Scubashooters net e mag issue n37 mar 2018 by Scubashooters Underwater Photography

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N°37

M A R 2018

Portfolio by Scott “Gutsy” Tuason

Books by Rico Besserdich

Travels by P. Bondaschi

Monthly Contest

Review

Deep Visions 2018

This is Where I Belong

Claudio Ceresi wins “Clownfishes”

- Song Of Silence Review by M. Lawrence Nimar D7500 Nikon D7500 Housing

Puerto Galera Part Two

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Dear friends, this monthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s editorial is directed to a double audience: the scubashooters.net followers and the wikiscience competition (wikisciencecompetition.org) followers too! Scubashooters.net and wikiscience competition have started what we can call a cooperation few months ago. Wikiscience competition is an emerging photo contest organized worldwide among the wikimedia community. The aim of this contest is to provide the scientific images that volunteers, students and researchers produce during their daily activities as attention grabbers towards the general public with an educational purpose... this is exactly the very same idea we are developing here at Scubashooters.net; in our case using UW images to educate and increase consciousness of the general public towards the fragility of the Ocean. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not a case that Wikiscience competition is thinking for future editions to create new categories than the current ones www.wikisciencecompetition.org/image-categories, including for example something more aimed at wildlife photography. With a growing number of submissions finding more qualified jurors and uploaders is a key target for WSC organizers. For this reason Scubashooters.net has been chosen as partner by Wikiscience competition and we are very proud of that. Stay tuned for more! Check finalists @ https://commons.wikimedia. org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Science_Competition_2017/Winners in country such as Italy and the Philippines show a great contribution for UW photographers and marine biology researchers and we will present them in a future article. Marino Palla Owner and Founder Scubashooters Network

Cover image by: Scott Tuason

CONTENTS March 2018 3

EDITORIAL by Marino Palla

CONTEST - DEEP VISIONS 2018 - Category and Prizes

12 TRAVELS Puerto Galera - Part Two by Paolo Bondaschi

BOOKS Song Of Silence - a book about water by Rico Besserdich Review by Michael Lawrence

CONTEST - DEEP VISIONS 2018 - The Judges

CONTEST - DEEP VISIONS 2018 - Prizes

MARINE BIOLOGY: The Power Of The Invisible by Sandro Carniel 4

MONTHLY CONTEST “Clownfishes”: the winners

PORTFOLIO: Scott “Gutsy” Tuason This is where I belong

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TRAVELS Puerto Galera A Macro Paradise - part two Words and Pictures

Paolo Bondaschi

The Canyons are the adrenaline junkieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sites of choice. During times of strong currents, boasting a thrilling ride with reststops in the naturally formed bowls while you watch all this different amazing schools of trevally, tuna, and sometimes barracuda hang effortlessly in the current.

The Alma Jane wreck is a favorite among wreck enthusiasts, is easily accessible, and is home of several giant frogfish, big schools of batfish, and small tropical fish. Of course, no trip is complete without a two-dive trip to Verde Island. Large schools of big fish, monstrous sea fans, walls and stunning reefs are the rule here and warrant at least the effort of the long journey. Most of the other sites are lovely, and there is never a shortage of interesting things to see alike since they have a lot to offer like the varied species of soft corals, gorgonians, crinoids, colorful sponge and tunicates, crustaceans and shrimps. 12

But overall I think Puerto Galera is pre-eminently a macro destination, so if you are macro lover and you want to experience fantastic macro dives - you are in the right spot here!!! “Muck” dive sites like Secret Bay and Giant Clams are home to a huge array of macro critters, exceptional encounters with Wunderpus (Wunderpus photogenicus) and Flamboyant cuttlefish (Metasepia pfefferi), Hairy frogfish (Antennarius striatus) and Mimic octopus (Thaumoctopus mimicus), Ornate ghost pipefish (Solenostomus paradoxus) Seahorses and strange Nudibranchs of various types and size. In this area you can find also one of the most venomous creatures in the oceans is the Blue-ringed octopus (Hapalochlaena lunulata) and the close relative Mototi octopus (Amphioctopus siamensis) and one of the most beautiful shrimp, Harlequin shrimp (Hymenocera elegans).Another unmissable “muck” dive site is Montani beach, in shallow water you can spot amazing creatures like Hairy shrimp (Phycocaris simulans), Xenia shrimp (Alcyonohippolyte commensalis), Xenia swimming crab (Caphyra sp.), Painted frogfish (Antennarius pictus), Warty frogfish (Antennarius maculatus), Tiger shrimps (Phyllognatia ceratophthalmus); on this site it is common to come across a colony 16

of Clown fish, of course with their own eggs. The ideal spot for a relaxing night dive. In front of Sabang Bay there are other noteworthy dive sites for macro photography; Sabang west where, with the right dive guide you will see; Paddle-flap scorpion fish (Rhinopias Eschmeyeri) and Weedy scorpion fish (Rhinopias Frondosa), Skeleton shrimp (Caprella sp.), Saw blade shrimp (Tozeuma sp), Emperor shrimp (Zenopontonia rex) on top of the sea cucumber and Crinoid squat lobster (Allogalathea elegans), while in Sabang point is assured to find pygmy seahorse (Hippocampus bargibanti) pink and yellow color. Moving to south-west of the promontory you can reach other great dive sites for macro photography, Sinandigan wall a sloping reef called nudibranchsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; city, Coral cove a mixture of sand and stones rubble, The Boulders with its lunar landscape and plenty of whip corals, and Palangan point where there are two different areas, the first one with sand bottom and soft corals, right habitat for small soft coral porcelain crab (Lissoporcellana sp.) and the other one with a small coral wall and stones rubble. 17

The most common encounters at the dive sites mentioned above can be Dragon shrimp (Miropandalus hardingi), Humpback soft coral shrimp (Alcyonohippolyte dossena), Xeno crab (Xenocarcinus tuberculatus) on a whip coral, small cuttlefish, beautiful crinoids with their commensal shrimps inside, Candy crab (Hoplophrys oatesi), pair of Coleman shrimp (Periclimenes colemani) on a fire urchin, Hairy pigmy yellow gobies (Paragobiodon xanthosoma), and Mouth brooding Ring-tailed cardinal fish (Ostorhinchus aureus) which incubates eggs in the mouth.

In any dive sites suitable for macro photography there is the certainty to find the most popular invertebrate subject amongst macro photographers, which has various colors, shapes and size the “nudibranchs”.

However, I would like to recommend, if you love the spirit of research and to venture out for a never visited place: the result could give you enormous positive surprises. Talk to your guides and tell them what you are looking for, give them your wish list. Their preparation will surprise you. For sure you will have a great chance of completing it. This is also the right time and situation to try some shooting making use of instruments such as the snoot, but also of a special camera techniques like backlighting, dark background and bokeh. ... hunters from all over the world come to the Philippines looking for Spanish galleons. In the “Port of Galleons” the real treasure of the underwater world can be seen by anyone, with underwater equipment and of course with a camera. 20

HOW TO GET TO PUERTO GALERA Manila can be reached from Europe with several airlines. From Manila about 2 hours by car / bus to the port of Batangas City from which you embark on typical Philippine rocky boats for Puerto Galera Muelle, Sabang Beach and White Beach (about 60 minutes), or you can board a ferry for Balatero Pier (about 85 minutes). Another solution to reach Puerto Galera is to take the fast hydrofoil to Calapan (90 minutes), which also travels with the sea slightly moved, from Calapan takes the classic jeepney to Puerto Galera, travel lenght depends a lot on the sea and road conditions (roughly 2 hours and a half to three hours and a half the total trip from Batangas). If you are late the ideal transfer is in seaplane, from Manila to Puerto Galera, surely the fastest but probably the not cheapest route.

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SONG OF SILENCE Book About Water by Rico Besserdich

Book Review by Michael Lawrence Generally speaking, underwater photography falls into several well-defined categories. Wide-angle reef scenics with or without divers, over-under images, fish portraits, macro and super macro. With his new book, Song of Silence, Rico Besserdich shatters that construct. While skilled in all of the standard approaches to underwater imaging, Rico has chosen to focus on the essential, elemental spirit of water and its boundless faces. When was the last time you looked at water? No, not the surface, not the waves, not the way it laps at a shoreline, runs through a valley or flows over the edge of a cliff. When was the last time you looked into its beating heart? Rico has. His images bring out the spirit, shape and form of water in the most unexpected manner. They evoke the beauty of a snowflake in the midst of formation, both geometric and flexible. Every droplet, each splash, all are individual entities, distinct yet fleeting moments never to be repeated. Some of these images were created in the wild while others were found flowing from his faucet, dripping from roofs or â&#x20AC;Ś well, wherever water may be found. In his search for the moment, Rico is most certainly less than judgmental, all wet volunteer are gladly welcomed into the family of images. 26

Song of Silence is not just your standard photo volume with pretty pictures showing the form and beauty of water, far from it. Nearly every image is accompanied by notes from individuals from around the planet. In these pages, Nobel Peace Prize winners rub shoulders with farmers and schoolchildren. These citizens of Planet Earth range from the humblest to the most exalted. The commonality? Water. Water is one of the single threads uniting every form of life. It seems that citizens of our planet have much to say. Some are focused on conservation, some express awe at its beauty while others express concern over the fragility and precarious position we face premised upon our access to clean, viable drinking water. My favorite quote, the most innocent and by far the most succinct comment, comes from seven-year old Sezin in the UK. When asked her impression, she replied, ‘It was wet!’. Contrast that with the statement of farmer Mary Wayua Mwanzia of Kitui, Kenya who has to walk hours each day to acquire water. ‘I wish I had a donkey to help me out.’ 27

The written contributions peppered throughout the book come from individuals with an extraordinary variety of backgrounds. Artists and scientists, religious leaders, politicians and philosophers, children and mothers. All acknowledge water as the central element of their lives, of our lives, all speak of it with great respect.

Song of Silence has no political agenda. It is simply a presentation of our world of water from small rivulets to broad streams, rivers, lakes and oceans. It portrays its current reality and its potential future along with an accurate representation of the ineffable beauty of this liquid. It is one of the most honest books I have ever found. 30

The groundbreaking photography is nothing short of superb. The messages contained within it are no less than insightful. A beautiful piece of work, highly recommended.

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Roland Bach is a german CMAS 3Star instructor who owns a Dive Club “Marina Divers” on the spanish island Menorca (Balearics). A diver since 1988 with over 10.000 dives, started with serious underwater photography in 2008. From that time on he has been placed in many national and international competitiond. Roland is in love with the landscape (caverns and caves) of the Mediterranean sea. But his special interest is with jellyfish and ctenophores. While everybody else gets out of the sea because of too many jellyfish, Roland is getting ready for an underwater shooting session with his favourite subjects. Especially his “Jelly Art” shots are worldwide published.

Beth Barklage Watson

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Bethâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s love for photography began years ago when she received her first gigiral camera. The concept of capturing, editing and printing an image intrigued her. It was not until she learned to dive and took a camera underwater that her true passion was born. The underwater world is fascinating to her and she enjoys the challenge of photographing wide-angle reefs and wrecks but also has a deep adoration for the tiniest creatures in the sea. Her goal is to capture images that are unique, creative and thought provoking, hoping to raise awareness to the importance of conserving and preserving the health and vitality of our ocean environment.

Fabio Iardino

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Fabio Iardino was born in Udine (Italy) in 1971. Starts to approach to diving in 1983 and in 1992 obtained the first CMAS underwater certificate. Over the years he became CMAS instructor and underwater TRIMIX instructor. He has always been passionate about photography. He partecipated writing “Underwater digital photography” and “Trimix Manual 62”. In 2009 writes “The two faces of a pearl of Adriatic” dedicated to the Dalmatian island of Vis. From 1993 to present, he dived and photographed all around the world. Since 2006 he partecipates in contests and competitions of underwater photography. On September 2015 he won the Italian Championship of UW Photography on Team Competition.

Henry Jager

Head Of Jury

Henry Jager is a passionate underwater, nature and experimental photographer with an incredible sense for an unexpecred view on the subjects. His pictures are appreciated around the Globe and have been exhibited nationally and internationally. National Geographic and many others have awarded Henry’s pictures. Henry publishes in travel and dive magazines as well as on scuba diving related webpages and blogs. He wites tutorials, critics about travel destinations, photo courses and about special photo techniques. “My passion is to picture this fantastic underwater world as well as the topside life and amaze the people with the beauty of nature. Only what you know and love, you are willing to protect”.

Davide Lopresti

Jury Member

Davide Lopresti was born in 1980 in Fezzano, a small town near Portovenere (La Spezia) and it will be the proximity to the sea and to the water that will mark also in the sports of youth practicing swimming and water polo for many years. The first dive certificate arrives in 2007 collecting dives in quick succession, and in 2009 began his career as an underwater photographer estabilishing itself in the early years in the most important national and international competitions with images of great effect and published in major magazines and underwater naturalistic. Davide currently shooting with Nikon D600 in Nimar housing and Inon stobes. Its favorites lenses are the Sigma 15mm fisheye and his inseparable Nikon 105 mm VR Micro.

Isabella Maffei

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Born in Varese (Italy) in 1973, where she still lives, Isabella always liked to swim and she made her first dive with mask and snorkel when she was 16 years old. A true passion por the ocean drove her to become a scuba instructor and manage her dive center “Deep Avenue”, in Mendrisio (in the Italian side of Switzerland). She started to take underwater photos to her scuba diving students as first tangible results of a new adventure. However, this initial business approach devolved soon into a true deep genuine passion. “My way to take underwater photography is my way to communicate using an universal visual language, it comes from my strong ambition to tell, to describe without words the marine underwater perfection. I fancy the idea to shoot dynamic pictures in order to draw the observer inside the image. I love so much and I cannot consider anymore a picture as a static bi-dimensional image... In such trend, I want to develop my future experimentation. I do know is hard, in photography nothing can be improvised and rules, for a perfect canonic composition, must be respected. However, with no challenges, there is not gain “.

Ivana Orlovic

Jury Member

Since ten years, Ivana has been dedicated to underwater photography. Everything started with disposable underwater camera, followed by compact cameras in underwater housings and finally, now in recent years, with DSLRs. Today Ivana is using Nikon D7000 in Subal housing. Her specialities are underwater selfies with inhabitants of underwater world and her great split images. Her commitment and exceptional quality were recognized by American Underwater Products Company wich promote Ivana as their Oceanic Worldwide Ambassador since January 2015. “After all these years that I spent under the surface, I can’t imagine my dive without a camera. I think that underwater photography is the most powerful way to promote this amazing world to common people, non-divers. I am certain that after they see my photographs that they will be more eager to come with us in our new adventures that lay beneath the surface of the water”.

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“Oceani – il futuro scritto nell’acqua” (Hoepli Edizioni) is a book based on real “sea stories”, inspired by the work of an oceanographer. A pleasant reading thought for the general readers, where scientific facts are “hidden” behind amusing sea stories.

MARINE BIOLOGY The Power Of The Invisible The Secrets Of Ocean Circulation Words and Pictures

Sandro Carniel

Were it possible for you to ride a marine water parcel now in any place of the Oceans, it would take just a little patience to come back to the same position: more than 1,000 years. Sure enough, ocean waters are continuosly moving: winds are stirring waters, tides are periodically and ceaselessly lifting and dropping them.

Although most common ocean currents are dictated by continuous two-way interactions with the atmosphere, slow, large-scale movements of the oceans are due to â&#x20AC;&#x153;invisibleâ&#x20AC;? internal movements triggered by differences in temperature and salinity.

However, the main engine of large, global currents is hidden into the magic of an invisible mechanism. It deals with the delicate interplay of temperature and salinity, that together determine the water density, its “weight”. Waters get denser when they are cold and salty, lighter if they are warm and fresh. When denser (and heavier) than the surrounding ones, waters start sinking along the vertical to the ocean floor, and the “invisible” magic appears… more water moves in to replace the gone one, creating a current. The new water then also gets colder or saltier and sinks, continuing the cycle and igniting a process that drives water currents around the globe. Like a “conveyour belt”. Variations in temperature (thermo) and salinity (haline) are the origin of this pic; and this is why water movements driven by density differences are also known as thermohaline circulation (THC).

Sketch of the thermo-haline circulation, a.k.a. “covenyor belt”. This circulation is mantained by gradients of temperature and salinity. It is also thanks to such a global circulation that many areas within North Europe experience a milder climate if compared to that of northern American regions located at the same latitude.

How does this matter? With a flow that is more than 16 times that of all rivers discharge combined together, this global “conveyor belt” (see again last pic) is crucial to several aspects: it triggers and influences the climate of the globe, it removes CO2 from the atmosphere sucking it into the sea, it enriches deep waters with oxygen, it redistributes water properties through mixing down to the deep layers, including nutrients, enabling and ultimately supporting all forms of life. But the meandering dynamics of the global THC are heavily interconnected and have to be casted within the incredibly complex “climate system”: it is not only ocean, but also atmosphere, ice, biosphere and, of course, the policy choices that we will be taking inthe next decades. Because in a context of global warming linked to man-made greenhouse gases emissions, such as CO2 and methane, ocean waters are getting warmer and huge amount of ice melt into the water.

Because of global warming, larger and larger volumes of ice in the polar oceans are melting, affecting both biodiversity and the global climate.

The combined effect of warming and freshening is not only inducing a general sea level rise, but also reducing the density of high-latitude surface waters, and thus inhibiting the deep waters formation, opening to the risk of a significant weakening of the THC, as already simulated by a series of climate models. With possible feedbacks on marine ecosystems and the climate of entire regions. About 1,000 years is the average time necessary for a free round-trip riding the THC; at least in these days, because things may soon be changing. And in that case, it would not just be a matter of speed â&#x20AC;Ś

Sea level rise as a consequence of ocean warming and ice melting has already affected many atolls and low lying oceanic islands, as the Marshall or Solomon islands. Within 2100, current scenarios report of a mean increase between 70-100 cm compared to the level of late 1800, with severe consequences on many coastal cities such as New York or Venice.

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PORTFOLIO Scott “Gutsy” Tuason

At 49, Scott “Gutsy” Tuason has been diving for more than three decades, with four months as the longest surface interval he took while he was recovering from an episode of decompression sickness (he shaved two months off from the recommended six). It’s impossible to keep him away from the ocean for too long, and one suspects that he’s much more comfortable with his fishy friends anyway. Living in Manila makes it easy for a weekend escape to macro mecca Anilao, a 2.5 hour drive away. When Gutsy was a mere boy of eight, his father took him down for the first time in Anilao, without a PADI course, or even proper attire (they would dive in blue jeans and a sports jersey). Gutsy was hooked. “This is where I belong!” he recalls feeling after his first real dive with his own tank. When he was 16, his dad gave him his first underwater camera, a Nikonos 5. Years passed, hundreds of dives were logged, and he tried taking up marine biology at the University of Tampa, Florida, but dropped out 78

because of “there was too much bio and not enough marine,” and ended up finishing economics along with several photography courses. Eventually he moved back to Manila, worked in the family firearms business, all the while diving and shooting whenever he could. One evening, after a long day of diving in Anilao, Gutsy and his friend Eduardo Cu-Unjieng were talking over a few beers and observed that Anilao had enough photography subjects to warrant doing a book together. It would be their first. They were dismayed by the amount of dynamite and other forms of destructive fishing going on, and both shared the desire to showcase Anilao’s wealth of marine life from an artistic and conservation perspective. The book was launched in early 2000, and that year he attended his first DEMA (The Diving Equipment and Marketing Association trade show), where he met one of his idols, Nat Geo photographer David Doubilet. Barry Andrewartha, publisher of the magazine Sport Diver Australia, encouraged him to enter the book at the World Festival

of Underwater Images in Antibes, France. Anilao ended up winning the Palme dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Or award at Antibes. The little-known dive spot was put on the world map for macro photography. By the mid 2000s, Gutsy had switched over to digital photography, though he had fought it for a while. Everything he shot after his 2004 self-published book Bahura was now captured in pixels, and the dive experience itself has changed. No longer would he have to pace himself, instead he could blast away, or keep returning to the same subject over and over again. His next self-published book, Notes From the Sea, came a decade later, and to say there were a lot of photos to choose from would be an understatement. Notes From the Sea collects his best work from the last ten years with ten of his favorite and most amusing anecdotes from his diving excursions. 80

After a trip to Hawaii in 2012, Gutsy developed a new obsession, one that requires even more technical skill, and a healthy lack of fear of things that might go bump in the night: blackwater diving. It is a pitch dark experience, except for the millions of tiny life forms that swirl around like stars. 81

Every night in the ocean, the largest migration on the planet occurs, with deep sea animals rising up from the bottom to feed on zooplankton and phytoplankton. Photographing in these conditions is quite difficult and vertigo-inducing, as it is almost impossible to tell which way is up or down. Many of the creatures Gutsy has photographed while doing blackwater have never been shot before in their larval or juvenile stage, or exhibiting a particular behavior. He collaborates with marine scientists in the US and Australia to identify the species, and is now considered the leading blackwater diving expert in Asia, offering dive trips to remote and undiscovered locations in the Philippines. His latest book, Blackwater and Open Blue, pairs these nighttime photographs of the oftentimes minuscule with daylight images from open ocean diving, large animals like humpback whales and monumental events like the sardine run. It won Book of the Year at the 2017 Underwater Photographer of the Year Competition, and one of the judges, Alex Mustard, called it “a comprehensive view of the open ocean. Groundbreaking.” When he’s not out diving, Gutsy runs Squires Bingham Sports, a store in Manila that specializes in scuba gear, underwater imaging equipment, and cold beers at happy hour. 84

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Luca* knew how much the live-aboard dive trip meant to his friend, John*. So when John asked him to join him for the four-day adventure, he eagerly accepted. The two friends had diving experience. Luca was a PADI Divemaster, while John was an Advanced Open Water Diver who had recently obtained rebreather certification. They never imagined their trip would end in hospital following an incident - that could have had far more tragic consequences had it not been for the training and quick thinking of their dive guide, George*. The morning they boarded the live-aboard boat Luca was feeling tired. He had been out partying the night before. He stayed on the boat while the guide took John and another diver, Paul*, on two dives that morning. All four divers enjoyed an afternoon dive together. Then later that evening, Luca and John opted out of the planned night dive. The following morning Luca, who was now well-rested, decided to join Paul and the guide for the morning dive. This time it was John who decided to sleep in. That morning there was some current but it was nothing to be concerned about. Luca, Paul and their guide enjoyed themselves swimming around huge boulders and swim-throughs. At one point Paul noticed he was low in air supply, so the guide allowed him to swim with his alternate air source. When the time arrived to end the dive, Luca - who was closer to the surface than the other two - signalled with his torch that he was heading back to the boat. All seemed normal to Paul and the guide who did not suspect Luca was having trouble breathing. Paul and the guide proceeded with their ascent, stopping at safety stops. After a while Paul noticed Luca drop his mask. That was when they realised something was terribly wrong. Luca was no longer moving. 118

He was floating face down on the surface. The guide started swimming up, ignoring the safety stop. Paul followed him. When they reached the surface they turned Luca face upwards. The guide dropped his and Luca’s weights and asked Paul to hold Luca’s head out of the water. They needed to get the boat’s attention. But the guide couldn’t locate his whistle so he asked Paul to get the boat’s attention while he (the guide) held Luca’s head out of the water. Foam was oozing out of Luca’s mouth. The guide cleared the foam and started giving Luca mouth- to-mouth ventilation. He thought about using the resuscitation mask, but decided to leave it in his BCD pocket and concentrate on giving proper ventilation - just as he had learnt during the Rescue Diver Course. Within about five minutes the boat arrived next to them. The guide removed Luca’s BCD and the boat’s crew pulled him into the boat, removed his wetsuit, placed him laying down and gave him oxygen. Meanwhile, both the exhausted guide and Paul were also given oxygen as a precaution. By the time the guide regained his strength he found that Luca was doing well. He had been unconscious for about half an hour, during which time he had continued foaming at the mouth and coughed up liquid. The captain had called for a speedboat to take Luca to the mainland where the ambulance was waiting to take him to hospital. John went with him. They also contacted DAN Europe before leaving the boat to tell them what had happened and where they were heading. The DAN Europe team immediately started following the case. When the guide and Paul visited hospital they were told that Luca’s condition was most likely due to a sudden infection in his lungs. There was no need for hyperbaric therapy. Luca told them how his breathing problems started at about 10 meters depth. He had had difficulties keeping the regulator in his mouth due to foam coming from his lungs - that was why he had signalled 119

with his torch that he was heading to the boat. He also told them that, when he reached the surace, he waited for them while floating on his back. Then he lost consciousness and, luckily, dropped his mask. The guide said that when he had noticed Luca face down, it was clear what needed to be done. In this case this meant skipping the safety stop. Luca thanked them for what they had done and everyone agreed that Rescue training really did pay off.

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Luca also thanked the DAN Europe team who followed his case all throughout - right until he fully recovered and left hospital after spending several days under observation in the ICU. Review your Rescue skills from time to time. You might really need them at some point. *This is a true story but names have been changed to protect identities.

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So the most common response you will get when asking an underwater photographer regarding the right kind of lights to purchase, if you want to shoot with a light but not a strobe is a broad beamed photo or video light. For years this has been the common advise given to those who who wanted to venture into lights. The broad beam enables one to cast a “blanket light” and achieve a very similar photo from that taken with the use of strobes. In the past year or so, I decided to venture into utilizing just normal dive torches. irregardless of brand or type, trying to explore what outcome can be achieved with the use of narrow beam dive lights. I was very pleased that the outcome presented a very similar result to “snoot photography” (that has also in the past year or two become a very commonly practiced method used by professionals). As I mainly operate using Compact Cameras, the precision of “ligcasting” is also immediately obvious to the photographer 126

as he / she changes settings and views on his / her display seeing the “soon to be taken image” even before pressing down that shutter button. Specific light placement with a sharp beam torch versus the blanket of light a strobe or broad beamed video or photo light will offer. Also, unlike when using a snoot (attached to a strobe), a torch shows you exactly what effect your light presents as you move it closer or further from the subject OR casting shadows the way you want them. Using this lighting method actually is quite simple and often helps you isolate your subject from the background so it doesn’t “drown” into the surrounding background or to create that “spotlight effect” to draw focus onto your subject. To experiment with this yourself, first you turn off the flash on your camera. Then you look at your subject and decide how much depth of field you would like to have on it. You choose you aperture / F-stop based on this. 127

Once you have done this, you start to tune your shutter speed carefully just to the point that all you see on your display is black. DO NOT over do this. Just tune it to the point that it just turns black. Turn-on your torch and cast light on your subject and you will be able (to with precision) see what is to be of the photo on your display. Move your torch further away if your subject appears too bright or closer if it is a little too dark. While this method can be achieved with practically any dive torch, I was recently introduced to Inonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s latest LF800-N torch which was built specifically for this purpose. While most sharp beam torches allow you to cast that spotlight effect on your subject, The Inon LF800-N even allows you to control the size of your circle of light /spotlight thru screw-on lenses that narrow the beam to the size that could best suit your tiny subject.

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While I had some dives with this ability, I found it very useful as sometimes the macro critter is a mere 1cm wide and my regular torch no matter how close, still beamed a circle of light that was much bigger than what I wanted. So by utilizing these lenses, I had the ability to now beam down a narrowed circle of light that was just big enough to only highlight the specific areas of my photo. The Inon LF800-N operates on 3 x AA batteries and has a 2 step light intensity control. This allows you to intensify the light or tone it down, depending on the time of day youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re shooting. Obviously if youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re shooting midday with bright daylight above you, tuning the shutter speed till you see black will require a higher light intensity to illuminate your subject. The LF800-N burns at a full 800 lumens and 300 lumens on its low.

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Nimar D7500 NIKON D7500 HOUSING Housing Nikon D7500 (Body) Reference: NID7500 Depth Rating: 197â&#x20AC;&#x2122;(60m) White Polycarbonate Body /Clear Back Mechanical Controls Interchangeable Lens Port System 4xLatches with Safety Clips: Aisi 316 stainless steel 5-Pin Strobe Connector Optical Viewfinder Moisture Alarm Buoyancy: Slightly positive Ergonomic Design with Dual Handles Limited 2-Year Warranty

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SPECS • Depth Rating: 197ft (60m) • Made from corrosion-resistant Bayer Makrolon polycarbonate, clear in the back to allow you to monitor camera and waterproof seal • Mechanical controls: Power switch; Shutter-release button; Movierecord button ; ISO button; +/- button; Mode dial; Mode dial lock release;Play button; Erase button; Menù button; WB button; Qual. Button; Index/Magnify/Reduce button; Main command dial; Multi selector; Ok button; Lv (Live view) button; Live view selector. • 4xLatches with safety clips: aisi 316 stainless steel • Accepts optional, interchangeable bayonet-mount ports for a broad array of wide-angle, fisheye, macro, and zoom lenses • 5-pin connector enables the attachment of optional external strobes via sync cords • Removable optical viewfinder with 1.5x magnification • Moisture alarm alerts you in unlikely event of a breach in waterproof seal, giving you time to prevent damage to your camera and lens • Buoyancy: Slightly positive, Actual buoyancy may vary depending on choice of lens and port • Dual ergonomic grip handles offering improved balance and T-mounts for connecting optional lighting arms • Controls shown: On-Off, Shoot, Exposure meter reading button, Comp. button Exposure Diaphragm / Flash Comp, Mode selection ring, Erase Button, Play, Menu, Wb / Info and help and Photo prot. button, ISO button and Reduction I reproduction, Magnification in reproduction and quality setting button, Live View, Rec, multi-sector keys, “ok” button, Info, Main Control Ring • Limited 2-Year Warranty 135

DIMENSIONS Overall dimensions with handles, eyepiece and eyepiece guard: 13.39”x6.69”x5.90 (34x17x15cm) Weight with grip handles: 5.35lb (2.43kg) IN THE BOX WITH THE HOUSING • • • • • • • • • • • •

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Capture detailed underwater images and videos at depths up to 197’ with NiMAR D-Slr housing. The manufacturing material we used, Bayer’s Makrolon® polycarbonate, is comparable to the top quality materials since it’s shock and sea salt wear resistant. Despite a thickness of ca. 10mm the housing size and weight are kept to the minimum in order to facilitate the use underwater. The front bayonet mount grants the installation of portholes and domes so as to use the most suitable lenses for underwater photography/video shooting.

The utilization of high quality materials and the NiMAR scrupulous application of the ultra-thirty know-how are visible in the product details. The practical mechanical controls allow to manage intuitively and effectively most of the functions of the camera both when photographing and video shooting. It is waterproof thanks to 4 latches in stainless steel AISI 316 with safety clip so as to assure a proper closing. 138

The synch mounting bulkhead on the housing body allows the installation and use of an external flash connected by means of an electrical cable. Additionally, the housing is equipped with a removable optical viewfinder. As a safety measure, a moisture alarm alerts you to any breach in the waterproof seal, giving you time to prevent damage to your camera and lens. All the required spare parts for a suitable maintenance are included in the supply, in addition to the side handles in ABS where the arms for illuminators and flashes can be easily mounted. The paper User’s Mounting Instructions and the tutorial online video, available on the NiMAR YouTube channel, rapidly and directly provide the user with all the information in order to use and mount the equipment properly. Moreover, the NiMAR catalogue includes a wide range of compatible accessories like arms, lens holders, handles, etc. NiMAR offers then to its customers a direct technical support and a complete and constant assistance. https://www.nimar.it/en

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