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Many of us can only look enviably at some of the amazing photographs taken by Dave and Janet.
Introduction
David and I have dived extensively since we took up Scuba Diving in 1998. We have dived in lots of places around the world, Sipadan, Mabul, Truck, Yap, Several Liveaboards on the Barrier reef and Coral Sea, Maldives, Gibraltar, Cozumel, Senotes in the Yucatan, Canaries, Bali, Fiji, Manado, Lembeh Straits, Red Sea, Papua New Guinea etc.
Photographic equipment
Our current equipment consists of Nikon D70 and D70s, Ikelite housing and DS125 strobes.
Our Experiences
Our training was done mostly in Stoney Cove, in a wet suit that was too small and would not zip up, we dived local pools as well as Dorothea in Snowdonia, Dosthill at Tamworth, Silver Bay Anglesey, Portland Harbour, Porth Ysgaden on the Llynn Penninsula Wales.
Our first diving abroad was done in Gibraltar, then we ventured to The Senotes in Mexico and Sharm El Shiekh in the Red Sea, which we have since visited many times, along with Dahab to the North.
Our favourite dive sites would have to be….Yolande Reef in the Red Sea, around Mabul Island in Sabah, and Lembeh Straits in Northern Sulawesi where the fish and critters are the most amazing things you could ever find.
Our experiences have been many, to many to mention here, we have had some fantastic trips and met some of the most wonderful people you could wish to meet, many of them are still our friends to this day. We have had some real scary moments, and some that have made us laugh, and some that made us cry but I don’t think we would change any one of them.
These days our diving is confined to warm water, and we don’t get away on dive trips as often as we did, we two trips a year now as a minimum, but we were doing 3 or 4 multi week trips, our Australia trips were the best, we would leave the UK in November and come back in January……we did that every year for three or four years untill we discovered muck diving around Mabul and Lembeh. Muck diving is now all we do, we find that the search for those tiny strange critters is fascinating…..and then finding something we have never seen before is magical, some of my more recent photo’s from Lembeh allmost defy nature..
What have we learnt from all this………..respect for the sea, respect for animals and creatures however big or small, take things easy and steady…..don’t rush, certainly not where diving is concerned, if someone says to me “hurry up, the boat is going”……..then I’m afraid it goes without me. Never bow to peer pressure, if it doesn't feel right, it probably isn't. Never get in the water without your camera because the dive that you do………you’ll miss that whale Shark or a new species and no one will believe you.
Why do I like diving………….because the phone don’t ring down there. Please Please don’t invent one that will.
You can learn more about David and Janet and see more of their amazing pictures on their website www.seatreker.com.
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