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#scubadiving

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When you wait in vain for the #traffic light to turn green 😵 ...

The #lake in the former limestone quarry near #Stromberg was created in 2015 after a groundwater vein was blasted. Thanks to this source, the water there is never colder than 8°C, even in winter...good for a proper warm-up 😉 ! And as usual, you can find funny remnants of people in such a body of #water

Picture taken by my buddy @jens_schuette in autumn 2024

@scubadivers #diving #scuba #underwater #scubadiving

May I introduce: her majesty, the #caddisfly 🪰

#RotterSee, 3m “soup” visibility, typical for #spring. A closer look reveals some funny fellows, especially at this time of the year. Camouflage is everything! Although, if you walk through the lake with one of these cases...very inconspicuous 🙈 ! Everyone has their own architectural style!

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caddisfl

@scubadivers@a.gup.pe #scuba #scubadiving #diving #tauchen #troisdorf #RheinSieg

Pictures: @jens_schuette

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What I like about diving are these unexpected moments.

Our local lake. Been there hundreds of times. You think to yourself, nothing special.

And then you experience this special light mood, this abundance of color. The shore is flooded. Just below the surface, you get unexpected insights into the beauty of nature. The good things are often so close.

This moment, captured in the fall of 2024.

#köln #leverkusen #widdauen

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@scubadivers

A Perophora namei (Blue bell sea squirt). Under water you don't realy notice the beautiful colours. It's a colonial tunicate, forming clusters of small, bell-shaped individuals known as zooids and it is a filter feeder where each zooid possesses two siphons: an incurrent siphon for drawing in water and an excurrent siphon for expelling waste. Each zooid has a faint blueish colour which gives it it's common name.

#underwaterphotography #animals #marinebiology #macrophotography #naturephotography #scubadiving