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Avid outdoorsman and underwater photographer, Barry Brown has spent the last seven years documenting life above and below water in Curacao, Netherlands Antilles. Focusing on the island's coral reefs, he has worked hand-in-hand with several businesses and environmental groups, including SECORE, a marine conservation organization based in the Netherlands. His image of a research submersible was recently featured on the cover of DIVER magazine.

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Jun 26, 09     Comments Off
Sting Ray

Sting Ray

Good evening from Curacao.  Today brought another first my way.  After doing around 1000 dives on our reef here I finally went down today with my friend Marco to our very own Tugboats!  I know a few of you like Gordy and Arjan are reading this and saying “geez Barry it’s about time” but I thought or I was told they were deeper than what we did today.  Yes these wrecks are deep around 53 meters or 160 feet but today I did what I have wanted to do for so long and finally got to see them in person!  Marco signaled to me and asked if everything was OK and I signaled back he then pointed down at the base of one of the two tugboats and there laying on the sand was a giant sting-ray!  He was so beautiful and I was so unprepared!  I really didn’t plan on being able to go this deep so I brought the wrong lens, it wasn’t even close to being wide angle enough to get the whole scene in but next time I will do better.  At this crazy depth you can only stay for around 3 minutes, that doesn’t give me much time to do much of anything so it’s going to have to be one photo well thought out per dive.  The downside to these deep dives is that you go down as fast as you can, soak up the sights for just a few minutes and head back up, no messing around so they are very fast dives.  Marco and I are going to go again next week and I should be much better prepared and hopefully we will get some nice crystal clear water as well unlike today.
 
Many of you have written saying that you could not find the June issue of Sport Diver as it has already been replaced by the July issue or was sold out.  I think you can get back issues from www.sportdiver.com I will check into it and let you know, but thanks for looking.
 
The two puppies are doing great!  Aimee just got home from walking around the neighborhood and putting flyers in all the mailboxes in hopes of finding these two good homes.  The puppy that left is adjusting well to her new home and we are so happy for her and very thankful for the help we are getting thru CARF.
 
Have a great weekend, see you tomorrow, Barry
26-06-2009

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