Blackwater bounty

Mike Bartick · Issue 106, Jan/Feb 2019 · pp. 58–63

Products mentioned: Nikon D500, Sea & Sea housing, 60mm macro lens

It’s late in the evening and with hardly any moon to speak of, but instead of thinking about sleep, were thinking about diving, not just any dive though, blackwater diving. Jumping into the open ocean at night certainly isn’t for everyone. Just the mere thought of diving in open ocean can sometimes create a bit of anxiety with some divers, adding in the caveat of diving in the open ocean at night and it positively spooks them. Blackwater diving is not your typical night dive and were not heading to the bottom to explore the sand. Infact the bottom is the last place you would want to find yourself on an open ocean dive like this, exploring however is what BW diving IS all about. Blackwater diving is an advanced style of diving that is done well off shore, over deep water and away from any structure. The target subjects on a dive like this are planktons. Each evening as the sun sets, the p…