I recently took a trip up to Ponta in Mozambique and partook in some amazing dives. Our skipper knew some pretty amazing spots, but unfortunately the reef often appeared far deeper than our skills would take us. Never-the-less I had some of the best dives of my life. Since we were operating in the upper zone, we were picking off the smaller bait fish and some of the game fish who found us interesting or followed the action. The following day we found an old disco ball lying around in the Back Packers we were staying in and our creatives little minds went to work.
We attatched the 30 cm circm. disco ball to a nylon rope and suspended it off the front of our boat, whilst positition over or to the side of the reef (sometimes we drove around the reef in slow circle whilst hanging it off the back). It was suspended about 7m down. The light reflected of the ball beautifully ( and im trying to upload a pic of this ), and obviously must have resembled bait fish near the surface. Needless to say EVERYONE came to the party, and we had the best day EVER shooting from the surface and hopping onto the boat periodicly to drop off our catch and to grab a beer. It was awesome. However, I am not advocating drinking and diving. its a no no :rcard
We attatched the 30 cm circm. disco ball to a nylon rope and suspended it off the front of our boat, whilst positition over or to the side of the reef (sometimes we drove around the reef in slow circle whilst hanging it off the back). It was suspended about 7m down. The light reflected of the ball beautifully ( and im trying to upload a pic of this ), and obviously must have resembled bait fish near the surface. Needless to say EVERYONE came to the party, and we had the best day EVER shooting from the surface and hopping onto the boat periodicly to drop off our catch and to grab a beer. It was awesome. However, I am not advocating drinking and diving. its a no no :rcard