Parting Shots

Tony "Goose" Neal & Azim Musthag · Issue 75, Nov/Dec 2013 · pp. 68–71

Products mentioned: Canon Powershot G9, Nikon D90, Aquatica Housing, Ikelite DS-161 Strobe, Nikkor 105mm, Nikon D300, Nikon D200, 10-17 FE zoom lens

Parting Shots 1 I am Tony Neal aka Tony “Goose” Neal to my friends and when my trip to Shetland with the Digigreen Group was planned two years ago little did I know that I would shoot a mating pair of Catfish Sharks and learn quite quickly all about deco and what it involves. I was aboard the MV- Valkyire and already had got four dives under my belt, any cold water diving is very hard and tires you out very quickly. The planned dive was known as “Dog Fish Alley” a 24m to the bottom depth quite straight forward. At the start of the dive it was anouced that there was thick fog and a possibility of a current we were instructed to deploy our smb’s as soon as we hit the sea bed. On hitting the sea bed and deploying my smb it was immediately apparent that there was one of those annoying currents which are not so strong that you give into them and drift, but slight enough to be able to try and …