CUSTOMER IMAGES GALLERY ONLINE NOW. Online now is our customer images gallery. We will list our top 12 photos for you to enjoy. The first top 12 are online now!

It is planned to introduce a monthly prize and YOU will be able to vote for your favourite - YOU will help choose the winner! Have a look and see what our customers have photographed this year. Do you want to take part?...... then submit some images taken while diving with us at 'DiveSkye', by emailing them too diveskye@dive-and-sea-the-hebrides.co.uk, including your club name and trip date..

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DIVING WITH MARINE GIANTS - The Hebrides are 'acclaimed as the best marine watching destination in Europe' and Skye is at the top of the encounter list.

In water sightings of basking shark are becoming more common, but off course remain utterly unpredictable. It's an experience we consider to be lucky when it happens, but not to be expected or anticipated. Minke whale, dolphin and common seals are frequently sighted but generally elusive underwater. In September 2009, we were lucky enough to watch a pod of orca and a leatherback turtle.

Monty Halls dive's Skye while filming 'Beachcombers Cottage'. In the programme he seeks basking shark and goes on a Great Conger hunt with local marine biologist Sue Scott and he recounts as follows in his column in 'Dive - Nov 2008 - page 29';

"So I crammed in a couple of final dives on the wild northern tip of Skye on a clear crisp day. In the capable hands of Gordon and Aileen from Dive & Sea the Hebrides, I drifted slowly along the dark overhang of Conger Crevice, a vipers' nest of slate grey leviathans peering out at me, with a clicking array of lobsters and crabs alongside. Such was the drama and atmosphere of this dive that I completely ignored the cuckoo wrasse that accompanied me throughout, bustling ahead like some tour guide in a bright livery of stripes and neon shades. One of the congers took exception at being gawked at, and slithered out of its gloomy home to gently nose my camera away, with me furiously back-pedalling in a mass of gauges, hoses, bubbles and adrenaline.

I also had the good fortune to be accompanied on this dive by Sue Scott, who took a relentless series of annoyingly excellent photographs, which I will be delighted to show all and sundry when I get home. I may even mention that it was her that took them, and not me.

Maybe!"

"Thanks for a an amazing couple of days diving, undoubtedly the best I have dived in Europe!" best wishes Monty Halls

Sue Scott, Author of 'Dive's - Beast at a Glance' also joined the search for basking search and conger eels on Skye's wonderful west coast.

Interested in a trip with marine biology and photography as its focus? Drop us an email and let us know.