Parting Shots

Staff · Issue 38, Sep/Oct 2007 · pp. 62–64

Products mentioned: Magic Filter, 10.5mm fisheye lens, Nikon D2x, Subal housing, Sea&Sea YS350

We had just finished our dive at “Barranco Seco II” (Los Gigantes, Tenerife, Canary Islands) and started our safety stop on a rocky arch at a depth of about 6 metres. There were several lizardfish (Synodus saurus, average size 40cm) perched on the rocks around us. They are ambush predators that remain motionless and rely on their camouflage to go undetected. The perfect macro subject, so I picked one and started taking some shots of it’s head and teeth. Andy Molloy (Los Gigantes Dive Centre) our dive guide, signalled to us that he was going up with his buddy and left us to finish our stop. Suddenly he got very excited and pointed to another area of the arch. So we went over to investigate. When we got there I was surprised to see a lizardfish had caught the tail of an Ornate Wrasse (Thalassoma pavo, average size 15 cm) on some of it’s teeth in the lower jaw. Over the next 6 minutes I was…