Hi divers and snorklers!
I'm new to Thortree & this is my 1st
post. I've been diving since '93, a lot of it
in the cold waters of Baltic Sea but also
around the world.
I never dive without my camera and now I've
posted some of the best stuff on my site at
Dive photos from around the world
Cheers, FaFAndy
fafandy
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clanline
Great photos and you were lucky diving with so many.
In over 40 years of diving only came across them once and that was here in Cornwall and they made us look like swimming bricks!
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divegirl
Great pictures. Thanks for posting. I can't afford to go anywhere to dive right now, so I have to get my underwater fix through other peoples pictures.
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seahunt
Have seen schools of dolphins but never dived with them. You are lucky FatAndy. Thank you for sharing.
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fafandy
Nice you all liked my pics!
A BIG dream - I'd love to see & photograph
a whaleshark. What do you think,
what time and place I have the best chance
for that? What kind of chance 1% -10% ...
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deesmith
Those photos of the dolphins are just incredible.
On the subject of whalesharks, I can't recommend Mozambique highly enough. Stay on the beach at Tofo (just outside the delightful town of Inhumbane which is about 6 or 7 hours north of Maputo) and join Tofo Scuba for one of their daily marine safari trips (surf permitting). I have been out with them 3 times (twice in April of this year) and saw whalesharks each time. The second trip in April was particularly spectacular. Our whalesharek stayed with us for about 45 minutes - diving if people got too close, but not so deep that you couldn't follow him from the surface, and then coming back up again for another bit of communing with humans. Tiredness set in before the whaleshark had had enough of us. We also saw numerous enormous rays.
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deesmith
They seem to hang around all year. Tofo Scuba (who organise the safaris) would be able to fill you in on the details but I think they said that whalesharks have been seen in every month. They tend to be smaller than the ones seen at the Ningaloo Reef I believe. The operation at Tofo is nothing like that at Exmouth (Western Australia) - no big boats or spotter planes overhead to help with sightings. However, the guys seem to be pretty succesful at spotting the shadows with the naked eye.
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