Category Dive Logs

The visibility was poor, most likely due to a storm that passed three days prior. Lots of rock fish.

Poor visiblity on bottom.

Brysuit training dive

Nice fresh water eels and turtles. Many bass and sun perch and large catfish.

Very coldm not much to see at all. Others in group ran out of air

Not much to see at all

Dropped on to wall at around 20m, finned left shoulder in medium current. Best display of hard and soft corals seen so far in Pemba. School of silver trevalley and large dark snappers (?) in the blue.

Large spotted grouper, and sightings of two separate green turtles, one larger than the other. Came across a large coral ‘graveyadr, a mound of dead coral pieces swept up and deposited by the currents. An ideal spot to see turtles feeding on thecoral and they are regularly spotted (and sadly sometimes illegally hunted) here. Single large batfish with cleaner wrasse coming across the top of the reef.

Large sandy bottomed ‘valley’ on the top of the reef around 12m, and saw some lionfish, banded shrimp, mantis shrimp, racoon butterflyfish an tiny juvenile dorys in the anemones. A beautiful dive!

Boat trip from Fundo Lagoon on Pemba to Misali (aka Mesali) Island, Conservation Area.(not fully an MPA) Dropped down to wall, finned right shoulder at 30m. Currents apparently very unpredictable, but pleasantly light today, slack after high water. Finned against current initially to schools of trevally, unicorn fish and both pickhandle and blackfin barracuda.

Turned with current and back over reef, completely encircled by schools of barracuda. Two Napoleon’s, largest at 2+ metres. More blue finned trevallys and a large number of large silver trevallys.

An absolutely stunning dive.

Tender from Karibu Sama, Pemba Afloat yacht. Slow descent to arch at 32m. Entrance is normally guarded by ‘St Peter’, a large grouper (?), but he was having the morning off. Swim through the arch, full of small fish, snappers, etc. Really niceswim through.

Left at arch exit, wall with lare gorgonia – pretty stunning sight! Spanis Dancer egg rose (bit no dancer), large silver trevallys, small scorpion fish, and schools of fusiliers. Finished dive at the top of reef in garden of hard corals and smoking (spawning) sponges.

A superbly pleasand dive.

Dive from Pemba Afloat yacht tender, in Ngao Gap on the west coast of Pemba. Backward entry and gentle fin towards reefs on the shore line. Dive was mostly around 8 metres, looking for Spanish Dancers, having previously seen lots of Dancer egg roses.

Small coral outcrops in the sandy bottom, with large red nudibranch (approx 8 inches long) but no Spanish dancers! Moray with yellow head and black and white mottled body. Half-banded sea snake, some lion fish and rabbit fish. Lots of shrimps and bioluminescence – a very pleasant dive.