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Duxy’s Winter Warmer Photo Trip February 2015 Part Two
Read part one here.
It’s a well-known principle in underwater photography that the closer you get to your subject, the clearer your image. Because getting close is key, a minority gives underwater photographers a bad reputation for touching and damaging the environment. As a hard-core nature nerd, I’m practically in tears any time I see someone touching the coral or when I accidentally clip it myself. As a result, I was very grateful to discover that Duxy shares the same passion for the environment and during the week, really stressed the fact that the marine life comes first, and the photo, second.
Because of my fear of reef contact, I look for pictures that I can get when diving rather than looking for subjects. Duxy really pushed me to practice hovering in different body positions to decrease the number of photo opportunities I would previously have turned down.
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In my last blog post, I recounted an incredible encounter I had with a female bottlenose dolphin and her calf. I also mentioned that I had another, particularly amusing, dolphin encounter with my legendary dive buddy Tony ‘Goose’ Neal. Here it is…
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Duxy’s Winter Warmer trips are very popular and get booked up very quickly, so Scuba Travel are putting two on in 2016. Here is the link to the February one and the March 2016 one is here.
And if you can’t wait for the Winter Warmer next year check out some of Duxy’s other trips here.
Find out more about Bertie here:
Over the next 12 months, specialist scuba holiday company Dive Worldwide will be supporting Bite-Back Shark & Marine Conservation with donations collected from client bookings to any one of its stunning dive destinations around the world. The independently-owned operator expects to raise £3000 for the UK charity.
Manager at Dive Worldwide, Phil North, said: “We’re especially excited to work with Bite-Back and support its intelligent, creative and results-driven campaigns to end the UK trade in shark products and prompt a change in attitudes to the ocean’s most maligned inhabitant.”
Bite-Back is running campaigns to hold the media to account on the way it reports shark news along with a brand new nationwide education programme. Last year the charity was credited for spearheading a UK ban on the import and export of shark fins.
Campaign director at Bite-Back, Graham Buckingham, said: “We’re enormously grateful to Dive Worldwide for choosing to support Bite-Back. The company’s commitment to conservation helps set it apart from other tour operators and we’re certain its clients admire and respect that policy. For us, the affiliation is huge and helps us look to the future with confidence we can deliver against key conservation programmes.”
To launch the fundraising initiative, Phil North presented Graham Buckingham with a cheque for £1,000.
Visit Dive Worldwide to discover its diverse range of international scuba adventures and visit Bite-Back to learn more about the charity’s campaigns.
MORE INFORMATION
Call Graham Buckingham on 07810 454 266 or email graham@bite-back.com
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