Welcome to Total Bottom Time!
Total Bottom Time is my online personal dive log. A place where I can share my dives with friends, family, other divers, and the world. You can find out a bit more about me and see my full log of dives by clicking on my profile on the right. Feel free to subscribe to my dives via email or RSS.
Below are just some of my latest dives.
Latest Dives
Snorkel Trail |
April 12, 2025 |
The second dive of the day at the Snorkel Trail. Not as eventful as the first but good.
Blue Moki
Oblique-swimming Triplefin
Wandering Anemone
Cat's Eye Snail
iNaturalist NZ: Observations on 2025-04-12.
Click here to continue reading...Yelloweye Mullet |
April 12, 2025 |
There are some dives where everything happens, there are some dives where nothing happens. Sometimes on the same day at the same site. This dive was an everything dive.
There's never a shortage of Paua at New Zealand dive sites.
Blackfoot Paua
Common Triplefin
Variable Triplefish and Crayfish
This Blue Moki had a curious darker colour on its back half.
Blue Moki
Then there's the Blue Cod.
Blue Cod
I've seen this kind of anemone before at the Snorkel Trail. I'm trying to figure out what species it is.
Genus Epiactis
New Zealand Hermit Crab
Once in a while you find the molted exoskeleton of a crayfish. They're great to get a good close look at.
Molted Exoskeleton of a Crayfish
At the end of the dive, right when we were at the surface, we came across this sizeable school of Yelloweye Mullet. They even circled me at one point.
Yelloweye Mullet
That was definitely a first for me at the Snorkel Trail. A very cool moment to have right at the surface.
iNaturalist NZ: Observations on 2025-04-12.
Click here to continue reading...Snorkel Trail Around the Block - Dive 2 |
March 22, 2025 |
The visibility was decent and the weather nice enough to go around the block and dive from one end of the trail to the other at the Island Bay Snorkel Trail. This time I was buddied with someone with a rebreather so that was a first for me. Some of the buddy checks and safety procedures are different. Plus there are no bubbles to see when looking around for your buddy underwater!
Blue Moki
Blue Cod
Crayfish
Blue Moki and Scarlet Wrasse
Rebreather
I use iNaturalist NZ for fish identification and the findings for the day are at Observations on 2025-03-22.
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