ARCHAEOLOGICAL PARK OF BAIAE - FROM A COMMERCIAL
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On 30th January 2007 an agreement was signed between the
Archaeological Authority of Naples and Caserta and the association
Assodiving Flegreum, represented by Centro Sub Campi Flegrei, for
the concession and regulation of diving activities within the
underwater Archaeological Park of Baiae.
In order to follow the chain of events which led to the park
constitution it must first be explained why this area presently
lies below sea level.
We find ourselves in the Phlegraean Fields (taken from the
Greek, burning earth). In this zone of volcanic origin, the
phenomenon of bradyseism exists; the uplift (positive bradyseism)
or subsidence (negative bradyseism) of the ground is relatively
slow in respect to human life ti-mes but is very fast when
considered over geological time scales. At times, as is the case
with the Phlegraean Fields, these movements can occur and reoccur
in cycle over a period of cen-turies. Generally, such a phenomenon
is associated with varying volumes of a magma cham-ber located
relatively close to the earth surface which empties and fills
and/or heat variations which influence the volume of water
contained within the excessively porous subsoil. Due to the
bradyseismic movements the ancient coastal belt experienced
collapse the result being the total submersion of all the buildings
which were constructed upon it. The once most reclaimed commercial
city of Pozzuoli, the famous residential area of Baiae and Miseno,
the seat of the western imperial fleet, were all of great
significance during the Roman era; today, they are all below sea
level. The first recovery of archaeological finds took place in the
1920s when, during the construction works pertaining to the
widening of the docks at Port Venero, sculptures, architectonic
elements and water systems with imperial insignias came to
light.
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In the 1940s, aerial photographs taken by pilot Raimondo
Baucher, provided evidence of the submerged archaeolo-gical area of
Portus Julius in the shallow waters directly in front of Lake
Lucrine.In spite of the interest raised by these discoveries the
first underwater survey of Baiae did not take place until the
1960s; surveys carried out in 1959 and 1960 led to the first map of
the city being drawn. There were finds in the vicinity
of Punta Epitaffio at a depth of approximately 6 metres; a paved
road flanked with buildings which opened onto it (two decades
later, Emperor Claudius nymphaeum was found in one of these
buildings) and, continuing towards the sea, remains of other
structures reaching out into the sea by means of cemented jetties
(these are now known to have belonged to the ma-rine quarter of the
Pisonian villa). Additionally, approximately 400 metres from the
present coast, numerous concrete pillars were discovered; pillars
which confirmed the location of the ancient coastline. The
programme of surveying the area was unfortunately soon interrupted
due to a lack of funds.1969 marked two important occurrences for
the underwater archaeology and the protection of the area of
Baiae:The first was that, with the collapse of the front face of
Punta Epitaffio as a result of a sea storm, two statues of
significant quality were revealed. These were recognised as being
Odys-seus, holding a wineskin, and a companion; they were still in
place in the apse of a rectangu-lar building, now known to have
been the nymphaeum.The second was the agreement between Naples Head
Councillor, Alfonso De Francis, and the Director of the military
orphanage as located in Baia Castle to assign part of this area to
the Phlegraean Fields Archaeological Museum.Despite a great deal of
resonance these two occurrences did not succeed in attaining an
im-mediate following.The first underwater dig carried out by
archaeologists was only undertaken in 1980. This led to the
identification of Emperor Claudius nymphaeum and its extraordinary
sculptures com-plex.Finally, in 1984, the Supervisor of Baia Castle
produced and initiated a restoration project for functional
intervention within the area: a local archaeological office was
established along with a laboratory for the restoration of
archaeological finds. Thus, it was possible to com-mence with
initial restoration works and experiments on the sculptures
recovered from the site at the foot of Punta Epitaffio. In 1997 a
hall within the museum was prepared to exhibit the nymphaeum of
Emperor Claudius; whilst the display comes close to the original it
is not a true reconstruction.In the same period, the survey work in
the submerged city of Baiae which had been suspen-ded by Nino
Lamboglia was recommenced by G. Di Fraia, E. Scognamiglio and N.
Lombardi.According to their version of the archaeological map of
Baiae with the positioning of the bu-ildings, those situated on the
northern shore are better conserved as they were further away from
the trade routes. This pertains to the access channel to Baianus
Lacus (an area of water similar to a lake), to a thermal bath
complex 40 metres to the east of Punta Epitaffio and to the
Pisonian villa (a villa with a colonnaded entrance and splendid
floor decorations with a view of the street flanked with taverns
and the remains of fish breeding pools and the whar-fs).On the
southern side, in the area near the shipyards and the port, marine
traffic has had a devastating effect to the extent that
preservation of the ruins has been limited; whilst im-posing
harbour construction has been carried out perpendicular to the
great Roman wharf, some ancient pillars have been protected by
shuttering.To the south of Baia Castle, where the outer harbour
area can be found, the remains of fish
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and mussel breeding pools can be found. These have been well
preserved partially due to their greater depth.In 1987, the
archaeological relevance of the area was acknowledged and all
activities within the 500m zone off the Phlegraean coast which
impacted upon the area were prohibited.Between 1994 and 1998
specific decrees as prescribed by the Harbour Master Office were
issued to regulate the transit of commercial vessels.In 1998 the
Authority took the waters at the northern side into its
custody.Realisation of the first underwater tour took place in
1999.In 2000, due to serious damage caused by a ferry running
aground, all commercial vessels were prohibited from the site.On
7th August 2002 the underwater Archaeological Park of Baiae was
ratified as an agency to protect the marine area; management
thereof is presently the responsibility of the Archaeo-logical
Authority of Naples and Caserta.Since then, significant steps have
been taken regarding the protection and valorisation of the area.
There are still many problems to be resolved but the way forward is
becoming ever clearer.On 30th January 2007 an agreement was signed
between the Archaeological Authority of Naples and Caserta and the
association Assodiving Flegreum, represented by Centro Sub Campi
Flegrei, for the concession and regulation of diving activities
within the underwater Archaeological Park of Baiae.
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ProfileIt is his passion to capture the kaleidoscopic world of
the above and the oceans and bring it to life on visual and print -
from the majestic beauty of the wide wor-ld above the sea into the
vibrant coral reefs & intricate details of marine life. Not
only has photography & scuba diving kept Zul in touch with
nature, it has also built invaluable friendships among
photographers and scuba divers who share the same passion.
Zul devotes his time by conducting scuba diving, underwater
photography cour-ses and giving talk during scuba exhibition held
in this few countries like DRT Okinawa (Japan), TDEX (Thailand),
DEEP Indonesia (Indonesia), DRT Shanghai & DRT Hong Kong
(China) that brings the mesmerizing world of the deep sea to
scrutiny under his camera lens.
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FindingIn recent years Zul experiment a technique using
Luminance, he said with lumi-nance species become more vibrant if
apply correctly unlike strobe photography they are limited only by
single white light source with Luminance there is more than 25
shade of colours to choose from and is all up to the photographer
to imagine and create.
Luminance startedLuminance technique was discovered in 2004 by
experiment with torch light and it was shown on his front cover
publication title Deep Secret. Back in 2004 te-chnology for LED was
way to complicated to produce for underwater luminance however more
than 10 years has past since he last did luminance photography but
with current technology by INON producing LE700 & LF1000 series
of lights it is just creating a bridge for future creative
photography in luminance.
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How to shootWith luminance photographer shoot the same way as
using strobe just that lu-minance provide constant lighting and no
recycling time.
What will be an ideal lumensYou need minimum of 500 lumens but
700-1000 lumens work best.
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How to apply- Minimum of 3 lights Red, Green & Blue- How to
add colour on LE700 By using colour filter, photographic gel or
liquid glass paint - Where to place colour gel in between the torch
and Inon filter W50 black tape electrical tape needed to prevent
lights from escaping from the side of the filter.
Where to get the colourPhotographic gel come in 25 over
different shades to choose from and let your imagination run
wild.
Words and PicturesZul ng
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DFA is one of the worlds largest and fastest growing on-line
dive communities. DFA has been available for almost 2 years and
during this time has grown to over 180,000 members worldwide. DFA
is proud to have held the top downloaded sporting application
position in both the Google Play and iTunes App stores
simultaneously in a number of countries for several con-secutive
weeks. Dive Flag App have recently launched their web-interface
allowing divers without smart phones to also access the
application.
It is refreshing to see dive agencies like PADI and SSI
introducing electronic learning platforms as we have long awaited
for the industry to catch up to others and become digital. Dive
Flag App was originally developed as a platform for divers to
contact dive shops and also for divers to leave ratings and
reviews. Due to the large following and requests to build in more
functionality it has grown to include many more features, including
but not limited to: 1) A Dive Shop LocatorDivers can search a
database of over 10,000 dive shops based on a number of criteria.
The criteria includes bu-siness name, location, lessons on offer,
desired dive activities, or simply in a list of the top rated
schools in the surrounding 50 miles. This enables divers to select
a diver operator that meets their needs as a diver. 2) View dive
shop ratings and reviewsDivers can rate and read the ratings of
other divers against logbook entries and dive shop listings. This
is a
rating system based on six criteria including; friendliness,
professionalism, price, equipment, safety and . This rating system
completed by divers provides a non-biased way for divers to full
appreciate the strengths and weakness of each dive operator. This
again better helps divers to select the dive operator that meets
their needs as a diver. 3) View dive related specialsDive operators
are able to offer divers Dive Flag App specif ic specials. The
diver and operator are able to view and list spe-cials under gear,
trips or courses as the main categories. 4) Search for new dive
buddies:One of the most fundamental features to any social network
is the ability for parties to connect. Dive Flag App is about
facilita-ting the f low of communication between divers as well as
divers and dive shops. Divers can search for new buddies based on;
demographics, dive preference, or geographic criteria. Divers are
able to view each other s dive profiles and logbooks so as to
confidently the other s experience and compatibility as a buddy. 5)
Logbook Divers are able to easily record their logbook infor-mation
on the go. By logging dives electronically they are able to check
into dive stores, capture dive site satellite criteria and GPS
coordinates, sketch approximate dive routes, tag buddies in dive
logs saving them time, and view dive history on maps. If di-vers
are unable to do so remotely they can do so in the comfort of their
homes through Dive Flag Apps web interface too.6) Dive Flag App
ManualsDive Flag App keep a limited number of easy to browse diver
refresher manuals including hand signals, cpr and sting relief
procedures. This content is easily available and allows diver to
refresh their knowledge remotely and at their convenience. 7)
Connect with Facebook and Twitter (sharing of Dive Flag App based
activities)Dive Flag App allow divers to share their updates within
the Dive Flag App community as well as the dive community on other
platforms including Facebook and Twitter. This f lexibility
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updating simple and effective for any diver through a single
platform. 8) Create and check into dive sitesDivers are able to
create and check into dive sites. This allows divers to take
responsibility for listing the local dive spots and allows divers
independent of dive shops to dive recreationally. Soon this will
include suggested dive plans and other helpful information. 9) Blog
Entries and Online StoreThrough the application members can link
through to Dive Flag Apps blog entries and online store. This
gi-ves members access to product, course and operator reviews.
Furthermore we have industry professionals providing event updates,
industry news and stories. This is becoming increasingly popular
and a site you may wish to provide updates to also. 10) Download
Facebook albums to build diver profile, and so much more.In order
to conveniently transition divers to a dedica-ted diving network we
have allowed for the seamless transfer of profile specif ic
information from other pla-tforms. This takes the hassle out of
joining our commu-nity and makes easy work for getting started. 12)
Other FeaturesOver the last few months we have introduced an
un-derwater photography tutor (ScubaShooters.Net), You-Tube
channel, podcast channel (Scuba Path) and dive news daily (DND)
features. The application is geared at being a one stop shop for
everything diving (including rebreathers and freediving). For
further information please visit the following links: Website:
www.divef lagapp.com (currently going through a host
migration)iPhone download: http://tinyurl.com/d7zqbr7Android
download: http://tinyurl.com/ahjoo5gWeb-platform: www.divef
lagapp.com/divef lagapp Join Dive Flag App and f ind out why almost
280,000 members interact with it weekly!
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Henry Jager is a passionate underwater and wildlife photographer
with an incredible sense for an unexpected view on the subjects. He
describes his passion as follows:Our earths biodiversity is
amazing. Especially underwater, you find the craziest creatures as
well as the cutest, most colorful and most impressive ones. My
passion is to picture this fantastic underwaterworld as well as the
topside life and make the beauty of nature available to
everybody.Henry publishes in travel magazines as well as on scuba
di-ving related webpages and blogs. He writes about travel
de-stinations, photo courses and special photo techniques.Due to
his outstanding portfolio, Henry Jager has been awar-ded Grand
Master title by the worlds largest contest at
www.underwaterphotography.com in 2012. Besides that, he won a gold
medal at the world biggest photo salon for ge-neral photography,
the Trierenberger Super Circuit in 2011 category Nature with
Sardines Tornado. He was finalist at The Open 2012 and achieved
several recognitions by Na-tional Geographic Germany and
International.
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THE JUDGESRoland Bach is a CMAS*** Instruc-tor who owns and runs
the diveshop Marina Di-vers on the spanish Island Menorca
(Baleares). A diver since 1988, he startet to shot underwater in
1996 and changed to the digital system in 2008. Since that time he
has won several national and international photo competitions and
achieved top rankings. Roland is interested in everything that
lives underwater but his special interest goes to the Biology of
Scyphozoa and Ctenophora. No surprise that especially his Medusa
Art Gallery is widely published in many trade magazines around the
world.
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Portovenere, a small town in Linguria (Italy) overlooking the sea.
I am a ship designer for a major Italian company. In 2007 I
obtained my first PADI brevet, and in 2009 I started underwater
photography using a compact camera. In March 2010 I bought my first
DSLR camera, a Canon 1000D using a Nimar housing and Inon flashes.
Most of my diving is done in the Mediterranean Sea considering my
close proximity, though I try to take at least one trip a year.
Since the purcha-se of my DSLR I have only been able to visit the
Philippines, Tulamben and Komodo with Arenui, but I am planning two
trips which I intend to go on later in the year which will be
devoted to underwater photography. I had travelled to the Maldives
and the Red Sea prior to my interest in underwater photography and
long to go back to these places with my ca-mera, which has become
my inseparable travel companion. At today i use a Nikon D600 camera
with the Nikon 105 mm micro VR - which is my favourite lens - and
for wide angle
photos a Sigma 15 mm fisheye.I see the underwa-ter photograpy as
a powerful medium of communication through which I can share with
the rest of the world what my eyes have seen for a while, a way to
let others know a little part of me ...
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Jeffrey de Guzman was certified as a NAUI open water diver in
1986. In May 2006, Jeffrey made his first venture into u/w
photography with a Canon S80 compact came-ra. He is currently using
a Nikon D300. Examples of his work have appeared in major
publications, such as Australasia Scuba Diver Magazine, the Padi
Project Aware Website, Padi Newsletters, Neville Colemans
Nudibranch Encyclopedia, Terry Gosliner - Indo Pacific Nudibranchs
and Sea Slugs, Paul Humann - Reef Creature Identi-fication Tropical
Pacific Newsweek, the National Geographic Daily Dozen, National
Geographic Magazine, National Geographic Website and three Canon
Photo of the Month. Jeffrey was chosen as the Featured Photographer
at Scu-badivng.com for the month of February 2008, and as the Inon
Featured Photographer for July 2008.In 2009, Jeff place won 2nd
place (Super Macro Traditional) in Our World Underwater. 1st place
in Macro Category Scuba Diver Australasia TTL. 1st Place Popular
Photography Magazine.In 2010, Jeff place 2nd in Our World
Underwa-ter (Macro Unrestricted), 3rd place Macro in British
Underwater Image Festival, 2nd Place in Underwater Festival, Highly
Honored Photo-grapher in Natures Best Ocean Views, 2nd Place in
Macro Scuba Diving Magazine, 2nd Place Ma-cro in Ocean Art.In 2011,
Jeff place 1st in the Hong Kong Dive Re-sort Travel Show and
achieved his life long dre-am of being published in National
Geographic Magazine (December 2011 issue).In 2012, Jeff received
word that National Geo-graphic will use one of his images in a new
book called Life in Colors.Award with a Silver Medal in Our World
Un-derwater2012 in Macro Unrestricted.After a brief hiatus due to
the passing of his pa-rents Jeff is back with a vengeance in
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2 place : AJIEX DHARMASunbathing doto
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4 place : MATT KRUMINSPortrait of a nudibranch
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Behind the shot:DENNIS CORPUZScientific naMe: coStaSiella
kuroSHiMaedeScription: occaSionally tHiS nudibran-cH are Super
SMall approxiMately 2-4MM in SiZe. to be able to pHotograpH tHiS
tiny nudibrancH a Super Macro lenS iS ne-eded pluS a little
patience and Hardwork.equipMent uSed: powerSHot canon g15, Meikon
caSeaquako Super Macro lenSSingle inon S-2000iSo 80, f/7.1,
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March - Shrimps
April - Couples & Mating
May - Color Red
June - Marine Ambient
July - Schools and Shoals
August - Seahorses
September - Night Dive
October - Wrecks
November - Fish or Marine animal por-trait
December - Sharks, Rays , Big fishes and Mammals
2015 CONTEST LIST
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We at Scubashooters are pleased to present the
Nudibranch of the week contest.
Each week the judges will select the best Nudibranch photo
submitted to Scubashooters.net. The image will be featured on the
front page of the site with a little background about the shot and
the profile of the photographer. And will be in-cluded in the Nudi
Hall of Fame page.
----At the end of the year---- 52 weeks in a year
52 Nudibranch of the week will BATTLE to win...
NUDIBRANCH OF THE YEAR AWARD.
A secondary award will also be given to the Nudibranch pho-to
which attains the greatest number of votes. To win the title
Nudibranch Peoples Choice Award.
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Rovinj old city on Istra coast line, Croatia, they like to say
its one of the most romantic cities on Mediterranean, all I can say
on that, they didnt exaggera-te. Town is beautiful, situated on
small rocky peninsula, whe-re houses are crowded and streets are
narrow but view on sea is great, especially in the evening when sun
falls in the sea. Rovinj as town stan-ding there for centuries and
all those time his island and sea around were collecting many
secrets. Today those secrets are under the sea and you can see
them, if you dare enough to go under, to go deep, to explore and to
feel, to feel the difference. In this new, undi-scovered experience
we offer you extra elegance choice of providing to your individual
escort, best equipment, our di-ving boat Puffer or speed boat,
maximum safety through scu-ba diving with instructor gui-ding.
Individual escort on the most famous Croatian Wreck Baron Gautsch,
or through the system of the caves on Island Bagnole, or to go down
on reef Porer 6 nautical miles on the open sea. From Rovinj you
come to us by regular boat line which drives each hour, we are
happy to see you.
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Our diving center is situated in the hotel Istra on Read island,
near city of Rovinj. Every day we offer scuba diving trips with one
or two dives. Beside the captain on the boat is always one of our
dive-guides, who will explain detailed briefing of the dive site
and the boat. For a comfortable, quick and safe journey to the dive
sites we have the dive boat Puffer. and additional in our offer is
fast boat from hotel istra. In our diving center are tree memebers
of the stuff, girl on the welcome desk, instructor and dive
guide.Diving boat Puffer is 11 m long and 3.5 m wide and it has 110
hp engine, average speed 7nm/ph. It is specially prepared for dive
trips and offer space for up to 12 divers. On the boat is cabin for
6 people, toilet, sun deck in front and a big diving platform at
the back, provide the divers with comfort and a relaxed preparation
for the dive. Puffer is equip-ped with depth-finder, GPS satellite
navigation, UHF-radio, 1 oxygen supply emergency first aid kit.
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NO PANIC!WERE DIVERS
Experimenting anxiety, even only for a short period, is never
pleasant. Even more when it is accompanied by its bad brother,
panic, and even more when it is not experienced on land, but
underwa-ter. The reason why healthy subjects without a history or
family history of anxiety or panic suddenly suffer from panic
attacks underwater remains, to date, unknown. However, it is
important to try to understand its mechanisms. Pa-nic, in fact,
although harmless on its na-ture, may be the most common cause of
accidents among divers; as James Jones wrote in his novel Go to the
Widowma-ker: The panic was the greatest danger, the enemy, the only
danger that there was in diving.
Although outside the scope of fiction, the experts in panic in
diving Arthur Ba-chrach and Glen Egstrom, authors of the essay
Stress and Performance in Diving, agree: Most of us in diving
research believe that panic is the overwhelming cause of the
majority of injuries and fatalities in diving. Any experienced
di-vemaster or instructor can confirm the-se statements. That
should not make us think that panic is an always lurking enemy,
ready to strike anyone regardless of age, experience, sex or breed:
thought dangerous, panic is usually preventable.A recent study
(Colvard et al., 2000) exa-mined more than 12,000 divers who had
experienced panic while diving with the aim to find out the
generating reasons. The results were surprising. Responden-ts were
offered a list of 43 possible cau-ses of panic, such as sharks,
darkness, air hunger and so on. The options were
divided into three categories, relating to diving conditions,
equipment problems, physical and/ or psychological problems. The
divers were asked to assess which of these threats has been present
du-ring the panic attacks. Well, among all 43 possible threats, the
three most se-lected boxes in each category were the last ones:
Other. In short, the events triggering the panic reactions are not
among objective causes of a problem of a justified situational
anxiety. In most ca-ses, the triggering reason was something
trivial or routine, something that no one would see as a reason to
panic in another moment.Reading DANs annual reports on acci-dents
and fatalities in diving, it evident that an astonishing number of
dives could have been concluded easily if the diver had followed
the bases of basic trai-ning. Just think of the rule Do not hold
your breath and not go up too fast, of how many times have we read,
studied, taught, practiced it, thinking that never and ever we
would do such an error. Yet, anyone can be in panic, a panic attack
is as voluntary as a heart attack. The panic is not cowardice, it
is not lack of courage, but an involuntary reaction to a massive
secretion of adrenaline into the blood-stream by order of the
sympathetic ner-vous system, which, facing a huge threat, causes
the heart rate, body temperature and blood sugar quickly and
dramatical-ly rise. Butterflies start flying in your stomach or a
sense of nausea appears. You start sweating. Skin becomes red or
pale. Your breath becomes faster, less deep and dyspnoeic (or
irregular). You experience the phenomenon known as
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perceptual narrowing, during which the field of vision lost can
restrict peri-pheral vision, achieving an effect similar to looking
at the world through a tube.The worst thing is that you feel more
and more agitated and you cannot think cle-arly. It follows that
your attention beco-mes focused on the problem, so that the right
solution for that situation seems to fade away and no longer exist.
With a real panic attack in progress, there is very little that the
rational part of the brain can do to stop it quickly, be cause the
body takes several minutes to ab-sorb the adrenalin, and the risk
to take the wrong actions increases. The good news is that despite
the mystery that surrounds it, panic can almost always be
prevented. It is showed by a clue, at first sight insignificant,
reported in the above-mentioned study. Although the results
provided by divers on the plausi-ble causes of their panic attacks
seemed unrelated and apparently so scattered that it was impossible
to draw a logical, statistical or epidemiological conclusion, all
tended to agree that they had started to hyperventilate just before
the panic attack began. It is worth mentioning that
hyperventilation (rapid breathing, shal-low, irregular) is a
classic sign of anxiety.Anxiety is an accumulation of daily stress
that goes as far as the generation point of an unconscious fear of
not being able to solve problems; from this arises a feeling of
powerlessness which amplifies the uncertainty, worry, fatigue,
frustra-tion and fear that are still part of every-day life. It is
therefore likely that this is what happens to the diver who, like
most of us, is stressed even before ente-ring the water. There may
be memories of a difficult or frightening dive - the di-ver is
concerned about this. Perhaps the diving conditions are unusually
difficult. Or maybe he went to bed late the night before, found
traffic in the morning and had to run to catch up with the diving
boat. Or he cannot get that damn office
problem out of his head. Or the instruc-tor, who then should
change method, is getting him nervous, taunting him, insul-ting
him. Or the students are particularly unruly and refuse to follow
directives.At the time when he enters the water, the diver is
troubled, angry, less able to react in a consistent and ready way:
so he can easily be the object of fear. Bre-athing is more
difficult than normal, he uses the BC more than usual, and when
something unexpected happens, even harmless (like the mask that
comes off or the fin that remains entangled) he be-gins to
hyperventilate, but the air seems never enough. The feeling of air
hunger and the risk of suffocation increase. Pa-nic is at hand. Of
course one should not assume that all divers who remain stuck in
morning traffic will have a panic at-tack: people, as human beings
different from one another and unique, deal with stress and
everyday worries in different ways. Some are more vulnerable than
others to stress and are therefore more vulnerable to panic. Yet no
one, as men-tioned, is immune to panic, because our
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individual threshold of panic may also change from day to
day.Although it may seem scary, this should reassure the reader
that a panic attack is rarely sudden during a dive - in most cases,
stress has been working for hours and sometimes even days. At the
end the straw breaks the camel and the diver fe-els overwhelmed:
the fear of failure trig-gers panic. Think of a juggler with three
plates in the air, then four, then five. Finally, one more element
is too many, and the exhibition ends with a shower of shards of
pottery and an explosion. The cause of loss of control is not the
sixth plate in itself, but simply having too many plates in the
air. Similarly, anything can trigger panic and make it explode, but
it can easily be prevented by removing some plates, or reducing
stress and psychological pressure when we are under water and
refusing to take care of all unnecessary burdens and
re-sponsibilities that not compete.One of the best ways to reduce
and avoid stress is to establish a series of breaks in the day of
the dive: rest, focus on the situation and think about what you are
going to do next. If you are stres-sed when you get at the meeting
point, once parked, possibly before moving the equipment, take a
break for a minute or two and relax. When the equipment is on
board, but before you get dressed, take a break. When you are in
the water, but before you dive, break. And so on throu-ghout the
dive. There are at least three good reasons why frequent breaks
redu-ce stress and help to prevent panic. First, regular breaks
reduce fatigue; rest pro-motes the lowering of the level of
adre-naline, the slowing of the heartbeat, a slower and deeper
breathing, and the le-vel of carbon dioxide in solution in blood
turns to normal.Secondly, the breaks are a chance to enjoy a moment
of mental rest and wi-thout stress to slow the rush of the even-ts
with which we are obliged to keep up, paying then more attention to
new needs
that arise. Finally, frequent breaks are an opportunity to think
about the next task and how to do it. The next step is to dress up?
Before you jump in the suit, take a break and mentally organize the
steps to follow, one after the other, mentally scroll the list of
requirements. Try to vi-sualise the problems that can occur and
their solutions: the psychology of sport, has proved that
visualisation is a power-ful weapon against anxiety, stress and
panic.Breaks may also be an opportunity to keep your breathing
under control. Bre-athing with the chest wall, and not with
diaphragm, is an intensive energy action because we use the wrong
muscles. Bre-athing with the diaphragm is rather the natural way of
breathing, induces a sta-te of relaxation and is fundamental to
keep breathing under control: hyperven-tilation is in fact a well
known cause of anxiety and panic. In conclusion, when you do not
feel good its better not to dive. When you have a feeling of nausea
and just do not want to dive for some reason you cannot identify,
it is better not to. Do not let peer pressure push you beyond your
limits because you would begin your dive already stressed and more
su-sceptible to panic. If anyone does not un-derstand and insists
in making you feel embarrassed, accusing a sudden otalgy or
pretending to fail in compensating is always a great escape!
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2014 OCEAN ART UW PHOTO CONTESTWINNERS ANNOUNCED
The prestigious Ocean Art Underwater Photo Competition,
organized by the Underwater Photography Guide, has announced the
2014 winners. This years Ocean Art Competition attracted a very
high caliber of photos, representing entrants from over 50
countries.Over $70,000 of prizes will be awarded to 60 underwater
photographers, highlighted by an 11-day Indonesia liveaboard trip
on the SMY Ondina, a 7-night dive package at Paradise Taveuni
Resort in Fiji, a 7-night Maldives liveaboard trip on the Manthiri,
a 7-night Solomon Islands liveaboard trip on the Bilikiki, a
10-night dive package at Lissenung Dive Resort in Papua New Guinea
and a variety of gift certificates from Bluewater Photo. Premium
prizes are provided by Villa Markisa (Bali), the Discovery Fleet
(Tubbataha), Emperor Divers (Mal-dives), VoliVoli (Fiji),
Atmosphere (Philippines), Kosrae Nautilus Resort (Micronesia),
Atlantis Philippines, Wananavu (Fiji), Palau Dive Adventures, Mike
Ball Dive Expeditions (Australia), Alor Divers (Indonesia), Manta
Ray Bay (Yap), El Galleon (Philippines), Maluku Divers
(Indo-nesia), Julianas Hotel & Sea Saba Dive Center
(Caribbean), Eco Divers Resort Lembeh, Blackbeards Cruises
(Bahamas), Scuba Seraya (Bali) and Bluewater Travel.Ocean Art 2014
judges included prestigious underwater photographers Tony Wu,
Martin Edge, Marty Snyderman and Scott Gietler.There are at least 4
winners in each of the 12 categories, including Wide-Angle, Macro,
Por-trait, Behavior, Novice, Nudibranchs, Super Macro, Divers &
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compact camera categories.The Best of Show was a stunning
wide-angle photo shot from behind a breaking wave by Ray Collins at
Kirra Beach, Australia. Other outstanding images include some
out-of-this-world fish and marine life shots, rarely seen
underwater behavior, iridescent shrimp, mo-dels in pools, smiling
turtles, vibrantly colored squid and some dramatic black and white
moments. Thousands of entries were viewed by the judges before the
final set of amazing images were selected and deemed some of the
best underwater photos in the world.The quality of image
submissions was incredible, making judging very difficult but
ensu-ring the prestige of the Ocean Art Competition. Bluewater
Photo and Travel owner and Un-derwater Photography Guide publisher,
Scott Gietler said, The caliber of photos in Ocean Art this year
was amazing, and the judges had to make some very difficult
decisions when evaluating photos in the contest. The winning photos
were submitted from oceans and fre-shwater around the world by many
talented underwater photographers. Congratulations to all the
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Best of Show Ray CollinsWide-Angle 1st Place: Ray Collins 2nd
Place: Gang Song 3rd Place: Shane Gross 4th Place: Montse Grillo
5th Place: Davide Lopresti HM: Alejandro Prieto HM: Eiko Jones HM:
David SalvatoriMacro 1st Place: Ron Watkins 2nd Place: Uwe Schmolke
3rd Place: Marchione Giacomo 4th Place: Anthony Berberian 5th
Place: Digant Desai HM: Annika Persson HM: Filip StaesColdwater 1st
Place: Lill Haugen 2nd Place: David Salvatori 3rd Place: Nirupam
Nigam 4th Place: Kaido Haagen
HM: Michael Weberberger HM: Gang SongPortrait 1st Place: Nonna
Pokras 2nd Place: Mario Odorisio 3rd Place: Steven Kovacs 4th
Place: Christine Shepard 5th Place: Lill Haugen HM: Uwe Schmolke
HM: David Salvatori HM: Luc RoomanMarine Life Behavior 1st Place:
Borut Furlan 2nd Place: Ilian Ben Tov 3rd Place: Steven Kovacs 4th
Place: Jerry Tang HM: Roland Bach HM: Steven KovacsNovice dSLR 1st
Place: Yatwai So 2nd Place: Carolyn Wang 3rd Place: Collin Wu 4th
Place: Renee Capozzola HM: Yatwai So
HM: Renee CapozzolaCompact Macro 1st Place: Giacomo Gio-vannini
2nd Place: Kiyoung Jang 3rd Place: Fabio Galbiati 4th Place:
Elisabeth Lau-werys HM: Dusan Zencak HM: Chandy de WitCompact
Marine Life Behavior 1st Place: Jack Bertho-mier 2nd Place: Jack
Berthomier 3rd Place: Alexander Bublitz 4th Place: Igor Pereverzev
HM: Michal RossCompact Wide-Angle 1st Place: Arek Mszyca 2nd Place:
Marc Casanovas 3rd Place: Stephen Holinski 4th Place: Stephen
Holinski HM: Marc Casanovas
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Nudibranchs 1st Place: Eduardo Acevedo Fernandez 2nd Place:
Jackie Hildering 3rd Place: Diana Paboojian 4th Place: Luc Rooman
HM: Yatwai So HM: Yury IvanovSuper Macro 1st Place: Filippo Borghi
2nd Place: Raffaele Livornese 3rd Place: Qing Lin 4th Place: Robert
Roy HM: Jeffrey de GuzmanDivers/ Fashion 1st Place: Lucie Drlikova
2nd Place: Steffen Binke 3rd Place: Nina Baxa 4th Place: Jim Catlin
HM: Massimo Giorgetta HM: Rui Guerra
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UWPC is the largest underwater photo challenge in Asia Pacific,
hosted by the Diving and Resort Travel Expo (DRT Show) and EZDIVE
magazine. UWPC is open to entrants of all skill levels.
Asia Pacific UW Photo Challenge (UWPC) aims at finding e