My Shots

David Fleetham · Issue 138, May/Jun 2024 · pp. 68

My Shots by David Fleetham 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 (It’s very easy. Images can be any size bigger than 20cm (horizontal or vertical) @ 150dpi saved as jpeg format and about 500 - 750 words would be fine.) I recently spent several weeks off Timor-Leste, which is situated at the top of the Timor Sea between Indonesia and West Papua, above Australia. A good amount of my time was spent offshore in search of marine mammals and we regularly ran into locally made FADs (fish aggregating devices). These were anchored in the open ocean in at least 1000 feet of water and often much deeper. Several villages would pool their resources to fund the expense of deploying an anchor system which consisted of a significant length of line along with some sort of weight. On the s…