A dive into the Red Sea through some interesting cave features.




Some fuzzy standard GoPro imagery of a monofin lady with accommodating pairs of dolphins and rays.

Some radical entries in National Geographic's 2011 Photo Contest:


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Lots more where these came from at: http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2...t-2011/100187/

"Extraordinary and beautiful examples of toroidal vortices produced by dolphins, beluga whales, humpback whales, volcanoes, hydrogen bombs, and man.

Thrive Movie (in depth look at the true power and relevance of the natural toroidal shape):
http://www.youtube.com/user/ThriveMovement
http://thrivemovement.com/ "


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Helicopters, microbursts, breaching cetaceans, lots of things cause toroidal vorticis flow in fluids
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vortex_ring

A few shots from spring country from New Year's weekend.


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Imagery from a recent FII Free Diving Camp in Kona, Hawaii. Included is an overview of some free diving devices including:

- underwater synthesizer for human-dolphin communication
- GoPro HD/HD2 underwater housing rated 160 meters
- home made fluid goggles

An interesting video starring Guillaume Néry, in and out of the water.



"The Sportlife Saga is about three elements of nature; water, ice and snow.
The story of the element water is told by Guillaume Néry, world champion in freediving

https://www.facebook.com/sportlifechewinggum
http://www.sportlife.com

Video production: EyEFORcE
Agency: Indie Amsterdam
Sound design: Paraphrase

Songs:
Egadz -- Take your time
Splendid -- Nobody move"


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Patrick Rynne sent me the link on this video prepared by Michael Buckmaster. It looks like a GoPro was clamped onto the leading edge of a shark's dorsal fin at Tiger Beach. Here is a good way to get a shark's eye view of the Beach and denizens therein.

An octopus grabs this guys camera while it is shooting video, then latches on to his speargun. True cephalopod drama worthy of a Lloyd Bridges episode. The octopus is pretty miffed judging from all that red in the clip.

"while trying to get video of a wild octopus, it suddenly dashed towards me and rips my shiny new camera from out of my hands, then swims off, all while the camera is recording! he swam away very quickly like a naughty shoplifter. after a 5 minute chase, I placed my speargun underneath him and he quickly and curiously grabbed hold of the gun as well, giving me enough time to reach in and grab the camera from out of his mouth. I didn't feel threatened at all during the whole ordeal. he seemed to be fixated on the shiny metallic blue digital camera. the only confusing behavior was how he dashed off with it like a thief haha. cheeky octopus.

songs by: Vincent Gillioz - Car Chase
Dalmatian Rex and the Eigentones - Octopus I Love You

thanks for watching, and remember life is too short to spend it in front of a tv or at the shopping mall......get out there and live it up! these moments of beauty exist every single second in nature.

love,
vic

2 excellent dive shops in Wellington, New Zealand:
http://www.ibdivers.co.nz
http://www.splashgordon.co.nz"

I hit the Spiegel Grove off Key Largo on Saturday. Visibility and light were a bit lower than I would have liked ranging from 30 to 60 ft. over the two dives. Still, using the GoPro HD2 I came out with some useable results.


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The goliath grouper or jewfish is looking kind of testy and is about to bolt popping his swim bladder.



A short unprocessed clip free diving down to the grouper off one of the aft cranes on the Spiegel Grove.


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CNN goes free diving off Cayman, brings back photos ...


"One deep breath: Pushing the limits of freediving

Off the coast of the Cayman Islands this week, Logan Mock-Bunting photographed an international freediving competition and witnessed iron-lung athletes break breath-holding records. An experienced freediver, he shot the underwater event without an air tank."



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Walking a fine (descent) line near the abyss.


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Not sure what is going on here but it doesn't look too good unless it is a training exercise.


More images at: http://cnnphotos.blogs.cnn.com/2012/...of-freediving/


You can checkout still more images from Logan Mock-Bunting at his website:
http://loganmb.com/


The competition was "Grand Cayman 2012- Deja Blue III"

http://www.performancefreediving.com...TER_WEB-21.jpg


http://www.performancefreediving.com...deja-blue-iii/