Parting Shots

Staff · Issue 41, Mar/Apr 2008 · pp. 74–76

Products mentioned: Nikon D50, Ikelite housing, Inon Z240 strobe, Nikon D3, Nikon D2X, Canon 1D Mk3, Canon 5D

Parting Shot 1 Slovene part of the Adriatic has only 2 or 3 diving spots on its 42km shoreline. In Fiesa bay there is a small reef from 5 to 10m depth in its length approx 700m. Beside that only a flat seabed of sand and mud descending slowly to max 20m. A group of divers decided to enrich a bit this kind of environment. First we placed some concrete cubes on the seabed and they were populated immediately. Encouraged by this experience we started to plan further developments. One of the friends succeeded to put hands on a 7m sailboat which laid abandoned in a local marina and its managers wanted to get rid of the boat. There was an intention to obtain all the approvals needed to sink the boat as an artificial reef in the Fiesa bay, but it became evident that this procedure would last virtually forever. The best thing to do was to act an accidental sinking of the boat being on tug just on…