Category Dive Logs

Jodi with Nedda again. Best dive yet! Only skill practiced on this dive was u/w nav. Large bass, few trout.

1 st TDI- Basic Nitrox

Nitrox

Advertised as a Shark Encounter with Dive Safaris of St Maarten. Total of 7 Caribbean reef sharks seen. 2 large adults an 5 juveniles. Large female showed signs of bite injury from mating.

This is a nice comercially developed spring. It includes a very deep cave that I didn’t explore. The cave mouth is at 55 feet and the cave extends below 110 feet. Fresh water eels near the mouth of the cave and a snapping turtle were interesting. The water stays 68 degrees year round. A 3 mm wetsuit was not quite enough for a comfortable dive. This is a great training dive. This site is used for classes frequently.

very large american lobster ~15lbs, squid and many silver hake

Some fish including approx 2# trout, swam through mifoil,

Vrad watched our skills then we three swam togehter. Many more fish. I still don’t think I care for this back-inflation style BCS.

Stunning island with beautiful yellow and purple coral and many shoals. Incredible visibility, especially given the storm above. It had been rumoured the vis was excellent here but we had not believed it. We put the anchor down too far away from the island and descended to 29 metres (can go down to 60m here as shelving) and swam back in to average 22 metres for the dive. The island is protected so can be dived in bad sea conditions. Saw a beautiful feathertail stingray and Mario filmed him swimming away.

A dive worth remembering for the low visablitiy. Searching for life proves difficult at first as the creatures here were very small, luckily i saw many beautiful worms, crabs and kelp forests. This dive is for feather stars, kelp and large crabs.