Sea View Reef Dive

We dove the southern area of the Don Fosters Reef. Most of the dive was on 50 feet around the big coral heads between the main reef and the wall.

Very lush area with beautiful rope sponges, soft corals and lot of fish life.

April 13th Dive

After two weeks with a bad cold that kept me in bed for over 8 days and out of the water for the reminder, here are some pics we took during the dive today. Great visibility and lot of fish activity. On one of the moorings close to shore we got to interact with a baby Scrawled File Fish, 3 Pygmy File Fish and a school of baby Trumpet Fish. Pretty fun!

Until next dive!

March 3rd!

Milky visibility, great dive though! A big Turtle eating a sponge while Damsel fish relentless attacked her to defend their territory. We watched this event for over 15 minutes. Spanish Hog Fish and Queen Angels joined the fest, all trying to eat the same sponge.

Also I experienced a close encounter with a Harlequin Bass. He was very interested on my camera lens and kept on coming right up to the Port. I could seen from the other side of the lens bumping the glass and getting annoyed. I tried my best to get some good shots of him but, he was so close that my lens could not focus on such a short distance.

Over all we saw lot of fish and very active right now as there is a lot of food going by in the water column.

Until next dive!

Friday March 2nd.

The reef was very active with jelly fish and plankton activity. The fish were really happy munching all what was going by. Diving was pretty fun however we had to pay close attention to the long string of siphonophors (sorry for thee wrong spelling!) not to get caught on our necks, arms, ankles or camera equipment. They do sting!

We had a great interaction with two Tiger Groupers fighting for territory. They used us as shelter and swam around us on a hide and seek dance. Later on we saw them at their natural cleaning station. Although they did let us get real close for pics, our job taking them was not that great (judging by the results at home!).

Almost two hours of great fun!

Until next one!

Friday and Saturday Dives Photos!

Photo Dive with Tracy on Friday and then with Rome on Saturday. Flooded housing on Saturday afternoon dive but saved the camera (lucky again!). Dives were pretty good. Lots of creatures. Big turtle, octopus and Grouper that Romeo photographed very close. Great experience.

Romeo continue with his Dive Master class. We assisted with a Discover Scuba Diving course. Three students. They did a 30 minute dive and needed a lot of assistance with buoyancy. Romeo did a great job and is a step closer to obtaining his Dive Master rating.

Until next dive!

Friday 10, 2012 Dive

Good Vis, Good Dive!

Very light current and pretty good visibility. Lot of fish on the reef. We had a great dive up until I tried to take a picture of Tracy and she notice my housing had water. Fortunately the camera did not get wet and is still working.

Here are a couple of pictures from the dive.