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Saturday, I was diving with PV on the deep boat. They radioed the other boat which was planning to dive in Breakers, and the captain reported 5ft of visibility.
Sunday I was at the bridge and around 10am, there were a handful of dive boats returning to the marinas.
Sunday I was at the bridge and around 10am, there were a handful of dive boats returning to the marinas.
2bunderwaterone
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Can anyone speak to the grouper agg dives as far as actually seeing grouper? Went out last weekend and saw 3 or 4 but nothing like the 30-40 "stacked up" at any site that I expected. It was my first aggregation trip and I did overhear dive op cap and a regular discussing how they seemed to not be in the area this year....that it was still "too hot" or something? We dove the corridor in west palm and also dove in jupiter at the bonaire....saw at most 4-5...and not approachable really. Is that typical or am I missing something? This was booked as a "grouper agg" dive. Not blaming the dive op just wondering if I should try again somewhere else or if this year is abnormal...?
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CosbySweater
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They are around this year. Some days they have seen upwards of 30 on the wreck trek. Other days only a couple. They move around and will typically only stack up around structure when the current is moving. In low current days you’ll have less of a chance seeing them in numbers. The aggregation also follows the moon cycle with the best opportunities around the full moon (which is this coming Tuesday).
Like all wild life sightings, they are somewhat unpredictable, but there have been several good aggregation sightings this season.
2bunderwaterone
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2bunderwaterone
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Ok well, good to know. Maybe the situation just wasn't right. I was under the impression they were just there for a month or two and then gone, I didn't know it was that variable by the day. So basically go every weekend lol.
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@CosbySweater Provided excellent advice. When it is slow current they will be spread out on the nearby reefs like the Tunnels site and the Hole-in-the-wall site. If you have a good captain, he'll be calling the other captains to get scouting reports of where they are. Today we saw them on the reefs and it was a slow current day.
If you are on a wreck and don't see them,,, kick hard into the light current and get 300ft directly infront of the wreck. They will usually be out there with the females who want to get away from the commotion.
I've done 2 GG trips, and both have been disappointing in terms of seeing GG's. The first trip, vis was low, no GG to be seen. 2 weeks ago, I saw 4 on the Ana C and none from there to the bow of the Amarylis. I'm going to try again this Saturday.
Did the 3 tank charter with Jupiter Dive Center this morning. We had Captain Phil and the crew included Matt and Ryan. Topside conditions were almost flat, water temps are 85F. But the crappy green viz is back. Current is nonexistent to a trickle south. We had 10 to 20 foot of visibility on all three dives. We did Capt Kirle’s, the wreck trek from Miss Jenny south to the Zion Train. We didn’t do the Esso Bonaire because there was a shark feeding charter on it. And then we wrapped up with Bonnie’s north to south.
How deep were you? We went north of the inlet from WPB and it cleared up to around 40-50ft once you got deeper than 85ft.
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