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From the top deck of the boat, we could see the double overhead waves started rolling in, the forecast was right. A perfect moment to test out my brand new custom water housing for my Canon 1D m2 made by Salty Surf Housing in Australia. Together with a bunch of good friends we had been floating around, sleeping on a boat in the warm Indian Ocean chasing the good wave in the Maldives. This evening was the moment to leave my surfboard behind and capture the surf session. Never an easy decision to make; surf or swim and take photos, a struggle only a ‘water photographer’ that loves surfing knows. It turned out to be a heavy swim battling the current and diving under the four meter faces of water. Lots of wipeouts, holding on the volcanic reef helped to do the most powerful part of the wave. The waves weren’t breaking in one spot which allowed me to play around with framing the images. After two hours of using my flippers witnessing beautiful clouds closing in during sunset with lots of rain, it was too dark to keep using my ISO and we slowly swam back to the boat. All smiles, we told each other what we had seen and felt that session with Mother Nature and then Hugo and I saw the same thing, “did you see that too?” I quickly took a photo underwater to see what swam one foot next to me. A reef shark having a sniff and telling us it was time to go.
