havnmonkey
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I received my Ikelite housing for my G6 and could not wait to get it wet...
Unfortunately it was in late february, however I live in Daytona beach FL!!!!!! And a day of diving isn't too painful if you pick the right days.
My friends have also just purchased their first spearguns and were eager to get some use out of them. So a bunch of us hopped in my friends boat; three of us were diving and the other three were going to fish on the surface.
This was my first dive with the new housing and a camera I've only had for six months so that was a little hard to get used to; but the Ikelite housing is solid and well made so I felt confident with it. This was also my first dive off the coast of Florida-I've been to Coz, Costa Maya, and GC-so it was a little nerve racking when I realized the max visibility would be no more than 5-7 ft. Why bring my camera? Well I have not made a dive without one and that includes my open water cert! I'm starting to wonder what it would be like to dive without looking through an LCD screen...
I new it was a about 60-70 ft depth (by the way our first dive was in search of an anchor about 8 miles offshore) but when I hit 15 ft and everything kind of disappeared except for a gentle glow above me it was really freaky! At about 50 ft I was looking for the bottom but couldn't find it at all... it found me! I crash landed on the bottom like some kind of downed helicopter!
It took me a minute to gain my bearings and then I realized I was sitting on the ocean floor and there was nothing around, just flat sand for all the 7ft I could see. We were supposed to be on a bunch of old cement bridge pieces but couldn't see them at all... so we swam about 15 ft and nearly swam right into them.
I was so amazed at the wild life all around me; the fish, the formations on the culverts, and the critters were everywhere!!!! So my buddies went after some Sheepshead and I went after some pics.
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We made two dives that day: the first was eight miles offshore on a bunch of concrete rubble and the second was 22 miles offshore on a little 3-4ft ledge full of lobster and one very shy moray eel! The water temp bottomed out at 58 degrees and the depth hit 90 ft max. Visibility was crappy for the first dive and poor for the second.
So now I have a question: Do any of us dive without our cameras? And if we do why? Because those conditions were horrible for photography but I had to have it... I don't get it.
Unfortunately it was in late february, however I live in Daytona beach FL!!!!!! And a day of diving isn't too painful if you pick the right days.
My friends have also just purchased their first spearguns and were eager to get some use out of them. So a bunch of us hopped in my friends boat; three of us were diving and the other three were going to fish on the surface.
This was my first dive with the new housing and a camera I've only had for six months so that was a little hard to get used to; but the Ikelite housing is solid and well made so I felt confident with it. This was also my first dive off the coast of Florida-I've been to Coz, Costa Maya, and GC-so it was a little nerve racking when I realized the max visibility would be no more than 5-7 ft. Why bring my camera? Well I have not made a dive without one and that includes my open water cert! I'm starting to wonder what it would be like to dive without looking through an LCD screen...
I new it was a about 60-70 ft depth (by the way our first dive was in search of an anchor about 8 miles offshore) but when I hit 15 ft and everything kind of disappeared except for a gentle glow above me it was really freaky! At about 50 ft I was looking for the bottom but couldn't find it at all... it found me! I crash landed on the bottom like some kind of downed helicopter!
It took me a minute to gain my bearings and then I realized I was sitting on the ocean floor and there was nothing around, just flat sand for all the 7ft I could see. We were supposed to be on a bunch of old cement bridge pieces but couldn't see them at all... so we swam about 15 ft and nearly swam right into them.
I was so amazed at the wild life all around me; the fish, the formations on the culverts, and the critters were everywhere!!!! So my buddies went after some Sheepshead and I went after some pics.
We made two dives that day: the first was eight miles offshore on a bunch of concrete rubble and the second was 22 miles offshore on a little 3-4ft ledge full of lobster and one very shy moray eel! The water temp bottomed out at 58 degrees and the depth hit 90 ft max. Visibility was crappy for the first dive and poor for the second.
So now I have a question: Do any of us dive without our cameras? And if we do why? Because those conditions were horrible for photography but I had to have it... I don't get it.
