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TOP PLACES TO DIVE
1 San Diego
Few cities offer the incredible variety of dive sites that can be accessed from this once-sleepy surf town. Photographers can admire world-class shipwrecks and artificial reefs coated with colourful anemones, capture golden sunbeams filtering through a kelp forest, or come eye-to-eye with a sevengill shark or California sea lion – and all before 3pm. San Diego also boasts some incredible macro opportunities. Submarine canyons immediately offshore dip abruptly to depths of over 180 metres, providing a high density of marine life that is matched by few other places in California. The small marine life found here includes red and two-spot octopus, blennies, amphipods, and an everchanging army of nudibranchs.
07 The Yukon’ s smoke stack stands as a substrate for beautiful orange and pink
Corynactis and several
Metridium anemones Equipment & settings: Canon EOS 50D, Sea & Sea housing, 10 – 17mm lens at 10mm, dual Sea & Sea YS-250 strobes, f / 5.6, 1 / 30s, ISO200
SAN FRANCISCO
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MONTEREY AND CARMEL
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CALIFORNIA
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CHANNEL ISLANDS NATIONAL PARK LOS ANGELES
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LONG BEACH OIL PLATFORMS
Admire world-class shipwrecks and artificial reefs
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