Sometimes unpredictable forces of
nature can turn a pleasant day of diving with a friend into a scary,
even dangerous experience. This blog post is an account of a dive
that I did quite a few years ago, a dive that did not go as well as
it should have.
It was a beautiful sunny day in early
August, and my dive buddy and I were planning an easy dive from a
rocky shore in Porkkala in Southern Finland, not too far from where I
live. It is a popular dive spot because it is usually an easy site to
dive and it is easily accessible.
Monday 28 October 2013
Saturday 12 October 2013
Salema porgy (sarpa salpa)
Salema porgy is a species of bream that
is relatively common in the subtropical area of Eastern Atlantic (coasts of Northern Africa and Spain) and in the Mediterranean. It is
also found in the Indian Ocean, in the coastal waters of South Africa
and Mozambique. It is a shoaling fish, which means that it swims in
large schools to avoid predators. Its size is 20 to 50
centimetres long.
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| This is a school of salema porgys that I spotted when I was doing some cave diving near Kalithea in Rhodes. A couple of saddled seabreams swimming in the same school also made the right hand corner of the picture. |
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