What’s your most impressive diving moment of 2024?

[lermontov]

I did three dives (on the same day). Pathetic!

in the whole of 2024?

 

[MB NZ]

in the whole of 2024?

Yes. 2023 was better.

 

[fantarara]

That I forgot to bring my stick on lenses to Komodo and it was... fine? Didn't do any night dives though. Last time I went without these lenses on a night dive I ended up vomiting on ascend.

Yeah I'm old.

 

[Jake 10]

Attending the 2024 ScubaBoard Invasion in Bonaire, NDL

Thread 'Favorite Memories from the SB Invasion 2024 Bonaire'

Jun 23, 2024

Favorite Memories from the SB Invasion 2024 Bonaire​

This is our thread for the Crew to share your comments, ​

favorite dives, top side memories, videos, photos
and trip reports from this year's
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[dirtfarmer]

I had one of my top 10 dives since starting to dive 25 year ago at Tiger Beach, where when there were 7 Tiger Sharks in the area within sight and a small pod of dolphins came in to play all around the dive site. They swam around and checked out all the divers for a minute or two then swam off then back for more checking out the divers. Truly Epic encounter.

 

[rmorgan]

I’m not sure about “impressive,” but definitely marvelous, and humbling. Just last month, we were on a night dive on a wall in Misool. We'd already had a great dive; nudis, of course, and several parrots in their night dress, and crabs; and then a beautiful, large (80-100cm? I'm sure it is the largest I've seen) scrawled filefish swam up to me, between me and the camera! for scritches. I moved it along after a few seconds, and it swam straight to Nancy, a few feet behind me, and wanted more pets. Naturally, we try not to touch . . . but, hey. So that was cool. A few minutes later, about 55 minutes in, my camera was almost out of battery (dumba$$ didn't change it after the third dive) when our incredible guide started flashing his light at us. I got to where he was, in time to to find a walking shark coming up beside him and then duck into a small cave. So, that was really cool. I turned the camera on, but I'd already shut the strobes down (we were on our way to the skiff, after all); still, I got a couple of shots in the beam of the headlamp I was wearing. The battery was at about 6%, so I shut the camera down in hopes of gaining another shot. Then the walking shark swirled around in the cave, and came out straight at me. I had enough time to hit the power button, and managed to get a shot off, again with the focus light. I'm pretty sure I didn't have my eye on the viewfinder, but it wouldn't have mattered. The image was very (profoundly) underexposed, but the OM-1's RAW engine let me pull out this detail.

Here's what it looked like the the little cave (also crazy underexposed).

So, it swam on. A few minutes later, a second one crossed in front of us and . . . well, walked . . . up the slope. Our guide said that they are known to mate at night in those waters, so perhaps that's what was happening. Anyway, the camera battery was at 3% when we got back to the liveaboard, us left to reflect on how unimportant we are down there, and how little we know about it.

 

[The Chairman]

What made your 2024 dives truly special?

After almost 3 (4?) years, I actually got to get in two dives post back surgery.