Yesterday the Dive Action boat Aqualibrium was busy, with three dives taking place on a flat False Bay in around 10 meter visibility. The first launch, at 8.30am,  headed out to the Smits wrecks, and spent close to an hour on the wrecks, with divers reporting good viz but quite a bit of surge on the bottom, despite the flat surface conditions. The second launch headed out to Roman Rock, where again the visibility was a good 10 meters. The third dive of the bay took place at around 2pm on the Barge in the Simons Town Bay, were the Inspiration rebreather students got their first taste of diving in the ocean on a rebreather.

Underwater photographer Ken Strickland was on board experimenting with one of Alex Mustard’s ‘Magic Filters’. The magic filter enables one to shoot at depth without strobes and still reveal the colour of the subjects - in essence they add in the colour that has been lost from the light as it moves deeper into the water column. Hopefully Ken will send some of his images through so we can get a better feel for the ‘real’ colour of the reef at depth.