Getting Wrecked

Mark Webster · Issue 3, Dec 2001 · pp. 42–45

Products mentioned: Nikon F90X, Nikon F801, 16mm fish eye lens, Subal housing, YS120 flash

Wrecks in both temperate and tropical waters are exciting to dive and will produce many picture opportunities. Most photographers will yearn for that “big” shot, of all or part of a shipwreck in clear water and under the right conditions these shot are attainable. But all too often these ideal circumstances elude us and so you must first learn to recognise and accept the limitations which present themselves on each dive. Unless you have exceptional luck, visibility in British waters is rarely good enough to show large sections of a wreck so you must be prepared to tune your techniques to suit whilst perhaps saving your panoramic shots for those wrecks in the tropics. In the UK it may be best to limit you efforts to illustrating particular details of a wreck or close focus images of a diver examining wreckage. Wrecks are often a magnet to marine life and can make fantastic macro dives whe…