British & Irish Underwater Photography Competition 2018

Staff · Issue 105, Nov/Dec 2018 · pp. 31–32

This competition engages the British and Irish underwater photography community in a one day competition shoot out. It is accessible to people who live and dive at different locations around Scotland, Wales, Ireland, Northern Ireland and England. The competition includes all who dive in and around England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, including the Isle of Man, the Channel Islands, the Isles of Scilly and the other 5000 or so other islands around our shores that are bounded by the Atlantic Ocean, the English Channel and the North Sea. The judges this year were Paul Colley, Damien McGuirk and Susannah Snowden-Smith. A late August/ early September on-the-day multi-location competition format reduces the travel and cost burden for competitors, whilst at the same time encouraging a level of participation commensurate with a true championship. The date for 20…