Get in nice and close. Make sure your diving skills are good before you start using a camera underwater. Set your camera to the highest resolution, and the lowest ISO to begin with. Practice topside with your camera inside the housing. Try taking close-ups of flowers and other objects. Get close to your subject – [...]

This image was NOT photoshopped! The south-easter causes the upwelling of clean and cold water which is very rich in nutrients. When the wind stops and the upwelling is no longer continually replacing the inshore water it just needs a little sunlight for microscopic floating plants called phytoplankton grow and multiply. They are eaten by [...]

Have a look at these beautiful sharks and see how many of them you can recognise. Click on an image to reveal their identity. This strange filter feeding shark can be found in temperate waters and on average reaches up to 8 meters in length. The largest recorded specimen caught measured 12.27 meters. This toothy [...]

Red tide in False Bay Expect dirty dive conditions in False Bay for the next few weeks as a red tide moves through. The red tide has been in the bay for more than a week already and seems to be disapiting but the water is stil very green and murky. What is Red tide? [...]

It’s official, Cape Scuba Club is here! We are a new fun, family-based scuba diving club founded by experienced divers with a humble respect for the ocean and a passionate love for the sport. Passion is one of the pillars on which Cape Scuba Club is built, a passion not only for being underwater but [...]

Go through these hand signs and see how many you know, click on an image to see if you are correct.