Grouper Dive
Submitted by soupster51 on Sat, 2012-03-10 08:01
I decided to leave the guns in the gun rack and dive one of the local sanctuaries. Feb/Mar sees all the big grouper come together to spawn. We did two dives with the second dive being the best. The fish were everywhere and mostly in the 30-50kg size range. It was simply fantastic. They really blend in to their surroundings so quality photos was hard but you'll get the idea. Vis was probably about 40 metres. I spent most of the dive in amongst them at about 35 metres. There were the usual soft corals and clams as well. The pic with the divers, they were probably at least 30 metres in front of me.
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Faulkner Family
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looks great .would have been
looks great .would have been an amazing dive amongst the grouper of that size.
not a bad distance to see if them divers were 30 mtrs away.
have you tried to clear up the pics. if not have a look at the program picasa 3 , free to download and for a bastc program it works a treat.
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soupster51
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Photoshop
Tried to clear them up with 'Auto Enhance' on Photoshop. Underwater photos always seem a little harder to work with.
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Faulkner Family
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have a look at picasa3 , it
have a look at picasa3 , it worked well on ours and you just hit the button that say , do you feel lucky. then you can play with all the other settings. everyone has their fave ones but this did the trick for us, quick and simple.no harm in trying and the pics can go from ok to good
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soupster51
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Cheers
Cheers Russ. I'll check it out.
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kane
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Nice one
Looks like a top dive spot
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Paul_86
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Looks like an awesome dive
Looks like an awesome dive soupster! That ledge is crazy.
soupster51
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Cliffs
Yep a great dive mate. At least on this one we could see the bottom at about 60 metres. Some places the ledges undercut and it is dark nothingness. I've stuck my head over the edge a few times in these spots and it really freaks you out, it's like a six hundred to a thousand metres straight down.
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