Malta Wreck Photos

[bottlefish]

I've just finished touching up a selection of diving photos taken during a trip to Malta a couple of weeks ago, you can see the results here:

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?ai...d&id=503848551

The majority of the shots are of the HMS Stubborn, a WWII submarine scuttled off the coast of Malta in around 58 metres of water. The last few are of the HMS Maori, a WWII destroyer sunk in Valletta Harbour, Malta, on Feb 12th 1942 in 12 metres of water.

The photos were taken by Paul Toomer, using a Nikon D60 with fisheye lens in a Sea and See housing. I was on video for the Stubborn, using a Sony HC-7in Gates housing, Leigh Walker-Howarth looked after the video on the Maori.

The trip was put together to compile a pilot/show reel for a documentary we are planning to shoot in August and September. The footage is being worked on at the moment, I'll post a link once it has been completed and ready for viewing.

We've set up a web site to let people know how we're getting on (www.squidkid.com), you can also keep track of us in the following Facebook group.

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=26241736728

Cheers

Stu

[KiwiMagic]

I particularly like the submarine ones. (er .... hold on, are they all Submarine photo's?)

Doesn't look like visibility was "Stony Cove"ish. Oh how I miss 20m+ vis.

What was the submarine? and the other wrecks names? Thinking of seeing if I can organise MOD2 there, so would be interested if these are do-able on normoxic mix.

KM

[deepbull]

the viz was not so good in November 2007 on HMS Stubborn








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[KiwiMagic]

Originally Posted by deepbull

the viz was not so good in November 2007 on HMS Stubborn
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What, only a measly 15m?

[lud228]

Nice pics well done. May I ask you what photographic equipment you have? the quality is really good.

lud

[Mark Powell]

Great pics, I'm over there next week for an Advanced Trimix course and will be doing HMS Stubborn amongst others so it's nice to get in the mood!

[purple vonny]

Those are great photos!

[bottlefish]

Originally Posted by KiwiMagic

I particularly like the submarine ones. (er .... hold on, are they all Submarine photo's?)

Doesn't look like visibility was "Stony Cove"ish. Oh how I miss 20m+ vis.

What was the submarine? and the other wrecks names? Thinking of seeing if I can organise MOD2 there, so would be interested if these are do-able on normoxic mix.

KM

The Sub is the HMS Stubborn, you're hard pressed to get below 58 metres, so well within normoxic range - we did it on a 20/30 mix.

The other wreck was the HMS Maori, in just 12 metres of water... a bit over kill on twins, but we got blown out of anything decent, there was no way we were going to let the gas go to waste!!

[bottlefish]

Originally Posted by lud228

Nice pics well done. May I ask you what photographic equipment you have? the quality is really good.

lud

Paul was using a Nikon D60 with a fish eye lens in a Sea and Sea housing. We had ideallic conditions: no current, minimal sea, no wind and clear skies, so plenty of natural light, the shots were taken at ISO 400, shutter speed priority at 1/60th.

[bottlefish]

Originally Posted by Mark Powell

Great pics, I'm over there next week for an Advanced Trimix course and will be doing HMS Stubborn amongst others so it's nice to get in the mood!

Hope you get the same conditions that we had, couldn't have asked for better (for the first two dives, atleast!)

What "others" are you planning?