Warm up trip to Tubbataha

[Wolverine]

I have been in Puerto Galera in the last few days (in fact, I am still diving today) in preparation for my trip to Tubbataha. I have posted some new pics in the following gallery. Still have some things to brush up on (esp wide angles and blue water shots). Hopefully I would be ready by April 10. Enjoy!

http://www.scubaboard.com/gallery/showgallery.php?cat=1638

 

[Dee]

Great shots! Enjoy your trip!

 

[Mike Veitch]

Have you hooked up with the Scubaboard PPD gang?

 

[Wolverine]

Not yet... been too busy looking at the Underwater Photo board...

 

[Mike Veitch]

I would suggest hitting the Point Bar tonight.... they had a big soiree there last night. There is over 20 fellow SB people on PG at the moment...

They have a big Scubaboard sign and everything....

 

[f3nikon]

Shouldn’t you be on your second night dive by now (and I mean a real night scuba diving) most hard corals really just open up at night plus the colorful close-ups of sleeping parrot fish’s scales and eyes. Bypass the soft corals they look kind of anemic at night, no current and sunlight.

 

[Mike Veitch]

Shouldn’t you be on your second night dive by now (and I mean a real night scuba diving) most hard corals really just open up at night plus the colorful close-ups of sleeping parrot fish’s scales and eyes. Bypass the soft corals they look kind of anemic at night, no current and sunlight.

Night dive?!?!?! Its happy hour man!!!

Night dive he says......

(wish i could find a shaking his head sadly smilie....) i should also be on a Mandarinfish dive i suppose... but its 6pm, time for happy hour!

Oh and Nikon, its at night when Soft Corals absolutely bloom the most!!!!!! (believe me i have done hundreds of em...hence why i shudder at the thought of more.. )

 

[Wolverine]

No night dive tonight... will head down to Point Bar tonight... sounds like fun... just ended my last dive at grasslands and looking forward to many bottles of San Miguel.

 

[f3nikon]

Mike

That’s funny… the soft corals I was talking about are the reds, yellow and purple ones (sharp spikes) were all limp due to the lack of sunlight for the algae in their tissues plus the colors are not as bright as in the daylight and to add less current at night, I have video taped these both at night and day, there is a difference. Hard corals come out at night, the softer tentacles anyway, during the day their tentacles will get nailed by the prowling reef fish.

I guess you spend enough time in the water; you have the right to boze it up. I was talking about the rest of us who gets the usual two week vacation once a year, who have to make the most of their picture taking opportunities.

 

[f3nikon]

No night dive tonight... will head down to Point Bar tonight... sounds like fun... just ended my last dive at grasslands and looking forward to many bottles of San Miguel.

Dive Safe Wolverine

Did about 25 dives on Tubbataha reefs on the Tristar II wish I could go again, Great wall diving, look for subjects not common to the rest of the Philippines. For me I would skip the common sea slugs or small stuff you can find in Batangas. Go for the close focus wide angle on the large schools, big game, sharks on every dive, also the small caves and over hangs overflowing with color.

PS The TristarII is now part of the reef, wrecked back in 1989, now sure which reef in the Sulu Sea, Jacques Cousteau visited that wreck a few years back.