Very big Mola Mola at 101m depth at the U455 wreck

[Germie]

Last week, we went to the U455, a wreck between 90 and 118m depth.
The wreck is not that big, it has a wooden deck and the viz was great. Our diveplan was to dive the part between 90 and 105m depth. It would be the first time I took the camera over 60m depth. But I specially bought it for such dives.

It started with a mola mola far away, that swam away. Then I saw a big startfish and took a picture of it:

Sadly my camera refused to work, so no pictures of the tower of the uboat. I had to go up to 92m to turn it on again and then I saw the most beautifull fish I have ever seen: a HUGE mola mola near the wreck on the other side we went down.

camera work, please work I was praying. I could not change any settings, but I wanted some pictures (I already have contacted the seller as I bought a 100m housing, so I don't expect to have problems with functionality at 100m, but in reality the first buttons refused to work around 62-65m depth already).
But I got some really nice shots. I had to wait till the deco to see if the camera recorded something, but YES, it did I am soooo happy with the pictures of this really special dive. It was my 31th time deeper than 100m, but never saw a mola mola.

So I have wreckpictures with a giant fish. The best combination

 

[kelemvor]

Amazing! What a dive it must have been.

 

[Dan]

Nice shot! Wow that’s a deep dive!

I saw one at 43m in Crystal Bay, Nusa Penida, Bali, Indonesia. It was being cleaned by a dinner plate size Emperor Anglefish (see my avatar).

 

[icechip]

Great shots! That's pretty cool.

 

[johndiver999]

Very nice shot. Congratulations

 

[iamrushman]

wow..incredible....nice photos.....what's the size?...thanks for sharing.

 

[Germie]

wow..incredible....nice photos.....what's the size?...thanks for sharing.

It is around 1.8-2m, so a huge one. With a relatively small eye, but i was as close as we had eye contact. I used a fisheye lens.

 

[chillyinCanada]

Was that your first ever mola mola or your first at that depth?

I have also had good sightings at Nusa Penida, one at 33m and one at 20m! And out of season too!! So exciting but I'm not a photog.

 

[Germie]

First ever.
My first seahorse was on my first 100m dive at the 6m decostop.
My first mola mola was at 101 m depth.

 

[RyanT]

Thanks for sharing. What an awesome dive!