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Underwater South Africa

White Remora, Protea Banks

Diep Gat - Green Coral Tree at 52 metres Friendly Potato Bass - near Mushroom Rocks, 7 mile reef Honeycomb Moray Eel, 7 mile reef Yellowmouth Moray, 2 mile reef Pristine Rose Coral, Pinnacles, 2 mile reef Humpbacked Snapper, Antons - 2 mile reef Breaking Waters - 9 mile reef. For full effect, dive at low tide. Spadefish Shoals over Antons Reef - 2 mile Moray Eel on Aliwal Shoal Yellowmouth Moray Eel, Aliwal Shoal - April 2000 Raggie Cave, Aliwal Shoal - September 1999 Loggerhead Turtle - Aliwal Shoal, April 2000 Spotted Ragged Tooth Shark - Aliwal Shoal, September 1999 Anemone or Nudibranch. Please lell us if you know what it is. Orange Nudibranch - Found under Tapas Jetty, Knysna Lagoon Baby Puff Adder Shy Shark (Dogfish) curled up to protect himself from us (potential threat). He'll uncurl and swim away when we disappear. Commonly found outside the Knysna Heads Common Octopus in self built hole - Found at Featherbed, Knysna Lagoon The Endemic Knysna Seahorse - Found under Tapas Jetty, Knysna Lagoon Puff Adder Shy Shark, Knysna - Bruce Se Bank Young seal baring his teeth perhaps in play or is it mock agression? Charlie amongst the seals at Partridge Point Young seal at Partridge Point, False Bay Gas Flame Nudibranch - Bonisa nakaza on the Good Hope Rock Lobster surrounded by soft corals on the mast of the Good Hope Rock Lobster on the mast of the Good Hope A seal trying to stop himself floating to the surface - Partridge Point, False Bay Inquisitive Seal at Partridge Point, False Bay Spot the copper shark (bronze whaler) silhouette amongst the dolphins? The calm and composed professional photographer shooting a bronze whaler shark while breath hold diving... This time I am trying to get the shot of Charlie swimming down, of sardines forming a perfect circle around her This shot was included to show what darkness the ceiling of sardines creates. Charlie's breath runs out for this photo and she returns to the surface..much to Mark's frustration. "...freediving through the sardines, they part and form a spinning cylinder around Charlie. "...their graceful choreography complemented by a writhing ball of silver..." A lucky chance to photograph Humpback whales. Mark had a near miss with a pectoral fin a minute before this shot was taken. These common dolphins were moving at about 30kph A few of the 1,000 plus common dolphins charging north in the hunt for sardines.