Every dive gives extraordinary encounters – The Irish Instances

My journey into diving and underwater pictures started at 15, when a neighborhood dive membership hosted a Discover Scuba session in our native pool. I had all the time been fascinated by the underwater world, and my bed room was stuffed with aquariums and books on ocean exploration, however I used to be unprepared for a way immediately scuba diving would captivate me.

The thrill of respiration underwater was quickly adopted by the problem of underwater pictures after a dive buddy lent me his digital camera. I used to be hooked.

Trying to seize a picture of the marine world sparked an obsession that grew with each roll of movie, finally inspiring the images that formed Beneath Irish Seas.

People usually ask if it’s chilly underwater, however due to drysuits and trendy gear you not often really feel it, even in winter. Diving will be demanding although. Shifting climate and sea situations or poor underwater visibility usually make pictures difficult, however that’s a part of the fun of it.

Beneath the floor lie kelp forests and reefs bursting with color, sunlit waters and playful seals. Every dive gives encounters with terribly marine life.

I’ve dived all around the world, however capturing moments in our personal waters for Beneath Irish Seas has been a lifelong pleasure, a possibility to point out simply how vibrant and memorable our shoreline is.

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We put a basking shark on the guide’s cowl to symbolise how our oceans can get better if we permit them to. Ireland now hosts crucial inhabitants of this once-overfished large. Beneath Irish Seas goals to disclose this hidden world in order that, by seeing it, we could all care to safeguard it just a bit extra.

Beneath Irish Seas: The Hidden Wonders of Ireland’s Amazing Marine Life by Nigel Motyer is printed by Merrion Press