Tuesday 7 March 2017

Deep is the New Shallow - 02/03/2017

It's a rare dive when Jester doesn't take his camera. So when he decided to liberate himself from the lens it came as a surprise to me. We had decided to do our little deep run at St Catherine's. Normally this run can take you easily down to 40m and a little beyond, but an unusually low tide meant that it would quite shallow at just over 30m.  We kitted up, buddy checked and headed down.

We saw a collection of unsurprising life - all obviously unphotographed. Then as we began our return journey we found loads of flabellina lineata nudibranchs.

"That's not unusual I here you cry!" However, they were at depths ranging from 30m all the way up to 10m. Which is highly unusual for the site as they are normally clustered around 10-15m.

It would seem deep is the new shallow!

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