Parting Shot

Michael Collins · Issue 34, Jan/Feb 2007 · pp. 46

Products mentioned: Olympus C-5060, PT-020 housing, Magic Filter

Do you have a nice shot with a short story behind it? If so e mail me and yours could be the next “Parting shot”. peter@uwpmag.com Parting Shot Beautiful Sydney is blessed with many dive sites, ranging from the beach headlands, locations inside Sydney Harbour, and reefs along the coast and bays. One of my regular diving buddies and I decided to explore Coogee, about 20 minutes drive south from Bondi Beach. We were curious to investigate the shark nets and I had just received one of the newly released green water Magic Filters. So on a windy and overcast November morning, we waded through the gentle surf, swam out about 400m, then dropped down in about 10m of water and continued east to the shark net. Shortly after we got to the net, we found a southern eagle ray tangled in it with plastic threads cutting its flesh and scraping its skin. Visibly distressed, it raised its tail in warning w…