Diving's a hobby I was quite into a looong time ago when I lived in the UK - and my passion was briefly rekindled a couple of years back before I changed jobs, when I had some spare time on my hands to do a bit of diving. But it's been a while since my last dive... So I jumped on my colleague Gilbert's suggestion to try a bit of snorkling with him. He goes regularly to Cap d'Antibes after work - so I figured "why not" ?
I decided to borrow my company's work council's (not sure whether that's the correct term??) GoPro submersible camera to capture some of these underwater moments.
The snorkling was great fun. I felt like a bit of an amateur, with a rather "heavy breath" so to speak, compared to Gilbert (whose time under water at each dive seemed to be measured in minutes, rather seconds, as for me ;) ). I was a bit disappointed by the lack of underwater fauna - I saw plenty more fish during the dives. I guess it comes to the French passion for harpoon fishing, and the fact that the site is accessible from the beach. A pity - but anyway, I had a brilliant time.
Did take me a while to sort through the 1400 or so pictures the GoPro managed to capture (I had it set to a mode where it took 2 images per second) - much to my surprise there were even a few semi-decent shots in spite of the less-than-perfect visibility we had.
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