My first ‘client’

Dan Bolt · Issue 63, Nov/Dec 2011 · pp. 38–41

Products mentioned: Olympus E-PL1, Panasonic 8mm fisheye, Athena mini-dome, Olympus 9-18mm, Zen dome

Earlier this year I was sat in the bar at the annual excuse to drink beer because it’s too rough to go diving called ‘Dive Fest’ in Cornwall, UK, listening to a chap giving an amazing talk about diving into a blow hole in a raging sea and coming out of it relatively unscathed. The speaker was Andy Torbet, a UK diver who’s career I’d been keenly following because I find his approach to finding new dive sites quite inspirational - indeed it was another talk of his a few years ago that prompted me in to diving my local rivers, something that has produced a number of very nice images for me. The Dive Fest is a very social event, mostly because everyone is in the bar watching the sea getting rougher and rougher, so after his talk I got chatting to Andy and he told me about his summer project called ‘Britain by snorkel’. He was planning to spend 4 months travelling the length & breadth of the …