Where did you solo dive today?
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Vis was absolutely trash shallower than ~15m, perhaps 2-3m?
The real shame is I left that GPO to find other critters and when I returned it had left, along with my opportunity to finally get some pictures of one out of the den. It was showing lots of curiousity behavior so next time I need to just wait when I see that and have the time available. Good news is there were lots of other critters including enough in the shallows to extend my dive way out.
This was my first dive with strobes vs video lights, they are an absolute game changer in terms of cutting down on backscatter and true colour.
The real shame is I left that GPO to find other critters and when I returned it had left, along with my opportunity to finally get some pictures of one out of the den. It was showing lots of curiousity behavior so next time I need to just wait when I see that and have the time available. Good news is there were lots of other critters including enough in the shallows to extend my dive way out.
This was my first dive with strobes vs video lights, they are an absolute game changer in terms of cutting down on backscatter and true colour.
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I did a couple of solo shore dives whilst in Bonaire. One was a night dive. The mission was to again view the ostracods bioluminescence. This occurs several days after a full moon. Taking a buddy would have been okay but complicated things as the requirement is total and absolute darkness. I wore my watch under my sleeve, I flipped my Shearwater computer over so the screen was against my arm. I turned off all lights and did not use those silly tank banger blinkie lights. I located a suitable spot during the daylight recon dive and proceeded to the location. Once there I shut my small light off and went totally dark. It was eerie as always and with the tarpon swirling about sort of spooky. My eyes dark adapted after about 20 minutes and the ostracods put on a nice show for me in the total darkness. Then after about 20 minutes or so I saw in the distance a glow of a light, probably some of my buddies from the group. My plan was to attack them in the darkness from behind 
. I moved to an advantageous position to ambush them and was in position and just as my trap was ready to spring, damn, OMG 
something hit me, OMG!!!!! ! Was it a killer shark, a giant octopus or some other man eater from the depths, did I still have all of my parts! No. A tarpon speared me, the bas----d. Ruined my plot to scare the beejeebers out of my friends. Instead I was the one who had the fright but the ensuing ruckus gave me and my plot away. Oh well, the ostracods were well worth the stealth mode and going solo. Still, it would have been legendary 
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. I moved to an advantageous position to ambush them and was in position and just as my trap was ready to spring, damn, OMG something hit me, OMG!!!!! ! Was it a killer shark, a giant octopus or some other man eater from the depths, did I still have all of my parts! No. A tarpon speared me, the bas----d. Ruined my plot to scare the beejeebers out of my friends. Instead I was the one who had the fright but the ensuing ruckus gave me and my plot away. Oh well, the ostracods were well worth the stealth mode and going solo. Still, it would have been legendary .Similar threads
