Category Dive Logs

COMPUTER DIVE

AMAZING VIZ!!!!!!! What more can I say?! Got down to 40m and could still see the surface clear as day. Spent some time drifting along the 1000m wall, and spotted a few pelagics hovering away in the blue but couldn’t identify them. Was getting seriously narked, but it was all good fun!!!

COMPUTER DIVE

Pretty average dive really, saw the usual Barrier reef stuff: Triggerfish, Parrotfish, Stingray. Main problem was the tiny 9L tank we were given, so it proved to be a tad restricting on depth/ bottom times.

slecht zicht

Huge abundance of soft coral spieces of different colours, shapes, and sizes. Saw banded sea snake, 2 large giant morays, 1 pigmy seahourse (made my trip!) – pink/red/white kind. tangs, schoolong green trigger fish, many butterfly fish, fusiliers, strong surge. Excellent dive!

Raket, Boot met luchtklok, fiets, eigen 1e keer eigen vest en automatenset

Took dive tender out from the sailing boat I was on to a really cute little dive boat. Unfortunately there seemed to be loads of intro-divers in the water so that was a tad annoying. Still, a nice lot of coral and the usual reef fish, but nothing as impressive as further North.

Excellent Dive! Visibility was much improved. the wall was vertical with many large barrel sponges, fans – a brilliant wall. Lots of small fishes and shoals, dogtooth tuna, 1 green turtle, 1 hawksbill turtle, shoal of batfish, many filefish, large white tip, tons of jacks – blue spotted and big eye, many surgeons and a few unicorn fish, plus many luna fusiliers. Really good biodiverse wall dive!

COMPUTER DIVE

Another nice bommie in the middle of the blue, this one was (as you could guess by the name!) split down the middle and the gap was filled with loads of stunning gorgonias and feather stars. You could just swim around and around the bommie and see something different every time, but this dive was about the small things. No big action really, but hundreds of little critters in the coral. Also found the cutest baby lionfish you could ever see. A must see dive site.

COMPUTER DIVE

Quite a strong current at this site, we were right on the corner of the reef so that could explain it. It also explained the amazing number of fish around. Swimming along the wall seemed to be thousands of trevally and other pelagics, while the reef itself was teeming with angelfish, anthias, butterflyfish, and the ubiqitous damselfish. Coral was in good shape with some very large areas of staghorn coral and a few lonely brain corals. The current helped in the end as the return to the boat was more of a cross-legged drift than a swim!

The site comprised of a single underwater mount (Bommie) rising up from the sea floor around 2km from the main reef. So it wasn’t surprising to find that the current was running quite impressively. Also impressive was the amount of life on one small patch of reef. Honestly, this place is a reef-scientists dream. Every part of this site has something different about it. From the patrolling lionfish and white tip sharks at the base (around 30m) to the swirling schools of anthias and damselfish at the top (around 5m) this site has it all. The crew on the boat had attached at a small marker to a tiny crevice and inside you could just make out a flame-file shell with its glowing blue mantle and fiery red tentacles. All in all, a stunning site...