Dive Number: 280 20/03/12 15.35, Chimney Rock
Wind: ???
Tide: ???
Conditions:
Visibilty: 8m
Water Temp: 18c
Bottom Time: 48minutes
Max Depth: 21.6m
Air usage: 170bar/2500psi
SAC: ???? litres/min
Details: Some dives will stick in your mind for ever…this will be one of them. My first encounter with a broad-nosed seven gilled shark. Here’s what i posted to flickr about this dive after it happened:
“What an experience!!! I have dreamt of seeing a sevengill shark since i started diving, and i’m not sure i’ll have a better encounter than my first yesterday. I was sitting at about 20m, stalking a large school of bullseye that were sitting in a gully over a wall from me. Luckily i had the camera all ready to go when this shark gracefully swum through an archway, along the gully and continued past within a couple of metres of me. I was totally blind-sided from its vision and it continued through the gully and into the blue, totally unaware of my presence. It had an amazing vibe to it. It moved so gracefully and it almost gave off a happy vibe, without a trace of menace or fear about it. Perhaps it would have behaved differently if it was aware of my presence….this is why i feel i’ll never get an encounter like this again.. just nature doing nature’s thing.”
Camera Details: Tokina 10-17mm , SS400/SS200 Strobes
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