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"Live on air" - This small hermid crab seems to have a proper "antenna" to communicate with the outside world ;-))
25th June 2011, Time : 13.47 . The last seconds of "life" of the patrol boat "119" . In the water : The technic team that helped to make the wreck sink. 20 seconds after this shot, I was diving as the very first one at this brand new wreck :-)
Commando central and captain's seat of the coastguard patrol boat 119. Magic filters only, no strobe.
Exploring the "SG 119", 1 day after it sinked. Sigma 10-20 ( set to 10 mm ) with Magic Filters, Canon 40D.
Patrol Boat 119 - I took this shot 13 minutes after this new shipwreck touched oceans ground. Lots of dirt & dust clouds....the ship's stern was totally covered by a sand cloud that time. Ambient light shot, converted to B/W.
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this not only breaks the record for shooting a wreck so soon after shooting it's also a super composition - but then you'd expect that from Rico!
The plane
Patrol Boat 119. 24 hours after it touched the ground. 10mm lens with magic filters attached.
Coastguard Patrol Boat 119. Was a big honor to be one of the first to dive this new wreck and the very first who takes uw photos of it. This photo was made 24 hours after the ship sinked. Canon 40D, Sigma 10-20mm with Magic Filters, no strobes.
this was my macro entry into the contest in Bodrum
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shot taken during the 13th WorldChampionShip competition held in Bodrum end of May
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It always works to run a diagonal into a corner
This is the turkish coastguard patrol boat "B119", just 1 minute after touchdown on its final resting place. It's the very first photo ever of this brand-new shipwreck. Still bubbles and smoke are escaping. Bad visibility, very rough circumstances.
A nudi from med,Bodrum turkey...
The diver at enter the cove
Nudi with the eggs
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Blenny at the edge ;-)
"Climbing up"
Close up of a tubeworm
Conge closeup. 60mm makro lens with +10 diopter attached. F27, 1/125 sc., ISO 200
"small beauty" ;-)
"Golden Girl"
Canon 40D with 60mm makro and +4 closeup lens attached. F13, 1/90 sc., ISO 200
1 year at UWP - Happy Birthday to myself !!! This is a self-timer pic made in 15 meter depht. My scuba gear was placed behind the camera. Had a hard job to bring me in position in only 7 seconds. Sorry, therefore no "happy & smiling face", lol !
nudi from Turkey
they've tried hard to blow it over....( but it didn't happened )
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blue jelly
Encounter by chance the Triton in the house reef!!
Olympus Digital Compact Camera and internal strobe.
f 3,5 1/100 sn. ISO 80
"Shooting me, shooting you ;-)"
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