RickMo

I'm finding the MFO-3 irresistible. Does anyone have experience with the AOI flip/double-flip adapter? It's certainly more reasonably-priced than the Nauticam.

This has all been sold. Thanks to all!

Dave, what vendor/s do you use/prefer for your prints (or do you 3d print the whole thing!)?

Greetings! Might this be Francois, my blackwater compatriot from Villa Markisa last month?

Agreed! I would just like for someone to be using it.

Trying again here. The strobes have been sold, all else (Nauticam housing, body, lens, port, miniflash/triggers, batteries) just as described/pictured, for $1,000, buyer pays shipping/insurance.

Great Barrier Reef suffers worst coral decline on record...Reefs have been battered by cyclones and starfish that eat coral, but heat stress driven by climate change is the main cause of damage.

Will do. I've resigned myself to expecting bleaching just about everywhere, given the global mass bleaching event: Seeing images of bleaching across Cape Kri a month after we were there last fall, and saw healthy corals, was gutting. But we're both optimistic by nature, and whatever the hard coral situation the reef fish, macro life and occasional whale shark at Pemba will give us joy.

We are booked to dive Pemba next month. Going out with Afro Divers, which have good equipment and a good reputation. I'll report back.

"Embrace [the] softness" . . . My new mantra. Thanks!

To round this thread out--I've done some bonfire dives with Martijn and Mirjam, at Front Porch and Oil Slick. Basically, lights are anchored --I believe it was a set on the surface and at maybe 5m--and then we did a normal night dive for 15-20 minutes while the critters, such as the were, assembled. We never saw much in the lights, although my buddy got inked by a teeny squid; that made her night. We are huge fans of Twilight Diving Bonaire for night dives--they are both terrific spotters and guides.

Thank you, Alex. Very helpful. I was hoping you'd weigh in.

That'll be a great trip. (I meant "fully," not "folly," of course, but it kinda fits). I'd really like to get to Triton Bay and the south Birdshead (really, more interested in that than Misool, as we were on a boat down there in October).

Dave, are you staying at Misool Eco, or diving from the liveaboard? The resort is now folly booked through 2028, at least for the hoi polloi, which makes the south Raja and Triton Bay liveaboards very appealing.

Aaargh! Thanks, Bill. I’d buy it myself. Too late to edit again . . . But in case the typo’s not obvious, it’s an OM-D E-M1ii, which is still quite a good camera. Apologies to the assembled masses. (And Mods, if there’s a way to edit, please let me know) —Rick