Some days it all comes together on a dive; the shallow caverns, swimthroughs and underwater rock falls swarm with fish, the light is just right, the camera behaves and your buoyancy is perfect and you can hover in the blue light and take pictures that really look like what your eye sees. Sunday was one of those days, a flat calm early summer sea, clear water and perfect diving conditions here on the Aegean.

We’re diving with Active Blue Dive Centre out of the Ephesus Princess hotel in Kusadasi, these pictures are taken on Pamucak Reef and Kamil Cavern which are easy dive sites accessible by a short boat trip and on this occasion we were diving with a visiting dive master, a newly qualified open water diver and an unqualified novice on his first real dive.

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