Muck diving, French style

Jean-Philippe Borges & Gilles Suc · Issue 57, Nov/Dec 2010 · pp. 73–76

Products mentioned: Fuji S2 Pro, Aquatica housing, Tokina 10-17mm fisheye, Inon Z-220, Nikon 105mm AF-D macro, Canon S1, Canon housing, Sea&Sea YS-90Auto, Inon D-2000

When you speak about muck diving with other uw photographers, the same locations always come up : Lembeh Strait, Malaysia etc. Of course, most muck diving is done in Southeast Asia where there are more marine species than anywhere else in the world. Places like Mabul and Kapalai in Sabah, Malaysia, Lembeh Straits in Manado, Indonesia and Bali are the most popular because of the amazing creatures found in the muck. However there also good muck dives here in Europe but they are not well known. Moreover, some of the most interesting ones are kept hidden so as not to allow a lot of diver’s fins to affect the area. With beautiful fauna, diversity and various type of dives, we are going today to present two of them, located in the south of France with the aim of finding two things : incredible fauna and moreover some ‘Hippo’ families. There are no pygmy seahorses in European waters just two di…