As if making the System Shock remake wasn't tough enough, someone apparently called the FBI on Nightdive during development

https://piefed.world/post/780124

Night Diving in Komodo

https://youtu.be/pfzre18odHs

I spent a week aboard the Indo Aggressor based out of the Indonesian city of Labuan Bajo. During the week at sea, guests were offered daily night dives. I dived each night and saw a lot of unique critters and interesting behavior underwater. The video above highlights some of the cool moments during our night dives.

Here’s a list of the creatures featured in the video above.

I previously posted a few exciting moments during the entire dive trip here. Also, I posted a few photographs from the trip here. In a few weeks, I will post my travel and liveaboard trip report.

I find night dives interesting because you can see animals that you don’t see during the day. Below is a video playlist that hosts a few more night dives from around the world. There are a few interest clips from Roatan, St. Kitts, Raja Ampat and the Bahamas.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLiWEPZWTMPV87HXp6ka0iHdZa0EeDFhem

Here’s my underwater camera set-up.

Night Dive – Bonaire

Bonaire is a small Caribbean island renowned for its crystal-clear waters and vibrant marine life. One of the island’s most prized inhabitants is the Caribbean lobster, a spiny crustacean that can be found hiding in the rocky crevices of Bonaire’s coral reefs.

Despite their popularity as a food source, Caribbean lobsters are also essential to Bonaire’s marine ecosystem. They help to maintain the balance of the reef by feeding on algae and other small organisms and are themselves preyed upon by larger fish and sharks.

This image was captured on a night dive in Bonaire.

Fluorescent Friday : Hurghada Departure

Some creatures underwater have the ability to absorb light and re-emitted at a longer wavelength.

Using a yellow filter scuba divers can observe this awesome aspect of nature. The filter can be attached to a divers mask. Underwater photographers and videographers will also need to add a yellow filter to their camera lens to capture the light spectrums.

These underwater photography were taken during night dives in the Red Sea, off the coast of Egypt.

Here are more details about my camera set-up and approach to capturing fluorescent images during night dives.

Fluorescent Friday

https://youtu.be/Boz2sfnyIFo

I have always been intrigued by how and why some creatures fluoresce above and below the waterline.

Biofluorescence is the absorption and reemission of light from living organisms. Fluorescent organisms have proteins built into their skin or other tissues that absorb energy from light and reemit it as a different colors. This results in a wonderful display of color.

In the ocean, blue light penetrates through the water, where some organisms absorb that energy, and then emit light at a lower energy in colors such as green or red. This article from Dive Photo Guide dives into the science of fluorescence as it applies to underwater photography.

Scuba divers need special yellow filters to see the reemitted light. In addition to my normal camera set-up, I used a blue light, and yellow filters on my camera lens and on my mask. Below are the additional items I used to capture the video above.

• Sealife Sea Dragon Mini Fluoro Light
  • This light came with yellow filter for a scuba diver’s mask.
  • Since this was my first experience with fluoro diving and I was not sure how it would work. I selected a lower end mini model and was pleased with the results. However, if I have the opportunity to upgrade, I would go with the higher model that has a wider beam range. For non-photographers/videographers, the mini would suit them well.
• Tiffen Yellow Filter
  • The yellow barrier filter blocked any reflected excitation light and transmit only the fluorescence from the subject.
  • Basically, allowed me to record exactly what I was seeing through the mask filter.
  • It’s a wet lens, so I just attached it to the front of my underwater camera housing.

I shot this video off the house reef at Six Senses Laamu Resort during our first night dive there. The Laamu Atoll is located in the Maldives.

Overall, I was amazed by the color captured during the night dive. I will plan to try again on my next night dive. Hopefully, I can schedule the night dive around coral spawning. This is the time when corals colonies reproduce by releasing their eggs and sperm all at the same time. However, with a global pandemic, I’m not sure if I’ll be able to coordinate this year.

Oh my God it's even worse.

Apparently the #Nightdive Doom+Doom II release (which is problematic in-and-of itself, but not as much as their other recent releases) got a person whose code was used (hey, GPL+FLOSS and such) much money they didn't need and they invested in the company of a #fascist #misanthropic #billionare to host #doomwiki on #Amazon #aws.

HOW-LEE FUCK.

This week in weird YouTube AI ideas: Blind Playthrough - System Shock Remake

Even the AI is pushing let's play ideas on me. That said, I'd more likely play the original (or enhanced) than the remake. No idea where the thumbnails are from.

#SystemShock #Nightdive #RetroGaming