Category Dive Logs

Led the dive for the divemaster qualification. Sightings of four turtles – 2 sleeping on the reef, bumphead parrot fish, fusiliers, big school of black snappers, a couple of mean tuna, napolean wrasse.

Es una de las mas bonitas de la zona.

Es muy profunda, baja hasta 52 metros.

Se ven unas morenas fantasticas, meros grandes y hay un canal el cual es precioso. Hay bastante corriente pero es genial.

D* course with Rene

some exercises

AIR-Diving

Zurich at 406m

Observation on reef survey techniques

Paul found it very difficult to see the fishing line – his acuity underwater is shocking. Should look into getting him some contact lenses or prescription mask

we observed many marine creatures and this snoorkel was as a part of training for our project “Conserving giantclams through community reserves in lakshadweep islands” a Darwin funded project. initiated in our islands by Bombay natural history society and LEAD-UK.

Dived with John and Elizabeth to give them a bit of confidence. Dropped down onto tila and slowly finned – left shoulder – with current. Elizabeth was a bit nervous so we stuck with her for he dive. Reached the end of the tila and the current was in our faces so we turned around and slowly ascended – holding Elizabeth’s hand!! Didn’t see anything out of the ordinary but nice coral and usual abundance of reef fishes.

Dropped off boat near island reef. Decended down a steep wall and drifted along wall – left shoulder. Nice hard and soft coral, seafans and big caves and overhangs. Big plasitic sheet (tsunami damage/debris above us – viz not so good so at first it looked like a huge ray!!. No big stuff though but a lot of reef fish in the shallows.

Nice Dive and last of this trip!

First day diving off Velavaru after travelling to and another earthquake!! Jumped off boat onto a tila in the middle of nowhere. Descended to to 25m on a gradual sloping wall which became more vertical throughout the dive. Finned right shoulder. Nice coral and overhangs. Big shoal of yellow snapper, big tuna and thred juvenile lionfish. Also saw a big giant moray. Nice topography and really nice dive!

Location: Southerly Fjord of North America, Marine Park, Contain Artificial Reefs (Shipwreck), Pebble Beach

Benefit: Easy access to ocean (Staircase Built), Long swim to the floats, Warm Shower but faraway changing room

Weather: Windy, Light Rain, 80% Cloud Cover

Aqua life: Crabs, Mussels, Sea Anemone,Sea Kelp, Sunflower Seastar, Lingcod, Red Sea Urchin