Stingray Panic
We went out for a dive yesterday on the Henry Leith just west of Wongat Island. We always like to start out by going around the ship on the bottom to look for stingrays. We found several yesterday. Here’s one – a Blue-Spotted Stingray (Dasyatis kuhlii). (click on it for a bigger view)
It’s a poor shot, technically. But photography is not always about technique. Sometimes dumb luck saves you. I thought I had blown this shot by getting too close (and I just couldn’t hold my breath any longer). As luck would have it, when the ray jumped up my hand slipped on my canera just as I was backing (quickly) away from the critter and my finger twitched on the trigger. The resulting photo gives the impression of speed – they can move very quickly. All the more reason to be cautious when getting too close. One needs to remember that the pointy end is whipping around even faster.
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Hey, just be careful. I enjoyed alot of your sea pictures. My husband is jealous of your adventures. He had done some diving in Panama.
No worries, Ahna. I want to still be diving when I’m 100. Come with your husband for a visit to Madang. The diving is superb.
Other Blue Spotted Stingray photos.
[...] have buried themselves. It is easy to glide right over one without noticing, which is probably the worst thing that you can do. This one is just taking off after letting me get close enough to get a good shot [...]