Parting Shot

Jean Michel Machefert · Issue 96, May/Jun 2017 · pp. 68

Products mentioned: Nikon D2x, Aquatica housing, Nikon 10.5mm lens, Nikon SB910, Patima housing

often a lot of seals (most often the yearlings who are whiter and smaller than the adults who are darker with grey or brown dots) are queuing to enter the sea and to observe the boat and divers even before they jump into water. As soon as you are in the water your only preoccupation is to approach the first seal looking at you like a bottle on the surface. Even if you try to look friendly with your camera, your tanks and dry suit, most of the time the “bottling” seal disappears quickly under the surface. This is time for you to dive… The bottom near the shores of the rocky islands is often covered with kelp and shows quite numerous canyons and small cliffs sometimes covered with dead mens fingers, some urchins and also lobsters and crabs hidden in the gaps between boulders. This is interesting but you are sure to be in the middle of hundreds of seals looking at you… you are here to meet …