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11/06/2007: "GREY NURSE SHARK RENAISSANCE - 1988"
Tue 23 Feb 1988 Little Seal Rock. A southerly arrived at 10am. Viso 40 feet. Missed finding the gorge, anchored on top of a basin with ten 'teenage' nurses - two with hooks/lures caught in them.
Could not see a thing through the 16mm camera eyepiece. Filmed at 32 fps with zoom set at 12.5mm and 9.5mm. Focus pre-set at six feet. Exposure was mainly f4 due to a light overhead cloud cover. Opened to f2.8 for cave shot.
Wed 24 Feb 1988. Little Rock again Dropped anchor on top of grey nurse gutter. Viso 120 feet quite a contrast to the 10 viso they are having up the coast at Forster today.
Current here was running east-west and through the gutter.
Batteries went flat on 16mm movie camera preventing any group scenes of the 34 medium sized sharks.
A great dive and the best opportunity yet to photograph "The Grey Nurse Renaissance."
