Back to the Future

Mark Webster · Issue 62, Sep/Oct 2011 · pp. 61–75

Products mentioned: Nikon D300, Subal ND2 housing, 10-17mm FE zoom, Inon Z240 flash guns, Nikon Coolpix S3000

Some people say that you should never re-visit your past as often things are never quite as you remember them and inevitably you are likely to suffer some level of disappointment. This philosophy can easily be applied to popular dive sites which once discovered can suffer from the increased diver traffic which can take its toll changing the appearance and quality of the marine life inhabiting the site. There are many in the Red Sea which I can recall first diving in the late 1970’s which are now a mere shadow of their former glory. So where are these musings leading to? In fact they lead to our revered editor who now operates a boat charter (MV Magic) in his spare time for obsessive UW photographers like me. He recently invited me to dive a special site called the Crown Jewels in Plymouth Sound which he assured me had spectacular marine life on it. A little detective work revealed that t…