Parting Shots

Augusto Salgado · Issue 71, Mar/Apr 2013 · pp. 75–77

Products mentioned: Nikon D300, SEALX housing, Tokina 10-17mm, INON Z-240, Nikon D90, Ikelite housing, Inon Z240, Canon 20D, Ikelite DS50 strobe, Olympus OM-D E-M5, Nauticam housing

Do you have an image which has a ‘story within a story’? If so we’d love to hear from you. E mail us and yours could be the next “Parting shot”. peter@uwpmag.com Parting Shot 1 Life after death? With some pyrotechnic force, last October, two ships were sunk in the Algarve, South of Portugal, to act as diving points under the project Ocean Revival. Around the area, where the two ex-Portuguese warships, of a total of four, were going to be sunk, for the first time in the world on the same day, several small craft were complying with the established safety distances with more than one hundred people on board. Everyone was anxious for the Navy diving teams that had to do the check dive, surfaced confirming that all was well, so that the first chosen ones could get geared up and do the first dive. Although some small debris was still surfacing and the silt was still settling down, the first f…