Red Sea Relish

Andy Deitsch · Issue 61, Jul/Aug 2011 · pp. 35–38

Products mentioned: Canon 7D, Tokina 10-17mm, Nauticam Housing, INON Z240

tides so as to reduce the currents divers typically experience when diving the Thistlegorm. While we did experience mild currents on several dives, the currents became weaker over the 3 days and we were fortunate to have a couple of dives with absolutely no current. On one dive we not only had no current we also had no other divers in the water so we had the entire wreck to ourselves making it much easier to get shots without divers and their bubbles. The second phase of the trip was spent diving on the reefs around the Ras Mohammed National Park and in the Strait of Tiran. During this part of the workshop we learned among other techniques, how to get a good color blue in the water, how to compose a photograph to show depth and how to use the sun to get nice sun rays as well as silhouettes. Most days consisted of a morning diving, mid-day dive and late afternoon dive. After each dive, ev…