What a dive...

[justleesa]

Thanks on both counts Jamdiver

(BTW, where is Xaymaca??)

 

[Jamdiver]

Xaymaca = Jamaica.

It's a reference to the name given to the island by the original inhabitants, the Arawaks who inhabited the island prior to Columbus and his gang's arrival.

 

[justleesa]

Xaymaca = Jamaica.

It's a reference to the name given to the island by the original inhabitants, the Arawaks who inhabited the island prior to Columbus and his gang's arrival.

Interesting! Thanks for that

 

[Mike Newman]

Well I finally get to go back in the water today..I get ready...and am really looking forward to getting in the water again.

So we get out there, I jump in, Roger passes me my camera....I make it to the line and notice my housing is fogging, now why would it fog?

....yup, you got it....it flooded.

Not gonna worry about the how or why...it just did. Who knows, might be connected to a problem I had with the housing a while back. Lucky for me I have a spare camera...but I might need a new housing too.

Anyway...after taking the camera back to the swimstep I go down...now picture this...the further down I go the clearer everything gets, I can make out the stern of the YO...I can see that there is a turtle, then two, then three...an eagle ray glides into view and there, resting in the sand a 5' white tip reef shark....I could of had all five of them in one picture

, on the other wreck I see the biggest Indian nudibranch I had ever seen...I see two...then a third...there were cushion star fish every where....and I didn't have my camera...

Then at the second dive site I just hang out near the boat and find the "shell" of a small slipper lobster...very cute....Then I find another dime so I swim a bit more and find not one, but two Titan Scorpionfish...I haven't seen one in over 3 years....now I find two...the larger of the two was about 18" long and about 6-7'' across the tummy...HUGE!!! and, you got it...I didn't have my camera...

..I go back to find the group and take them over to where I found the titans...and they had left but I found another one (a 3rd one!!!!!) and this one was a real looker....very clean, no growth on it - just a real handsome Titan...This one was about 15" long...He was sitting so still, watching me...and once again....I didn't have my camera...

Just not fair!!

I had my 5050 fail at the end of two weeks in Roatan last Fall - (since repaired at their expense by Olympus) - and after it went down I saw it all - Murphy seems to rule the world of u/w photography.

 

[justleesa]

ain't that the truth??

Good to hear that it's been repaired

 

[Aggie Diver]

While not a flood...

I did a dive in the Bahamas where when we got to the bottom there were free swimming morays and even a couple of conch in shells making their way across the bottom.

I go to take a pic, and get a message of no memory card found... I took it out between dives to download the pics, and forgot to put it back in

One of the most 'active' dives I've done in terms of the animal life being out and about, and I was reduced to a spectator with no camera to work with...

 

[Fish_Whisperer]

Sorry to hear about your camera...