Pink Tank Scuba

Gallery: Turtles

https://pinktankscuba.com/2024/08/15/gallery-turtles/

International UW Photography Award Winning Images Scroll for details of more than 25 underwater photography Awards achieved. Summary of Awards RANK SUMMARY: 2018: VICTORIAN COASTAL AWARD for PLAN...

https://pinktankscuba.com/2023/10/12/gallery-awards/

Gallery: Showcase of Images This Image Showcase is always evolving. Feel free to also check out some award winning images.

https://pinktankscuba.com/2023/10/12/maldives-2023/

Feature Articles & Reviews Below is a sample of feature articles and reviews authored by PT (aka ‘Pink Tank Scuba’). Image credits accompany each article. You can access a more comprehensive ...

https://pinktankscuba.com/2023/09/20/feature-articles-reviews/

‘Pink Tank Scuba’ Column (Dive Log Australasia magazine) Always commencing with ‘Dear Critters, I have a confession to make …’, ‘Pink Tank Scuba’ is an intensely personal 2-3 page c...

https://pinktankscuba.com/2023/09/20/pink-tank-scuba-column/

Portfolio of Articles This page features a comprehensive sample of articles authored by PT (aka ‘Pink Tank Scuba’). This selection includes feature articles which focus on dive destinations a...

https://pinktankscuba.com/2023/09/19/folio-of-articles-published/

‘Diving With …’ Hall of Fame (Scuba Diver ANZ print & online column) In the monthly ‘Diving With …’ 2-3 page column in Scuba Diver ANZ magazine (print and online editions), PT shares ...

https://pinktankscuba.com/2023/09/15/3712/

Gallery: Leafy Seadragons

https://pinktankscuba.com/2017/11/21/gallery-leafy-seadragons/

At the start of every dive, I make a wish for the critter I would most like to encounter and frequently those wishes come true. But on one dive I dared to make the ultimate wish: ‘Something I h...

https://pinktankscuba.com/2017/10/21/extremely-rare-fish-find/

Gallery: Fish

https://pinktankscuba.com/2017/03/20/gallery-fish-images/

Gallery: Cuttlefish If you are looking for the FULL STORY and video of the cuttlefish that invited me to die with it, here’s the link to that blog post about My Most Extraordinary Encounter. h...

https://pinktankscuba.com/2017/03/17/cuttlefish-image-gallery/

Gallery: Rays http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fi54VaGo8og?rel=0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbWe4HCiPLc?rel=0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eH5mKEwWPXk?rel=0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIm...

https://pinktankscuba.com/2017/02/15/stingrays-gallery-pics-video/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwhsA6FvrVo?rel=0 Dear Critters, Only a few minutes into Dive 591, my focus shifts from a tiny blenny fish on a pylon to the unexpected outline of an octopus about ...

https://pinktankscuba.com/2017/02/01/angry-hungry-amazing-octopus-video/

https://pinktankscuba.com/2017/01/18/divers-image-gallery/

Gallery: Spider Crabs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlwcBrFy__Q?rel=0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRzxEKtaA6E?rel=0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kotd1sM5uCI?rel=0 http://www.youtube.com/wat...

https://pinktankscuba.com/2016/06/18/spider-crabs-videos-and-images/

GALLERY: Octopus Images and Videos http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwhsA6FvrVo?rel=0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrqBB4wKPyA?rel=0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VINt27cRr6Y?rel=0 http://www.yo...

https://pinktankscuba.com/2016/02/11/pink-tank-scuba-octopus-images-and-videos/

Dear Critters, Here are my reflections (both sobering and exhilarating) on my recent VERY CLOSE encounters with tiger sharks at a brilliant dive site called The Cathedral in Fiji where I celebrat...

https://pinktankscuba.com/2016/01/27/tiger-shark-tears-article-video/

Dear Critters, Today I must share with you the story behind one of the most extraordinary critter encounters I have ever experienced. “Make a wish,” I invited my dive buddy Ruth as we entered...

https://pinktankscuba.com/2015/08/31/my-most-extraordinary-marine-animal-encounter/

*Follow PINK TANK SCUBA on Facebook***Subscribe to this blog by email for updates* Dear Critters, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BD7VX27C4ok?rel=0 MOVE OVER NINJA TURTLES – there’s a New Ninj...

https://pinktankscuba.com/2015/08/05/move-over-ninja-turtles-theres-a-new-ninja-in-town/

Gallery: Seahorses

https://pinktankscuba.com/2015/07/28/seahorse-image-gallery/

Follow PINK TANK SCUBA on Facebook! Dear Critters, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fi54VaGo8og?rel=0 As someone who has been diagnosed with terminal endometrial cancer, this year is all about tick...

https://pinktankscuba.com/2015/07/01/spider-crab-moults-shell-then-is-devoured-by-massive-stingray/

Whyalla Annual Cuttlefish Aggregation   Each year when the water temperature begins to drop, thousands of giant cuttlefish (also known as sepia apama) make their way into the shallows of the rem...

https://pinktankscuba.com/2015/05/22/videopix-giant-cuttlefish-of-whyalla/

Follow Pink Tank Scuba on Facebook Dear Critters, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKxHp_WRVGE?rel=0 Recently I had the most incredible weekday dive at Blairgowrie Pier in Melbourne with six other ...

https://pinktankscuba.com/2015/05/08/video-my-vanishing-angel-shark/

Dear Critters, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eH5mKEwWPXk?rel=0 Just as I turned my camera from video to stills to capture another image of the blue-ringed octopus as it hunted across the sandy o...

https://pinktankscuba.com/2015/05/04/video-massive-stingray-encounter/

Dear Critters, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8EXO-DN3ac?rel=0 I’ve been getting into the water a lot more lately. I don’t believe that having to give up work because you’ve been diagnosed...

https://pinktankscuba.com/2015/04/16/amazing-video-1000-spider-crab-pyramid-todays-dive-329/

Dear Critters, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3y51HbN4C_E?rel=0 Recently I had an extraordinary encounter with a hunting blue-ringed octopus at Blairgowrie Pier. I have encountered these adorable...

https://pinktankscuba.com/2015/04/02/video-the-happy-hunter-blue-ringed-octopus/

Dear Critters, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VINt27cRr6Y?rel=0 As promised, here’s a video my dive buddy Mark ‘LP’ Jones and I filmed recently of him dancing with an octopus (literally mom...

https://pinktankscuba.com/2015/03/19/video-an-intimate-octopus-waltz/

Dear Critters, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FImSvFabpiM?rel=0 I felt so privileged to share this amazing dive with two of my all-time favourite Land Critters, my best buddy LP (who shot all the...

https://pinktankscuba.com/2015/02/20/dive-314-stingrays-at-blairgowrie/

Dear Critters, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndn5gB3rJYQ?rel=0 The tail-end of 2014 is something of a blur in my mind, though I do remember returning from my dive trip to North Stradbroke late o...

https://pinktankscuba.com/2015/01/03/bucket-list-adventure-north-stradbroke-island-qld/

Dear Critters, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkjkHjSohsA?rel=0 My ears instantly pricked up when on my recent Great White Shark expedition, I heard shark expert Andrew Fox declare ‘I’m on th...

https://pinktankscuba.com/2014/12/10/great-white-tumour-biopsy-video/

Dear Critters, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-rM4Sm1H_U?rel=0 What is on your Bucket List? Within the space of a week, I managed to cross the two biggest critters off mine: mixing with the magn...

https://pinktankscuba.com/2014/12/03/great-white-shark-video/

Dear Critters, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxCjDCqYTxg?rel=0 When you have been told that you have less than a year to live, you do everything you can to cross as much as as possible off your ...

https://pinktankscuba.com/2014/11/17/my-majestic-manta-ray-encounter/

Dear Critters, It has taken me over a week to write this post. After my buddy discovered yet another massacred and mutilated draughtboard shark, I honestly just really didn’t feel up to writing...

https://pinktankscuba.com/2014/11/03/dive-282-pink-dragon-eggs/

Dear Critters, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUopyYqVEZk?rel=0 What do you fear? I’m not sure what I fear anymore. When people describe me as fearless, I have to think very hard of reasons why...

https://pinktankscuba.com/2014/10/22/sea-snake-mating-dance/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilVbllxUynE?rel=0 Dear Critters, Many people ask me ‘Aren’t you afraid of sharks?’, and as a girl who has had cancer four times in four years and who recently...

https://pinktankscuba.com/2014/10/11/shark-feeding-frenzy/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOe0Wgewug0?rel=0 Dear Critters, People often ask me if I believe in UFOs – Underwater Fabulous Objects? Of course I do! In fact, I managed to capture video foota...

https://pinktankscuba.com/2014/06/26/i-filmed-a-ufo/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gCO_HZqhOE?rel=0 Dear Critters, Dive 255 was honestly the most magical dive of my life! Though we hadn’t made plans to dive today, my buddy LP contacted me early...

https://pinktankscuba.com/2014/06/22/dive-255-this-is-bliss/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeWKHdVhTbU?rel=0 Dear Critters, Have you ever been to a spider crab disco? It’s both exciting and hilarious!  Thousands of eager crabs line up in anticipation o...

https://pinktankscuba.com/2014/06/21/video-spidercrab-disco/

Dear Critters, Today I dived with my best buddy LP for our final chance to say goodbye to all of the lovely crabs that had survived the annual migration to Rye Pier; they are now headed back out ...

https://pinktankscuba.com/2014/06/15/dive-254-crab-farewell/

Dear Critters, Even though I couldn’t find a dive buddy today, I just couldn’t resist another visit to the annual spider crab migration at Rye Pier! Spunky  Abe and the Golden Twins (my dogs...

https://pinktankscuba.com/2014/06/14/dive-253-more-spider-crabs/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9z4g19k79ps?rel=0 Dear Critters, The spectacular spider crab migration at Rye Pier in Australia is without exaggeration one of the highlights of my life every year!...

https://pinktankscuba.com/2014/06/10/dive-251252-spider-crab-migration/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qg1y5imgpTk?rel=0 Dear Critters, I have so many videos and photos to share with you from my dives yesterday and today at the annual spider crab migration at Rye  P...

https://pinktankscuba.com/2014/06/09/video-seahorse-and-spidercrabs/

  Dear Critters, For me, every dive is a milestone. One year ago today, I was in hospital during an agonising three week stint; I had just been moved from the Intensive Care Unit after two major...

https://pinktankscuba.com/2014/06/02/dive-250-blairgowrie-pier/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k03ZpK5N8rs?rel=0 Dear Critters, I don’t know why, but I find stargazers hilarious – the bulldog of the sea that always tries to make itself invisible. They bur...

https://pinktankscuba.com/2014/05/04/gallery-stargazers/

Dear Critters, The first time I visited the Philippines, I travelled alone to Anilao for a brilliant 10 day underwater photography workshop in 2012. More recently, I returned to Puerto Galera wit...

https://pinktankscuba.com/2014/05/03/gallery-scuba-philippines/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5sAEqzSQZo?rel=0 Dear Critters, Remoras are fish that like to help other critters in the ocean stay clean. Apparently, this includes divers! Here’s a short, funn...

https://pinktankscuba.com/2014/05/03/video-diver-cleaning-station/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBihdTAKwHg?rel=0 Dear Critters, We drove to two piers and one backbeach, rejecting them all. Nothing in particular – I just wasn’t ‘feeling’ them. Then we ...

https://pinktankscuba.com/2014/05/03/video-cuttlefish-encounter/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsFXd-9K8Y0?rel=0 Dear Critters, Some dives, the magic just glides into your soul. My three buddies and I swam out just past the end of the pier into visibility so ...

https://pinktankscuba.com/2014/05/03/video-stingrays-rye-pier/

https://pinktankscuba.com/2014/05/03/gallery-scuba-melbourne/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToCqiVwKhMY?rel=0 Dear Critters, It was such a privilege to travel to South Australia to meet my newborn twin great-niece Izzy and nephew JJ and to attend the weddi...

https://pinktankscuba.com/2014/05/03/video-scuba-rapid-bay-australia/