CMAS UWP Spain Championship

Last week took place the CMAS National uwp championship in Villajoyosa, very close to Benidorm, in the Mediterranean and we went there with Arturo and his girlfriend representing the Canary Islands. The dives were very good with clear water and a good amount of life. We had to enter six pictures in the following categories: WA with model, WA without model, Macro not fish, Mandatory macro (patterns), part of fish and complete fish.

The results were:

# Points Team Province represented

1 217 Arturo Telle Mª Teresa Rodríguez Canaria

2 206 Manuel Terán Ricardo Morer Valenciana

3 205 David Barrio Luisa Quintanilla Canaria

4 193 Marc Casanovas José Sánchez Catalana

5 186 Gabi Valls Antonio Vidal Balear

6 184 Felix Aguado J. Teresa Santos Vasca

7 173 Antonio Cirer Maria Martinez Balear

8 171 Marc Gimenez Silvia Sebastián Catalana

9 170 Juan Galamba Mª Angeles Gil Catalana

10 169 Txomin Rivera Maite Truchuelo Vasca

11 168 Jose A. García Francisco Sanchez Castilla-La Mancha

12 167 Pedro Sandoval Noemí Gutierrez Castilla-La Mancha

13 166 Manuel Calero María Lourdes Muñoz Catalana

14 162 Carlos Haro Mª Reyes Navarra

15 160 Rafael Fernandez Raquel Castello Castilla y León

16 152 Esteban Tore Marta Maldonado Andalucía

17 151 Jaime Serra María Nuria de Diego Balear

18 149 Luis Pérez Ulisses Roselló Valenciana

19 147 Luís García Almudena Angulo Madrid

20 138 Ginés Galindo Luis Tomás Murciana

21 127 Manuel Blanco Fernando García Galicia

22 125 Jordi Munar Adrián Aragunde Baleares

23 123 Arturo Vigil Iván Díaz Asturias

Best Photo in Categories:

Complete fish: Juan Galamba Mª Angeles Gil Catalana

Part of fish: Felix Aguado Teresa Santos Vasca

Macro: David Barrio Luisa Quintanilla Canaria

Mandatory macro: Manuel Terán Ricardo Morer Valenciana

WA without model: Arturo Telle Mª Teresa Rodriguez Canaria

WA with model: Arturo Telle Mª Teresa Rodriguez Canaria

Best Model: Luisa Quintanilla Canaria

PROVINCE CLASIFICATION:

1º CANARIA 422

2º CATALANA 364

3º BALEAR 359

We placed third plus best model, best macro and province champions so we are very happy specially being our first nationals

This is us with Canary Islands team member Arturo and Tete, the new Champions of Spain

The Canary Islands team with all the trophies

Our pictures (only Image size, unsharp mask 30%-1 and name):

Part of fish:

WA with model:

Complete fish:

Mandatory macro (patterns):

WA without model:

Macro:

I will post later some pics that I did not enter and some from the training days (those days when one makes the best pics.... )

These are the pics (in funny colours...) from the first three:

http://www.buceofederado.com/download/NAFO...2008_clasif.pdf

Nice pix, David. Congratulations.

How many places are there on the National team?

Alex

Nice pix, David. Congratulations.

 

How many places are there on the National team?

 

Alex

Thank you very much Alex!

There two places that are filled by the two national champions in between the world championship (Carlos Minguell 2007 and Arturo 2008).

These are some pics I did not enter:

Congratulations and Beautiful pics David. I like the second Blennie foto better. Goofy look of surprise.

Rand

Congratulations and Beautiful pics David. I like the second Blennie foto better. Goofy look of surprise.

 

Rand

Thank you very much Rand

These are some from the training days:

Luisa carrying the macro camera (we were allowed two cameras at the same time):

These tiny and hard to find shrimps were at 130ft so I did not go there during the competition in order not to use too much air for nothing:

Congratulations David. You competition guys are pretty impressive. I'm pretty sure I'd suck if I had to hand over my JPEGS at the end of the day.

So who sponsors these; Budweiser , Johnny Walker?