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Posted on February 3, 2006 @ 6:16 pm by massimo | Filed under: animals, blog, diving, fun, wordpress

fish feeding underwater aynaku illustration adobe

I worked as a dive master for a few months. Basically I wanted to dive for free. Truly, I wasn’t too much concerned about those training exercises and problems solving abilities, a dive master has to deal with…
So I was never happy when some excited chap asked me to go deep, looking for strenuous dives… (sharks? sharks?) At a depth of forty meters, it’s hard to take care of dive buddies, relax and enjoy at the same time, the marvels of underwater realm.
Diving in shallow waters was, on the other side, a big-great fun for me. Diving in shallow waters means low air consumption, therefore, long and easy dives; and if you aren’t in a hurry because air shortage and you haven’t any special expectation, every single detail became worth seeing, even a cute parrot-fish or a sea anemone. In shallow waters divers practice fish-feeding with small pieces of bread in their hands: maybe it’s worth saying that this spectacular and easy trick negatively impacts fishes in several ways, because the food that is fed (crust bread) is radically different from their normal diet…

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Shallow water snorkling is more my style … wonder if “Neptune sitting on his Throne” can be seen in the deep? Hheheeee, your bright golden fish glow in this setting - you look very relaxed :)

Anonymous wrote on February 4, 2006 - 10:44 am CET

I think this works well for IF - chair too. Very meditative.

Caroline wrote on February 4, 2006 - 2:06 pm CET

Neptune in his Hammock of Fish - can see them diligently holding his ‘beneath’ from the ocean floor as he relaxes in style :)

Anonymous wrote on February 4, 2006 - 3:20 pm CET

Wonderful illustration. Love the radical colors

AscenderRisesAbove wrote on February 6, 2006 - 3:51 am CET

Thanks for visiting my blog..Lovely work

Manar wrote on February 6, 2006 - 6:35 am CET

Yeah ! that reminds me the FRIDAY’S ROCK I did also that dive > U only forgot the big grey eal that lives in one of those corals and that is still greeting all the divers that explore the area> Great deep blue effect !

adventure chef gino wrote on February 7, 2006 - 1:59 pm CET

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