My Shot

Richard Byrom · Issue 133, Jul/Aug 2023 · pp. 66–67

Products mentioned: GoPro

Do you have a favourite shot or an image/s which made a dive special. E mail yours with some text to peter@uwpmag.com and yours could be the next My Shot/s Since acquiring a rebreather 3 years ago I now spend most weekends diving in the English Channel. Predominantly I dive out of Eastbourne and Brighton on wrecks in the 40m+ range most of which have been downed in WW1 and 2. Although I’m more interested in the wrecks, I’ve become very well acquainted with the marine life that inhabit these artificial reefs and normally take my GoPro along to capture the experience. I mostly encounter lobster, spider crabs, edible crab and conger eels. Fish species are mainly Cod or Pollock. I use my GoPro footage as a dive log and try to tell a story as well as capture something that is unique. On the day I captured this footage I was diving a British cargo Ship that was torpedoed during WW1 located abo…