UPY 2024

UPY  British Waters Compact - Commended
'Sheigra Gulley'
Cathy Hollingdale

Located in the far NW of scotland, Kinlochbervie offers clear Atlantic water, rich marine life and dramatic scenery both above and below the water. We discovered this particular site around 4 years ago, I’ve since dived it around 40 times. On this dive I was with one of my regular buddies so we headed off to explore the site a little further. We’d started at the main surge gulley, located the entrance to this one and headed along, its around 100m long and is quite stunning with some very interesting topography. Its around 8/10m deep at this point as it narrows and frames by buddy quite well with the beautiful red sea squirts, elephant and white lattice sponges.

Judge's comment: In the early days of the British Society of Underwater Photographers, one of the stated goals of the society was to photograph the full length of a diver in British conditions. This image would have blown their minds. A stunning shot and amazing conditions too.
Alex Mustard