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Sesimbra

dive with a simile II

Through to 2010 awards final round judging

Mesas - Sesimbra
04/04/2010

Boat: River Gurara - Sesimbra

Tompot blenny. Babbacombe. Devon. D200, 60mm.

Fifteen-spined stickleback.
Connemara.
D3 60mm.

Little & Large - shore crabs.
D3 60mm.

E49 submarine off the coast of the Island of Unst in the Shetland Isles, Scotland.
Best visibility I've encountered in UK waters by far.
Shortlisted!

Painted goby.
Connemara.
D3 60mm & Woody's

Male Cuckoo wrasse. Plymouth. D3, 105mm.

Going up?

Schoal of salpa in a shallow area near Sesimbra, Portugal.

Scorpion fish - River Gurara, Sesimbra, Portugal.

Jelly by night. This was a very lucky moment: I had attached the fisheye for that nightdive, a very unusual combination. Just entering the water we found this beautyful jellyfish. I think it will be very difficult to get such an opportunity again.
Shortlisted!

Underwater shopping...they just can't let it be ;-)

Little Cuttle, Sepiola atlantica,
Connemara.
D3 105mm.

Cleaning shrimp in front of her home, a clup tip anemone

Scorpion fish

Sea worm in a nice background.

Sunset over Inisbofin.
June 2009.

Videomaker in "Doria" wreck.
In 1980's I and my team explored some wreks in Azores Island, in the middle of Atlantc Sea, one of this was the " Doria". It is not the famous "Andrea Doria" sunken in Nantuket near New York.

A common cuttlefish with a bit of special illumination...

Videomaker in "Doria" wreck in Azores Islands.
In 1980's I and my team explored some wreks in Azores Island, in tthe middle of Atlantc Sea, one of this was the " Doria". It is not the famous "Andrea Doria" sunken in Nantuket near New York.

A night active tube anemone. There's a large field of these beautyful animals covering the sand in 8-12 m depth in front of Puerto del Carmen, Lanzarote.