Marlborough Sound Scuba Diving for Scallops in the summer of 2016. Please subscribe to our page and LIKE our videos. Covering some 4,000 km2 of sounds, islands, and peninsulas, the Marlborough Sounds lie at the South Island's north-easternmost point, between Tasman Bay in the west and Cloudy Bay in the south-east. The almost fractal coastline has 1/5 of the length of New Zealand's coasts.[3] The steep, wooded hills and small quiet bays of the sounds are sparsely populated, as access is difficult. Many of the small settlements and isolated houses are only accessible by boat. The main large port is Picton on the mainland, at the head of Queen Charlotte Sound. It is at the northern terminus of the South Island's main railway and State Highway networks. The main small boat port is Waikawa which is one of New Zealand's largest and provides a base for leisure sailors and vacationers. The main sounds, other than Queen Charlotte Sound, are Pelorus Sound and Kenepuru Sound. Tory Channel is a major arm of Queen Charlotte Sound, and between them they isolate the hills of Arapaoa Island from the mainland. Other islands in the sounds include D'Urville Island. Scallops are a cosmopolitan family of bivalves, found in all of the world's oceans, though never in freshwater. They are one of very few groups of bivalves to be primarily "free-living"; many species are capable of rapidly swimming short distances and even of migrating some distance across the ocean floor. A small minority of scallop species live cemented to rocky substrates as adults, while others are more simply attached by means of a filament they secrete called a byssal thread. The majority of species, however, live recumbent on sandy substrates, and when they sense the presence of a predator such as a starfish, they are able to escape by swimming swiftly but erratically through the water using a form of jet propulsion created by repeatedly clapping of their shells together. Scallops have a well-developed nervous system, and unlike most other bivalves they have numerous simple eyes situated around the edge of their mantles. Scuba diving is a mode of underwater diving in which a scuba diver uses a self-contained underwater breathing apparatus (scuba) to breathe underwater. water, underwater, scuba, sea, ocean, sport, diving, diver, mask, vacation, activity, equipment, swim, people, snorkel, dive, leisure, background, regulator, tropical, man, extreme, aquatic, snorkeling, adventure, fish, deep, blue, travel, coral, nature, vector, gear, under, isolated, silhouette, fun, sign, action, marine, reef, illustration, one, egypt, summer, pressure, active, tank, icon, air, scene, beach, face, flipper, element, sports, symbol, person, white, animal, male, oxygen, wave, turquoise, wildlife, holiday, safety, flashlight, young, wetsuit, aqualung, recreation, tourism, red, environment, backlit, sky, design, goggles, surface, island, life, practicing, set, natural, suit, beauty, relaxation, group, divers, full, fin, flat, wet, lifestyle, sunlight, outdoors, lifestyles, sand, maldives, swimming, selfie, seascape, portrait, boat, fishing, bubble, watch, adult, scuba diving, knife, valve, tube, glove, graphic, object, speargun, kit, length, color, finger, couple, fist, hand, lady, human, head, contact, clear, arm, wild, depth, below, beneath, buddy, bubbles, breath, light, fins, ok, exotic, submerged, signal, pure, hobby, success, scuba diver, woman, together, shoal, mexico, out, smiling, spray, hawaii, font, fonts, go, engraving, emblem, hawksbill, and, apparel, elements, of, reptile, thailand, lagoon, model, professional, maui, compressed, cylinder, mauritius, similans, silver, turtle, happy, splash, fit, indian, letter, beard, beautiful, mountain, butterflyfish, reflection, respiratory, seacoast, seashore, protect, plastic, last, lens, pipe, shiny, sub, antilles, child, pool, boy, green, summertime, sunny, australia, glass, detail, t-shirt, foam, vintage, stencil, stamp, print, retro, undersea, fly, epic, bahamas, breathing, closeup, aquatics, aqua, clouds, kid, band, poster, supplies, collection, character, computer, dive machine, diving equipment, camera, bag, rest, shadows, silhouettes, appliances, diving icon set, diving suit, weight system, whistle, close, maker, octo, metal detector, essentials, gloves, item, machine, relax, nautical, alam, aquarium, barrier, biodiversity, under water, sportswear, diveng man, diver isolated, diver sport, flippers, colorful, ecosystem, close up, team, bottom, landscape, bubble maker, sharm, great, marsa, pacific, school, up, shadow, boys, buble, caucasian, close-up, trouble, swimmer, mono, monofin, pose, style, discovery, floating, snork, vacations, caribbean, eat, recreational, men, glasses, joy, liquid, looking, logo, freediving, low angle view, red sea, ripple, silence, fish-eye lens, extreme sports, anemone fish, animals in the wild, anthias fish, at the bottom of,

• published: 15 Feb 2016
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