Wednesday, 6 April 2016

Turks and Caicos (Jasons Folly) + Instagram & Flickr

Hello everyone, sorry for not posting recently it has been a very busy time.  I have a lot of great news so read to the bottom!

Story of Jasons Folly: The story goes a man and his girlfriend rented a private boat with Dive Provo in Turks and Caicos.  The man decided he was going to purpose to his GF at the bottom.  He hid the ring in a plastic bag and put it in his BCD pocket.  He had a underwater photographer with them on the trip (was designed to get the moment she saw the ring) however when he got to the sandy bottom the ring was GONE! instead of the moment she said yes the photographer captured the moment the man realized he lost the 7k ring.



Summary:  This dive site actually started right at our halfway point from boat cove.  We descended to a sandy bottom filled with Garden Eels.  The site offered a lot of overhangs and cracks in the wall for fish and creatures to hide.  We headed to the right and there was a lot of life on the wall,  not as steep of a section but lots of coral everywhere.  Mooring line pretty much is right on the wall so makes a easy descent and ascent point.

As far as what I saw, there wasn't anything really different however I was able to get close to a pregnant reef shark, lots of sting rays. The most amazing thing about this dive has to be what accompanied us the entire time.  Throughout the dive you could hear the humpback whales talking to each other.  It was a beautiful sound hearing them communicate to each other.  Humpback whales can be heard from up to 50 miles away.


I created a Flickr and a Instagram for everyone the share and view their underwater photos.  Currently it has started with a bang with lots of followers.  I have to thank the original two flickr members Pacificcoast101 and Skeptic14 for uploading photos.

Follow the Instagram at worldwidescubaphotos
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You can email photos to worldwidescubaphotos@gmail.com and I will post and tag any user! This is a account to share your photos with a growing audience ! Our Flickr account is a great place to upload photos and share as well.

Friday, 1 April 2016

Turks and Caicos (Boat Cove)

Summary: Sandy bottom, longer distance to the wall. Steepest section of the wall to date with plenty of overhangs for creatures to hide in.  Turn around point is a sandy patch so guidance and distance are very simple.

Things I saw: Nassau Grouper, Lobsters, Trumpet fish, Lion Fish, lots of small tangs and grunts, Angel fish and Parrot Fish, 100s of garden eels (turnaround point).

Shutter 1/400 F#2.8 ISO 100 
This was the first dive with my friend David. He was certified a couple days before and so we wanted to do one day of diving actually together.  This dive I stayed shallower to monitor his depth and air consumption. My computer read 87 feet but because of air consumption we were only 40 minutes. As well my starting PSI was 2750 instead of 3000.  We did stay at depth for longer than I had planned for since the overhangs were really cool and a lot of marine action and beautifu
l colours on the coral. If diving this site I would recommend a majority of your diving at the 70 foot mark and perhaps diving below the overhangs when required.  We saw a lot of the standard fish,  at the turn around point I noticed slightly in the distance a bunch of garden eels in the distance. I signalled my buddy over to quickly investigate since this is the first time he has seen an eel.  There were easily hundreds of these eels in this sandy patch between coral.

Coral formation, 1/400 F# 5.6 ISO 100 








Nassau Grouper just before turn around point hiding under coral formation.
Shutter 1/400, F# 4, ISO 125
Lion Fish, Shutter 1/400 F# 4 ISO 150 (probably should have used 100) 
Capturing a photo of these fish are very tough, this is one of my better ones and sadly its not that good.
The colours behind/around the fish are poor but the colour of the fish is very accurate (at least the fish turned out okay!)
Shutter 1/250 F#5.6 ISO 200
Blue tang and stoplight parrot fish
Shutter 1/400, F#4, ISO 125