Parting Shot

Phil Watson · Issue 67, Jul/Aug 2012 · pp. 80

Products mentioned: Olympus E-PL3, Olympus housing, Zen dome port, S&S YS-01 strobe, Olympus 9-18mm zoom

Do you have an image which has a ‘story within a story’? If so we’d love to hear from you. E mail us and yours could be the next “Parting shot”. peter@uwpmag.com Parting Shot In February this year my buddy Sandy Webb and I dived a site near Phillip Island, just east of Melbourne, Australia. This site is by the San Remo pier and the bridge across to Phillip Island. It is a narrow channel that leads into a very large bay (Westernport Bay). There are extremely strong tidal flows through this channel that render it undiveable except in two half-hour tidal slack periods each day. Divers have to time their dives very carefully in this channel because the current is far too strong to swim against. If you dive for too long you will either be swept out into the ocean or into Westernport Bay. Despite the currents it is a very appealing dive site. The sides of the channel are white sand, and the bo…