Schooling Fish Safari July 2010

I have three spaces left on a charter scheduled from the 4th-11th July from Sharm el Sheikh. The idea behind this safari is to catch up with the large aggregations of schooling fish off Fisherman's Shoal (near Jackfish Alley) and try and pick up some of the action with the Oceanic blacktip sharks that come in to harry these shoals. Saying all this, this charter is not running to any "conventional" itinerary. Unlike the major operators, we will go where the action is-we aren't tied in to any package tour like schedule, so where it is good-we'll be there!

We will be using MV Orchid, and are planning to only put 10 people on a boat that normally charters with 16-so there will be plenty of room! If you are interested, please get in touch soon!

More aeroplane pictures

I shot some more pictures of the 'plane this morning early. The visibility was improved compared to last Monday, but the ambient light was still a little too dark to get the whole thing in

Shot in ambient light with a green water Magic filter. The pictures were processed in Lightroom 3 beta 2-the noise reduction features are amazing!

Sinking aeroplane slideshow!

Capernwray sinks an aeroplane slideshow from Adam Hanlon on Vimeo.

Underwater video of Capernwray Aeroplane-straight after sinking!

This is a rough cut of actual footage of G-BVOV underwater at Capernwray. It was shot on Monday 29th March 2010. The crane strops are still in place, and in actual fact, it was still being lowered onto the bottom of the quarry!

Some of this footage was used by Grenada and BBC North West on their evening bulletins.

Capernwray Diving sinks an aeroplane! from Adam Hanlon on Vimeo.

We sunk an aeroplane!

Capernwray sinks an aeroplane

On Monday 29th, my place of work, Capernwray Diving plan to sink the largest object in a inland dive site in the UK. G-BVOV a Hawker Siddley HS748 passenger airliner will slip (!) under the water. She has a 35m wingspan, and a 30m fuselage and weighs about 9 tons. We have hired the largest crane available in the area to lift her in!

I'll be on hand and in the water to catch this, both on still and video. Non diving spectators are welcome to come and see her last flight-the site will open at 10.00am and the plan is to start the lift at midday.

Sensational Seas DVD 2

REEF have just announced that they are taking pre-orders for the second DVD in the Sensational Seas series It is available to order here Shipping is expected on April 1st.

All proceeds from the DVD (which has been made using donated clips) go the Reef foundation-which supports Ocean conservation efforts.

The trailer looks amazing!

Eric Cheng's show reel of Sperm Whales in Dominica

Julian Cohen's Slideshow from Lembeh

A fantastic slide show from Julian Cohen

These were taken over a week (?) during which the participants gave up diving during daylight-diving solely at night. They were based at the "home" of macro -Lembeh These are some of the fantastic images that resulted!

Hitler buys a dive center!