Parting Shot

Nigel Marsh · Issue 85, Jul/Aug 2015 · pp. 68

Products mentioned: Nikon D90, Ikelite housing, Tokina 10-17mm lens, Inon Z240 strobe

Parting Shot Do you have a shot which has a story within a story? If so e mail it with up to 500 words of text and yours could be the next Parting Shot. peter@uwpmag.com Over 30 years of diving I have seen some amazing marine animals, but one creature had always eluded me, the rare dugong. Living in Brisbane, home to one of Australiaís most accessible dugong populations, I had seen plenty of dugongs from the surface, but never underwater. These shy sea cows are very wary of divers in Australia (unlike the Red Sea it appears), and every attempt to get in the water with one has failed. Recently I was in Bundaberg, 300km north of Brisbane, for a weekend of diving as the area has some lovely shore and boat diving locations. After a couple of nice macro- focused shore dives I was looking forward to boat diving the local artificial reef, only to hear from Julian Negri from Aqua Scuba, that the…