What lures you to go night diving

[drbill]

Here are YouTube versions of episodes from my cable TV show ("Munching and Mating in the Macrocystis") that feature night critters:

[video=youtube;VU6jeX1I8sM]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VU6jeX1I8sM[/video]

[video=youtube;x5itpg4NOjA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5itpg4NOjA[/video]

 

[Searcaigh]

So many different creatures are found at night than daytime, other species change their habits.

I wish I had the same opportunity to do as many as I did when I lived in Saudi, Monday night was our night dive night from the marina next to where I lived as it was also "hump" night. Then on Wednesday nights a the start of our weekend, staying over at the beach for the superb early morning dives.

Two night dives a week were normal during 95-97, more of a challenge where I live now.

My last night dive was almost 9 months ago at Lembeh where we found lots of baby squid in the water column at the house reef.

 

[Z Gear]

Here are YouTube versions of episodes from my cable TV show ("Munching and Mating in the Macrocystis") that feature night critters:

[video=youtube;VU6jeX1I8sM]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VU6jeX1I8sM[/video]

[video=youtube;x5itpg4NOjA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5itpg4NOjA[/video]

Your video is particularly informative and use full to me because I am a Southern CA diver mainly off of La Jolla and surrounding areas.
Thanks for sharing the videos and great narrative.
I was wondering if you have ever used black/blue lighting in any of your night dives in our region. I know that in the tropical waters this is great but I am not sure what can be seen here in our waters.

Any thoughts on this?

Frank G
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[Storker]

What really fascinates me is the feeling. You and you buddy are alone in the world, and the universe consists of only what can be seen in the beam of your light, and your buddy's light out there on the left flank. Everything else is pitch dark, non-existent.

Case in point: My first night dive with a GoPro mounted on top of my camera rig:

[video=youtube_share;gAsTh6Uyz6A]http://youtu.be/gAsTh6Uyz6A[/video]

 

[Z Gear]

Case in point: My first night dive with a GoPro mounted on top of my camera rig:

[video=youtube_share;gAsTh6Uyz6A]http://youtu.be/gAsTh6Uyz6A[/video]

That was a nice comparison clip. Your video from the Go Pro was pretty nice but what I really was impressed with where the stills you got with that nice camera rig. What a difference! The way you comprised the video with the stills was really clever.

 

[Storker]

That was a nice comparison clip. Your video from the Go Pro was pretty nice but what I really was impressed with where the stills you got with that nice camera rig. What a difference! The way you comprised the video with the stills was really clever.

Thanks. It wasn't intended as a comparison, though. I'm really a stills photog, but this winter I got a GoPro to mount on top of my UW camera housing just to capture some moving images, too. Although I'm quite comfortable with post-processing my stills to get decent results, I've still got some learning to do when it comes to video editing. Also, I'm still working to find out just how much I can stretch the tonal range of the video compared to camera raw files (which can be stretched quite a bit in post before things start looking weird...).

But I have to admit I was pretty satisfied with the idea of inserting the stills after each flash and click of the camera shutter :cool2:

There's a better quality version on Vimeo, with some technical data in the video description:

[video=vimeo;121607620]https://vimeo.com/121607620[/video]

 

[KEdiver]

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