Go Gozo

Peter Rowlands · Issue 79, Jul/Aug 2014 · pp. 59–63

Products mentioned: Panasonic GX7, Nauticam housing, 14-42 power zoom lens, INON UWL100 wide angle lens and dome, Stix buoyancy floats, Original Magic Filter, Olympus system

Before we start I must emphasise that I paid for this trip myself and was not offered nor did I ask for any discounts from anyone. OK. Read on. Little did I realise when, in January, I booked this trip with Pete Bullen of Oceanfoto on Gozo that these dives would be some of the first I would be doing this year. Such were the relentless winter storms that I did not dive in the UK from mid December to mid April and even then the viz was shocking! My wife Debbie and I had chosen mid May to visit Gozo with its combination of rising temperatures but prior to the busy full on holiday season. The water temperature was a cool 18°C which for me is borderine between semidry and dry but I decided on the semidry and only felt slightly chilly towards the end of an hour long dive. This soon faded away when I emerged into the Gozitan sunshine. Pete Bullen is an accomplished ex pat underwater photographe…