Trip Report Live trip updates: USA to Anilao Photo Academy

[Blackcrusader]

I am only joking, doing 3 or 4 dives a day is exhausting. We will see them when we are ready. Have a great day.

It's how I do my dive vacations. 3 - 4 dives a day straight for 12 - 15 days. 40 - 50 plus dives normal for me in one vacation. Several dive vacations a year. I'm still young nearing 62, still have some energy left for my diving.

 

[NootFish]

I was in heaven when I was on an Aggressor liveaboard where we did five dives a day most days! I did every single one.

Today I saw nudibranches having sex. The photos are going to be crappy because I was having some trouble with my strobes, but I know what I saw and it was pretty awesome!

(no post about nudi sex would be complete without attaching this video)

 

[jjmochi]

This is why I provide a concrete number so that people can decide what's cold for them. My experience of temperature is different from most peoples', I'm always cold at what people consider to be normal room temperature, and I'm only warm and happy when the temperature is over 80°F indoors.

I am also not swimming around a lot because I'm doing super macro photography with a diopter, so I'm spending a lot of time in one spot working on getting a focused photograph. However I was also cold during our black water dive tonight when the water temperature was 25° and we were swimming around quite a bit because there was not much to see.

There is a ridiculous biodiversity out here, I saw three species of chromodoris on one of the reefs today! It's also really cool how one dive site is sand with a few bits of coral and then you move over a couple hundred meters and it's a beautiful reef.

what was the blackwater dive like? I've always wanted to try one but it does freak me out a little diving in the dark with no bottom...
can't wait to see the pictures!

 

[Blackcrusader]

what was the blackwater dive like? I've always wanted to try one but it does freak me out a little diving in the dark with no bottom...
can't wait to see the pictures!

You could try a shore dive at night if you have an easy entry. Night dives are total fun and I often do them on walls where the sea floor is 50m below. So you can have fun shining your torch down or across the wall looking for things. The night is full of creatures you wont see on a day dive like squid coming up to feast near the surface.

 

[Centrals]

You could try a shore dive at night if you have an easy entry. Night dives are total fun and I often do them on walls where the sea floor is 50m below. So you can have fun shining your torch down or across the wall looking for things. The night is full of creatures you wont see on a day dive like squid coming up to feast near the surface.

LOL
How do you know the OP has no night dive experience? She is specifically asking for "Blackwater dive"!
Do you know what is Blackwater dive? Definitely NOT.
Told you before: plenty to learn.

What is blackwater diving?

Blackwater diving is basically a night dive without torches, but using high powered light sources, to simulate the moon and atrract unique critters.

masterliveaboards.com

 

[NootFish]

I generally do a night dive every night if I'm allowed to, I love night diving! Over here, a black water dive means diving in open water with hundreds (ideally thousands) of feet of water between us and the bottom. You got cool beasties sometimes that come up from the deep, and it's a really surreal experience floating through the darkness with the occasional jellyfish or shrimp or squid. I've been hoping to see a blanket octopus, but none have a period yet. The other guest with us really likes black water diving and goes out every night for sure. I personally right now seem to enjoy macro photography in shallower because there's more of a chance I get to interact with an octopus, and lots of fun things to take photographs of. Blackwater photography is really different and I'm still getting the hang of it.

 

[Blackcrusader]

LOL
How do you know the OP has no night dive experience? She is specifically asking for "Blackwater dive"!
Do you know what is Blackwater dive? Definitely NOT. Told you before: plenty to learn.

What is blackwater diving?

Blackwater diving is basically a night dive without torches, but using high powered light sources, to simulate the moon and atrract unique critters.

masterliveaboards.com

lol
I have done blackwater dives from shore. Again I bend the knee to you. Just because my dive torch light is not turned on doesn't mean near the end of the dive I can't turn it on and use it to scan for other things before exiting to shore again. One of the reasons I like my perdix as I wrote before is I can see it on any dive including blackwater dives.

 

[NootFish]

lol
I have done blackwater dives from shore. Again I bend the knee to you. Just because my dive torch light is not turned on doesn't mean near the end of the dive I can't turn it on and use it to scan for other things before exiting to shore again. One of the reasons I like my perdix as I wrote before is I can see it on any dive including blackwater dives.

I love my perdix, had it for 4 years so far. It makes diving a pleasure.

 

[NootFish]

Today we saw a pair of ghost pipefish, leaf scorpion fish, hairy shrimp, leaf sheep, some new nudis... Site called coconuts. Sandy bottom with all kinds of goodies hidden in the sand.

 

[Centrals]

lol
I have done blackwater dives from shore. Again I bend the knee to you. Just because my dive torch light is not turned on doesn't mean near the end of the dive I can't turn it on and use it to scan for other things before exiting to shore again. One of the reasons I like my perdix as I wrote before is I can see it on any dive including blackwater dives.

Of course you would had claimed you had!!! Same old story.
Your knees must have turned blue!
So now you know what is Blackwater dive!!! LOL