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  • About the Photographer
    • Artist’s Statement
    • Photobucket Photos
    • Contact Form
  • Sea Portraits
    • Marine Mammals
      • Seals and Sea Lions
      • Manatees
      • Whales and Dolphins
    • Sea Horses and Sea Dragons
      • Sea Dragons
      • Sea Horses
      • Pipefishes
    • Sharks and Rays
      • Sharks–whalesharks
      • Rays
    • Clownfish/Anemonefish
    • Reef Dwellers
      • Gobies and Blennies
      • Dragonets
      • Boxes and Puffers
      • Angelfishes
      • Scorpionfishes
      • Crinoid
      • Jellies
      • Other
    • Cephalopods
      • Octopi
      • Cuttlefish and Squid
    • Crustaceans
      • Crabs
      • Shrimp
    • Mollusks
      • Clams and Snails
      • Sea Slugs
    • Turtles
    • Kraits
    • Tubeworms and Flatworms
  • Sea Vistas/Abstracts/Other
    • Tropical
      • Divers
    • Cold and Temperate Waters
    • Ocean Abstracts
    • Seeing
    • Marine Behavior
    • The Nursery
  • Land Photos
    • Farm and Field
      • Cows
      • Cats and Dogs
      • Winged
      • Pigs
      • Horses
      • LLamas and Alpacas
      • Butterflies and Insects
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      • Koalas
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Preparing to dive:Marine Mammals

   Even after nearly 1000 dives, and even in the comfortable toastiness of tropical waters, there is nothing automatic or elegant about gearing up. Its feels like a thousand klunky pieces and parts that all need to work right. One thinks: are all the  0-rings and hoses intact and sound? The computer charged? The camera batteries charged, the right lens installed, the housing well sealed? The tank a good fill? The weights proper? All buckled, fins and mask on? The dive plan understood? Relaxing comes only after crossing that boundary between worlds –  beneath the rippling, surgey surface, drifting slowly, gently downwards. Deep breath, focus. Now starts the hunt for the real treasure of the sea: the chance to experience the creatures, lives and stories of another universe – a place that is at once familiar, and as alien as any the cosmos might possibly serve up.

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    • Sharks–whalesharks
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