This was a dive organized by Tony Reed and advertised on Facebook. It resulted in a threesome dive with Zoe.
Diving on the Budleigh Reef is a stunning UK shore dive by day and an excellent night dive. Sadly the video just does not do it justice. The human eye can see far more than the video camera, in the poor lighting! The amount of life that is around at night is stunning and of course it is not the same as daytime diving. So please be patient with watching the video, I did cut out the very boring bits!
The reef is between 8 and 10 minutes swim out from the shore running more or less parallel with the shore. One of the nerve racking times for the lead diver as there are a few gaps in the reef and there is always doubt in the back of ones mind that you have swam in the gap a missed the reef.
On this dive we saw Dover sole, turbot, cuttle fish, spider crabs, edible crabs, star fish, pipe fish. not forgetting bib and pollock just out of range of the camera lights.
Zoe really likes to get close into the sea life and it is Zoe who is stroking the Dover sole at the start of the dive over the sandy bottom on route to the reef.
If you have never tried a night dive go with an experienced night diver and try it!
To view the video in a separate screen on the YouTube site click on the link:Night Dive on Budleigh Reef
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