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Fun-Dive in the Netherlands! Including all possible diver-rudeness, eg. being overrun by a DPV serveral times 😅!

Enjoy!

https://clip.place/w/pBruqNN2dp2J6EnRPNeSL3

@scubadivers
@jens_schuette
#diving #scubadiving #scuba

Fun-Dive in the Netherlands! Including all possible diver-rudeness, eg. being overrun by a DPV serveral times 😅!

Enjoy!

https://clip.place/w/pBruqNN2dp2J6EnRPNeSL3

@scubadivers
@jens_schuette
#diving #scubadiving #scuba

Fun-Dive in the Netherlands! Including all possible diver-rudeness, eg. being overrun by a DPV serveral times 😅!

Enjoy!

https://clip.place/w/pBruqNN2dp2J6EnRPNeSL3

@scubadivers
@jens_schuette
#diving #scubadiving #scuba

Fun-Dive in the Netherlands! Including all possible diver-rudeness, eg. being overrun by a DPV serveral times 😅!

Enjoy!

https://clip.place/w/pBruqNN2dp2J6EnRPNeSL3

@scubadivers
@jens_schuette
#diving #scubadiving #scuba

Fun-Dive in the Netherlands! Including all possible diver-rudeness, eg. being overrun by a DPV serveral times 😅!

Enjoy!

https://clip.place/w/pBruqNN2dp2J6EnRPNeSL3

@scubadivers
@jens_schuette
#diving #scubadiving #scuba

RE: https://social.tchncs.de/@jens_schuette/116588509354180243

Good luck! We had the whole slate mine for ourselves ❤️!

A nice but cold weekend in the Sauerland. But what can you expect...you can be happy if there isn't snow in summer 😉.

#diving #scuba #scubadiving #cavediving #sauerland #willingen

Went diving for the first time this season yesterday, here in northern Greece. Water was already 20°C at surface, but 16°C at 30m. It was "a bit chilly" even with a 5mm wetsuit + 2mm over-shorty, but fortunately it was sunny outside. Saw lots of Antiopella cristata, a few small lobsters in their holes, a few curious octopuses going out in plain daylight and looking at us, and LOTS of fish, small and big.

Pictures will come later, after we've edited them to fix up the colours a bit.

@scubadivers

#Diving #ScubaDiving #Chalkidiki #Greece #MarineLife

Whale Shark T-Shirts
A Great selection of Whale Shark T-Shirts. Beautiful Giant Whale Sharks.
https://wildlife-t-shirts.com/whale-shark-t-shirts
#whaleshark #whalesharks #ocean #scubadiving #shark #diving #sharkweek #sharks #scuba #underwater #maldives #sharknado #whale #travel #sharkdiving #whales #underwaterphotography #sharklover #greatwhiteshark #whalewatching #padi #sharkconservation #whalesharkswimming

International Whale Shark Day.

#whaleshark #whalesharks #ocean #scubadiving #shark #diving #sharkweek #sharks #scuba #underwater #maldives #sharknado #whale #travel #sharkdiving #whales #underwaterphotography #sharklover #greatwhiteshark #whalewatching #padi #sharkconservation #whalesharkswimming #sharkattack #sea #whalewatch #sharky #nature #killerwhale #whaleseason

https://itsmostamazingindia.wordpress.com/2025/08/30/international-whale-shark-day/

@scubadivers Went for the season's first dive this weekend in Ammouliani, Greece, with @slomo . The water was quite cold, 17°C on average, around 18°C on surface, we measured as cold as 15°C at 25m.

We saw several Antiopella Cristata nudibranchs ♥, moray eels, octopuses, two huge Dentex Dentex, a scorpionfish, and a school of tuna.

Unfortunately I had to sit out one dive because my ear had started hurting (it's OK again now) so I missed the octopuses, the scorpionfish, and the tuna 😭

We'll upload pictures after we've processed them!

#ScubaDiving #Ammouliani #Chalkidiki #Greece #MarineLife #Nudibranch

And another set of pictures from the dive. Featuring a little Tripterygion melanurum posing for a picture, a lobster feeling curious, a yellow tube sponge making nice contrast against its background, and a biscuit sea star.

@slomo

#Ammouliani #Chalkidiki #Greece #ScubaDiving #Photography #NaturePhotography #UnderwaterPhotography #darktable

Some anemone and fanworm pictures from the dives with @slomo at the end of June. Featuring one golden anemone with purple tentacle tips, two tube anemones with fishes looking at them, and one fanworm.

#Ammouliani #Chalkidiki #Greece #ScubaDiving #Photography #NaturePhotography #UnderwaterPhotography #darktable

And another set of diving photos from the same weekend: this time fishes.

Featuring: A Mediterranean moray looking curiously out of its hole, a huge dusky grouper trying to hide between rocks, a group of greater amberjack swimming in the open water and group of a few dozen damselfish.

@vivia

#MediterraneanMoray #Moray #MorayEel #DuskyGrouper #Grouper #GreaterAmberjack #Amberjack #Damselfish #Fish #Fishes #Fishphotography #Ammouliani #Chalkidiki #Greece #ScubaDiving #Photography #NaturePhotography #UnderwaterPhotography #darktable

Some nudibranch* photos from the dives with @vivia end of June near Ammouliani, Greece.

Featuring: Two white-dotted yellow Phyllidia flava on an orange sponge, a blue-purple Flabellina affinis, a white-blue-red-orange Cratena peregrina.

And a bearded fireworm, while not a nudibranch, it also has a long shape. Do not touch, it is going to hurt a lot for hours 😱​

#Nudibranch #Nudibranches #BristleWorm #FireWorm #Ammouliani #Chalkidiki #Greece #ScubaDiving #Photography #NaturePhotography #UnderwaterPhotography #darktable

And another set of misc photos from the same dives end of May with @vivia.

Featuring: two mediterranean feather stars, an umbraculum umbraculum nudibranch on an orange sponge, a dead fan mussel completely covered in black sponge, and solitary jellyfish near the surface.

#FeatherStar #Nudibranch #Nudibranches #FanMussel #Jellyfish
#Ammouliani #Chalkidiki #Greece #ScubaDiving #Photography #NaturePhotography #UnderwaterPhotography #darktable

And some more pictures from our dive with @slomo , this time with different fishes playing around.

Featuring: A brown meagre trying to hide, a striped seabream eating surrounded by two-banded seabreams, a swarm of small fishes swimming downwards, and two painted combers kissing surrounded by several black damselfish and a dreamfish.

#Ammouliani #Chalkidiki #Greece #ScubaDiving #Photography #NaturePhotography #UnderwaterPhotography #SeaBream #Damselfish #PaintedComber #BrownMeagre #Darktable

Photos of nudibranches from our dives with @vivia end of May near Ammouliani.

Finally catching up with cleaning up photos!

Featuring: a small caloria elegans on a yellow sponge, a platydoris, nudibranch eggs in the usual nice pattern, and a cratena peregrina.

#Nudibranch #Nudibranches #Ammouliani #Chalkidiki #Greece #ScubaDiving #Photography #NaturePhotography #UnderwaterPhotography #darktable

Some pictures from our dives with @slomo at the end of May. Rainbow wrasse liked photobombing me!

There are photobombs of a moray eel, a starfish, and a lobster, plus a bonus hermit crab inside a parasitic anemone.

#Ammouliani #Chalkidiki #Greece #ScubaDiving #Photography #NaturePhotography #UnderwaterPhotography #HermitCrab #Lobster #MorayEel #Starfish #SeaStar #Darktable

And a second set of photos from our dives during the second weekend of June this year with @vivia, near Ammouliani island in Halkidiki, Greece.

Featuring: a macro photo of a mermaid's cup, a long-spined sea-urchin with a big yellow sponge in the foreground, a red volcano sponge in the middle of sand, and a red starfish showing its feet and mouth and some peacock's tail in front of it.

#ScubaDiving #UnderwaterPhotography #Photography #MarineLife #MermaidsCup #SeaUrchin #Sponge #Starfish #NaturePhotography #Ammouliani #Chalkidiki #Greece

Water Water Everywhere – Anilao

Getting Ready To Scuba Dive!

Getting ready for another adventure. I’m in the center of the “muck” diving capital of the world.

Here’s an image I captured before our first dive off the coast of Anilao in the Philippines.

Scuba diving operations provided by Crystal Blue Scuba Diving Resort.

Thanks to Jez for the daily inspiration and challenges.

Underwater images to follow!

#anilao #clouds #Nature #Philippines #photograhpy #Photography #ScubaDiving #seascapes #waterWaterEverywhere #wwe

My First Dive Trip To The Galapagos Islands

https://youtu.be/JhSJcO38-hU

For many years, I wanted to visit the Galapagos Islands, especially Wolf & Darwin. For some reason, I thought it was very difficult and expensive to get to from the New York. I was completely wrong!

My first opportunity to dive the Galapagos came in May 2018. A few month before the trip, my friend called me to say he found a last minute deal on the Galapagos Master Liveaboard. I agreed to join the dive trip and began to arrange travel.

Traveling to Ecuador from New York is so easy. We flew from NYC to Miami (MIA), switched planes and flew from MIA to Guayaquil. We planned to spend a day in Guayaquil to do some light sightseeing then head over to San Cristóbal Island to meet the liveaboard. Lucky we planed an extra day because my buddies dive gear didn’t make it on to our flight from Miami. The next day we tracked his bag through the airline’s baggage tracker app. We were relieved once it was loaded on the plane in the morning and arrived to the hotel ahead of schedule.

We spent the rest of the day randomly touring the city on foot and by taxi. I though the area was pretty easy to get around and taxis were readily available. The food was quite delicious and affordable. Guayaquil offers a few significant architectural points of interests, such as Churches, Government Buildings, Museums, and high look-out points. The Seminario Public Park (also known as Iguana Park) is located across the street from our hotel (Unipark by Oro Verde), and is host to several families of Iguanas who are quite entertaining.

A day later, we hopped on a short plane ride from Guayaquil to San Cristóbal Island to finally meet our liveaboard. Please note there were a few fees we had to pay in the Guayaquil airport (about $25) and we also paid a park entry fee (about $125) once we landed on San Cristóbal Island. While the fees were not a big deal, you have wait on line to pay them and can’t prepay online. So, I would advise to arrive at the airport earlier than normal and have cash ready.

Once at our hotel, Casa Opuntia in San Cristóbal, we were greeted by a bunch of amazing sea lions. They were everywhere you looked – on the stairs, benches, walkways, bar stools, etc. The locals treat all wildlife with a great deal of respect and they expect visitors to do the same.

https://www.instagram.com/tv/B9HKGFzBSBY

The Best Check-Out Dive Ever!

https://vimeo.com/394832364

The opening video highlights some of the cool creatures we observed during the week. Visibility was not that great when we visited so I wasn’t able to capture the greatest underwater footage. It’s ok, I just have to visit again.

We spent 10 days aboard the Galapagos Master Liveaboard. Our first stop after the check out dives was Wolf and Darwin. We spent a day and a half at each dive site. During the dives we saw plenty of Hammerhead Sharks, Galapagos Sharks, Silky Sharks and a Tiger Shark.

We spent a morning with Marine Iguanas after Wolf & Darwin. These Marine Iguanas are only found in the Galapagos and they are the only Iguanas that forage for food in the ocean.

https://youtu.be/vb8vBeh6y1Y

We also found a rare Galapagos Bullhead Shark on one of our dives. Even though this small shark species was described around 1848, little is known about this elusive creature. Its geographic distribution, life cycle and population size are still poorly understood by science. There are several organizations working to learn more about this species.

https://youtu.be/Sr4Aao0KVpw

During my trip to the Galapagos. I shot mostly video on a Gopro Hero 6 Black and photographs on a Sealife DC2000. Both with Sealife Sea Dragon 2500 lumen lights. You can see a picture of my underwater camera set up here.