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Shark Feeding Frenzy!

Dear Critters, Many people ask me ‘Aren’t you afraid of sharks?’, and as a girl who has had cancer four times in four years and who recently has been told that her condition is terminal, I have to...

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Sea Snake Mating Dance

Dear Critters, What do you fear? I’m not sure what I fear anymore. When people describe me as fearless, I have to think very hard of reasons why they might be wrong. Remember that old saying ‘What...

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Dive 282: Pink Dragon Eggs

Dear Critters, It has taken me over a week to write this post. After my buddy discovered yet another massacred and mutilated draughtboard shark, I honestly just really didn’t feel up to writing. My...

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Great White Shark Video

Dear Critters, What is on your Bucket List? Within the space of a week, I managed to cross the two biggest critters off mine: mixing with the magnificent manta rays at Stradbroke Island and playing...

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Dive 314: Stingrays at Blairgowrie

Dear Critters, I felt so privileged to share this amazing dive with two of my all-time favourite Land Critters, my best buddy LP (who shot all the most amazing bits of footage in this video!) and my...

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Video: Octopus Waltz

Dear Critters, As promised, here’s a video my dive buddy Mark ‘LP’ Jones and I filmed recently of him dancing with an octopus (literally moments after we got the chance to play with a beautiful big...

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Video: The Happy Hunter (Blue Ringed Octopus)

Dear Critters, Recently I had an extraordinary encounter with a hunting blue-ringed octopus at Blairgowrie Pier. I have encountered these adorable creatures quite a few times, though usually they are...

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Video: Spider Crab Pyramid

Dear Critters, I’ve been getting into the water a lot more lately. I don’t believe that having to give up work because you’ve been diagnosed with terminal cancer means that you just need to lie down...

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Video: Stingray Encounter

Dear Critters, Just as I turned my camera from video to stills to capture another image of the blue-ringed octopus as it hunted across the sandy ocean floor, I felt an unfamiliar black nose press...

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Video: Angel Shark

Follow Pink Tank Scuba on Facebook Dear Critters, Recently I had the most incredible weekday dive at Blairgowrie Pier in Melbourne with six other divers. The objective of the dive was to see whether we...

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Tasseled Anglerfish Gallery

*Follow Pink Tank Scuba on Facebook***Subscribe to this blog by email for updates direct to your inbox* Dear Critters, I have become completely fascinated by these incredibly difficult to detect...

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Tiger Shark Tears (article & video)

Dear Critters, Here are my reflections (both sobering and exhilarating) on my recent VERY CLOSE encounters with tiger sharks at a brilliant dive site called The Cathedral in Fiji where I celebrated my...

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Octopus Images and Videos

Dear Critters, Hope you enjoy this next instalment in my ‘Critter Collection’ images and videos gallery (scroll down for the videos). This time we are featuring the inquisitive, intriguing and highly...

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Video: Seahorse Encounter

Dear Critters, I have so many videos and photos to share with you from my dives yesterday and today at the annual spider crab migration at Rye  Pier. Today, crab numbers had begun to build – perhaps...

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Dive 251+252 Rye Pier Spidercrab Migration!

Dear Critters, The spectacular spider crab migration at Rye Pier in Australia is without exaggeration one of the highlights of my life every year! You may have seen it featured on a David Attenborough...

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Dive 253: More Spider Crabs!

Dear Critters, Even though I couldn’t find a dive buddy today, I just couldn’t resist another visit to the annual spider crab migration at Rye Pier! Spunky  Abe and the Golden Twins (my dogs Sophie...

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Dive 254 Crab Farewell

Dear Critters, Today I dived with my best buddy LP for our final chance to say goodbye to all of the lovely crabs that had survived the annual migration to Rye Pier; they are now headed back out to...

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Dive 255: This is Bliss!

Dear Critters, Dive 255 was honestly the most magical dive of my life! Though we hadn’t made plans to dive today, my buddy LP contacted me early this morning with an offer I just couldn’t refuse;...

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I Filmed a UFO!!!

Dear Critters, People often ask me if I believe in UFOs – Underwater Fabulous Objects? Of course I do! In fact, I managed to capture video footage of an extraordinary UFO on my very last dive! When my...

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Divers Image Gallery

Dear Critters, Some of my favourite underwater critters are definitely scuba divers! Most of the lovely people pictured below are my regular dive buddies, plus others I have met during my underwater...

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Angry Hungry Amazing Octopus Video

Dear Critters, Only a few minutes into Dive 591, my focus shifts from a tiny blenny fish on a pylon to the unexpected outline of an octopus about the size of a Golden Retriever  swimming behind it...

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Stingrays Gallery (Pics & Video)

*** PLEASE SCROLL DOWN FOR IMAGES AND VIDEOS *** Dear Critters, Just like sharks got an eternally bad wrap when Steven Speilberg depicted them as monsters in 1975, most people now automatically...

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Cuttlefish Images and Videos

Dear Critters, Follow Pink Tank Scuba on Facebook, Instagram and YouTube. Thank you for joining me on my ‘Scuba Vs Tumour’ adventures! I hope that you enjoy this latest cuttlefish gallery to which new...

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Gallery: Fish Images

Dear Critters, Follow Pink Tank Scuba on Facebook, Instagram and YouTube. Thank you for joining me on my ‘Scuba Vs Tumour’ adventures! I hope that you enjoy this latest gallery of pretty fishes to...

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Gallery: Nudibranchs

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Video: Baby Cuttlefish

Dear Critters, Night dive at Rye Pier. Something tiny is moving beneath an old piece of wood. Like a little yellow canary, the juvenile cuttlefish starts to fly towards the camera. Then in an instant,...

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Video: Scuba Rapid Bay

Dear Critters, It was such a privilege to travel to South Australia to meet my newborn twin great-niece Izzy and nephew JJ and to attend the wedding of Abe’s cousin Sean. Extending the trip to do...

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Gallery: Scuba Melbourne

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Video: Stingrays, Rye Pier

Dear Critters, Some dives, the magic just glides into your soul. My three buddies and I swam out just past the end of the pier into visibility so awful we could barely see each another. And we just...

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Video: Cuttlefish Encounter

Dear Critters, We drove to two piers and one backbeach, rejecting them all. Nothing in particular – I just wasn’t ‘feeling’ them. Then we arrived at Portsea Pier and something just felt right. And...

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Gallery: Scuba Philippines

Dear Critters, The first time I visited the Philippines, I travelled alone to Anilao for a brilliant 10 day underwater photography workshop in 2012. More recently, I returned to Puerto Galera with my...

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Stargazers

Dear Critters, I don’t know why, but I find stargazers hilarious – the bulldog of the sea that always tries to make itself invisible. They bury themselves with only the telltale eyeballs and the faint...

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