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Have you guys heard that they discovered a new species of angler fish in Nelson Bay? I think it's Dave Harasti's find, but I'm not sure, could be some of the other locals who first found it. New South Wales: Something's a little fishy in Port Stephens

Yeah, there were two of them there, I think they have been there for quite a while, but the camera wasn't too steady at the start of the clip when you could see both so it got chopped. That's why I enjoyed diving with this oldtimer who has been in the area for years. He's happy to take anybody...

I was disappointed with Coffs. Jetty dive was big and professional looking but I didn't get an overall great feeling from them, there was lots of confusion up to and during the first dive, and both days the weather conspired against us and we never really saw any great sites. That's just luck...

Nice videos, thats quite a current on the drift! Here's a mashup from a few different dives at Nelson Bay, Fly Point and Halifax. All with rather unpleasant vis but you just have to look harder to see all the cool stuff there is to see. That's going to be it for me for a while, my gear is...

Hmm, why not just let one thread spool out eternally like the general "where did you dive today?" discussion? It would make it easy to subscribe, easier to find, and maybe more fun to look back in the history without having to jump through different threads? I've got a new video (not quite...

I got this thing since I don't have a normal weight scale in the first place and travel often enough (cameras, laptops etc) I always stress about how much checkin and carryon weight I've got. Balanzza Surprisingly it works really well. I was a bit disappointed at first since I tested it...

I've heard good things about Yongala Dive in Ayr, and it's only 30 minutes boat trip rather than 2-3 hours from Townsville so the chance of missing your dive due to getting sick seems to be a lot lower. Unfortunately cyclone season is going to prevent me from finding out... one for the...

And as far as Aussie diving goes, Townsville has been a complete disaster for me. I don't recommend ever using jetabroad.com for flight bookings, I got screwed on my flight up here. Then I made my own last minute rebookings to get up here, only to have the whole trip cancelled due to weather...

Canon HF100 with a Raynox 5050HD wide angle lens (dry) Ikelite 6090 housing + larger flat port to make room for the Raynox. If you are familiar with these Canon cameras its shot in FP24 & Cinemode, edited in Vegas. The rough project is 1080p, but I render it out to 720p. Earl

I use an HF100, rather similar to the HG20, and I've opted for a dry Raynox 5050HD lens on the camera, with an ikelite flat port addon to the housing to make room for it. Fish, Rock, Cave. on Vimeo Sometimes I wish I had wider :-) It does vingette so I try to remember to zoom in a little...

Interesting. None of these services have the resources to actually look at each case from a legal standpoint, they're just trying to A) follow DMCA guidelines so they don't get in legal trouble and B) keep us happy. I'm sure it's not easy. I did notice that Youtube now has an audio stream...

I may punish myself a bit by keeping an eye on things here :-) And I'll miss a lot of stuff. But not Telstra.

Thanks! Lots of the divers I meet around here are twice my age, maybe I generalize too much :-) The cave needed to rock. I'm off to Townsville tomorrow, for 4 days on the MV Sea-esta, for better or worse. I'm mainly hoping for a shot at the Yongala on the last day but that's far from...

Well I've got 2 hours left to get in on this thread. One thing I'm not going to miss about Australia is the internet. Fish, Rock, Cave. on Vimeo The soundtrack might not be for everyone, so for the cave segment you might have to turn the vimeo volume down and play some Michael Bolton or...

Bad luck! I lost a camera on a GBR trip. Luckily (kindof) I was already working myself up to an upgrade. I use a lanyard now to keep the $2000 kit attached to my person.

Had a nice night dive Friday night, lots of little guys to see at Fly Point, group was a bit big as I was just tagging along with a Pro Dive crew but it was still good despite low vis, lots of big decorator crabs on the red corals (gorgonians?). Saturday I spent most of the day editing my...

Interesting. I just did a night dive last night and didn't bring the camera since I haven't got video lights. First I looked at these Pro lights, then I saw a used HID setup in the buy and sell here, and then I scared myself by pricing out the L&M Sunfire 1000 lights. Is there any rating of...

-what do you personally do for white balance? any neat tricks? -what do you think are the top 3 things that a beginner does wrong that can ruin otherwise great shots? From my short experience - AWB, camera shake, too much panning. I watched the crew videographer on my last liveaboard, and...

I'll give you that - I've only personally tested one copy and maybe the majority work better. But it wasn't like it was working fine and failed once, it's horribly sluggish all the time which makes it really uncomfortable to use underwater when you could rather use those extra 6 seconds doing...

Here in Australia they are affectionately known as "budgie smugglers" or "lolly bags", and it's pretty much a standard bit of dive gear. But only old dudes and europeans wander around at length in just speedos.