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Old 09-06-2008, 00:37   #7 (permalink)
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Not exactly without a camera, but it might as well have been.

I booked on a double boat dive at a place called Magic Point which is off Maroubra Beach one of the south eastern suburbs of Sydney. It has a small cave which is frequented by grey nurse sharks (sand tigers/ragged tooth sharks). As it was a double dive I cam prepared with a spare battery for one of the strobes.

We got to the site and it was calm as and the visibility was around 15 metres. I was excited. We jumped in the water and I turned the camera on and tested it (as I normally do). To my horror, the strobes wouldn't fire. If I jiggled the sync cord I could get them to fire, occasionally, but most of the time they would not fire.

We went to the cave and there were 6-7 sharks there, I had a camera, but the light just wasn't good enough for available light shots - although I took a few. And I had 2 dives at this site.

This was the best shot I managed to get.
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