Scottish Basking Sharks

Dan Bolt · Issue 68, Sep/Oct 2012 · pp. 47–51

Products mentioned: Olympus E-PL1, Fuji X-S1, 9-18mm lens, 12-50mm lens, Subsea +10 dioptre

‘They’ say that every cloud has a silver lining. And so it was for me when just a few weeks after having to cancel a Maldives liveaboard holiday due to illness, I was able to fill a cancellation-space on a trip to the Scottish island of Mull to spend a week snorkelling with basking sharks. In actual fact the cloud’s lining turned out to be made of gold rather than silver because the trip in question was being attended by my friend and all round photographic genius Alex Mustard. Not re-booking the Maldives holiday was, for me, an easy choice to make as I personally think there are greater opportunities for original and captivating images in cold water marine-systems than there are in many warm water ones. I would love to know how many 100’s (or 1000’s?) of photographers visit the Maldives annually compared to the 50 or so spaces available each year during the 10 weeks that the Mull based …