My March Underwater

I completed 3 dives this month, with two at Folly Cove and one at Peirce Island. With water temperatures in the high 30Fs, these dives were fairly short but the nudis were out!

March 4 - Peirce Island (Portsmouth, New Hampshire)

Gear Configuration: Olympus OM-1 + Olympus 8mm f/1.8 PRO Fisheye

Because of the later entry, I knew the sun was going to be at a great angle for shooting wide angle, but I couldn’t have predicted the INCREDIBLE viz. We had as much viz as we could ask for and we swam over the edge, down the slope and then pretty much stayed there. The nudis were EVERYWHERE. Piles of verrucosa scattered between all sizes and colors of verrillis. One buddy pointed me to a giant dendronotus, which was great to see for the first time in awhile. I didn’t end up pulling my strobes far enough back for virtually any of my shots, but I was able to edit some nice ones. The water was very chilly, but the mild air temps and glow from an awesome dive warmed us up quickly.

This was my first New England dive with my fisheye lens and I wrote about it here.

March 10 - Folly Cove (Gloucester, Massachusetts)

Gear Configuration: Olympus OM-1 + 60mm macro lens + +20 AOI diopter

I didn’t take notes for this dive, but it was only 34 minutes and I only took a few pictures. We cruised the right side of Folly and there was simply not much out. With the cold water temperatures, we didn’t stick around very long.

March 10 - Folly Cove (Gloucester, Massachusetts)

Gear Configuration: Olympus OM-1 + 60mm macro lens + +20 AOI diopter

No notes from this dive, but it was my buddy’s first drysuit dive in the ocean, which was great! Always good to have more friends to dive with when the water is cold (which it was - 39F)!

Pictures