Thanks ! What are those creatures with all those " full curl" white horns ??

Beautiful pictures Saeed. Thanks.

Not sure which one you mean
May be the stone fish?

Great pictures. My only experience along these lines was in Guam.

Awesome pics.
Question have you ever dove with a double hose regulator where the bubbles come out behind you?
Much better for photography.

Nice pictures. If I was not so afraid of sharks I may have considered taking a few underwater pictures myself.

Wow, Saeed, you were swimming with a lot of dangerous animals and I don't mean just the sharks!

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Originally posted by OTTOMATIC:
Awesome pics.
Question have you ever dove with a double hose regulator where the bubbles come out behind you?
Much better for photography.

you mean these are still available to sport divers? I haven't seen one in 40 years or more.

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Originally posted by Grenadier:
Wow, Saeed, you were swimming with a lot of dangerous animals and I don't mean just the sharks!

I tell the kids they should never worry about the sharks in the Maldives.

And I tell them to NEVER, EVER touch anything.

Just look.

I think there are new air systems that do not even let the bubbles out.

But, they are low capacity, and won't last very long on a dive.

Years ago we had a compressor mounted on an inner tube. It had two air hoses that were about 60-80 feet long.

We used that to spear fish in water around 30-40 feet deep.

Great fun that was.

And I remember we used to use dive tanks that had nothing on them at all.

We put the regulators on - and those were not very reliable in those days, as they leaked air most of the time.

Last year I was diving with my daughter and a dive master in the Maldives.

I told him to look after her, and not to worry about me.

We were together at around 30-40 feet, when I saw some fish further down.

So I went down to video them.

After a few minutes, I looked at my dive computer and saw that I was at 115 feet, and that I would require an 8 minute decompression time.

I went up again, and joined my partners at about 45 feet.

A few minutes later my dive computer showed I do not need any decompression time at all!!

When I learnt to dive about 45 years ago, there was no diving schools here.

I met a man at a boat shop, who sold dive tanks too. He said all I need do is buy a tank and a regulator, go and stay down until the air is finished.

That is it, one becomes a diver then.

Another thing he told us was that if we dive only once a day, and use only one tank, we do not need to worry about decompression!

The funny thing we dived almost every day, furthest down we went was 105 feet, and non of us suffered any ill effects!!

As Walter keeps telling us still, brainless people do not suffer any human ailments

Great pics Saeed.

Yeah us old school divers did things a bit different. Those old horse collar BCs and a regulator and mask traveled a long way around this world with me. But I never made it to the Maldives.

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Originally posted by jdollar:

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Originally posted by OTTOMATIC:
Awesome pics.
Question have you ever dove with a double hose regulator where the bubbles come out behind you?
Much better for photography.

you mean these are still available to sport divers? I haven't seen one in 40 years or more.

I dive several . My favorite is my Royal Aquamaster, it was completely re-done.

New double hoses are now being manufactured
Check it out here:
http://vintagedoublehose.com/

Thanks Saeed. Very nice pictures

Fantastic as one would expect with Saeed behind the lens.

Thank you for sharing

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Originally posted by TCLouis:
Fantastic as one would expect with Saeed behind the lens.

Thank you for sharing

Glad you enjoy the photos.

But, I cannot take all the credit, as several of us have taken these photos.

Just like when we are on safari in Africa, I give my friends cameras and ask them to take as photos and videos as they see fit.

The outcome is literally thousands of photos, and hours of video footage.

The hard part is going through them and sorting out what I think might be of interest to our members here.

Anyone on INSTAGRAM can also see some of these, and other photos, on my account - ganyana2000.

Amazing pictures! What camera were you using?