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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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Feb 6, 10     Comments Off
Strong Current

Strong Current

Good morning readers, after work yesterday I took off on the bike for a ride and near the end I crashed and burned!  It’s a section of trail that has a steep step-up and for the first time I just didn’t do it right and couldn’t get out of my cleats fast enough causing me to land right on my knee.  Our landscape here is very rough, it’s all razor sharp limestone meaning when you fall it’s usually not good.  I cut open my knee pretty good and had a very tough time getting back home thankfully Aimee came to the rescue and was able to ride the bike back home and I drove the car.  So this morning the knee is very sore, I can’t even walk on it very well meaning I will be staying home today, good times!
 
Throughout the year I talked about our strong currents we have and many readers have asked for a photo explaining this.  Well I found this one although it still doesn’t do justice, it’s like trying to shoot the wind, you can feel it but you can’t see it, current is the same way.  When our currents are running full blast it is impossible to swim into it, the only thing you can do is let it carry you and hope you can make your exit point.  I always explain current to folks as a fast moving underwater river, you can’t swim up a river and you can’t swim into current unless you pull yourself along the bottom holding onto rocks.  You can see by this photo that the gorgonion is being pushed in one direction, I shot this as I passed by as there was no way to stop.  Some of you may remember that this year strong currents kept me from shooting coral spawning, remember, that was the worst current I had ever been in. 
 
That’s about it, going back to lay down and take some pain killers!  Bye now, Barry

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