Question Where did you dive today and how was it?

[bradStyle]

Cozumel – Santa Rosa Wall/Shallows and Villa Blanca Wall. Current was stronger than usual, portions of the second dive it was ripping. Lots of fun but had a dear friend with me on her 8th dive. She LOVED it and did great, but I hung very close to her for most of the dive to make sure she stayed in her happy place.

 

[Scuba_Jenny]

Blue Heron Bridge.
Parking lot filled up early. Decent vis, but water still cool. Found 4 dwarf froggies, 2 seahorse, and a bunch of nudis.

 

[MacDuyver]

At the rocky islands off Islandikane. It was here that the Earl of Sandwich met her end. The Earl of Sandwich sailed from London in June 1765 with bale goods and hardware to Santa Cruz and then to the Canary Islands. At Oratoira she loaded wine, Spanish milled gold dollars, gold dust and jewels. On board with captain Cocherman was the privateer Captain Glass, his wife and daughter. The Earl of Sandwich was reported in Bantry Bay on the 10-11-1765. On the 30th of November off Waterford 3 of the crew ( St. Quinten, McKinley, and Zacherman) rose and murdered everyone except the cabin boy who they left to drown aboard the sinking vessel. They loaded 250 bags of gold and some jewels aboard the ships boat and rowed for the river where they landed at Fisherstown. There they buried most of the gold and headed up river to New Ross where they bought horses and some pistols, all paid for with spanish gold dollars. In the meantime the Earl of Sandwich didn't sink she drifted towards Tramore and a Norwegian ship reported a large 3 masted brig down to her rails. The Duncannon garrison were called out when talk of 3 strangers were spending lavishly at the taverns. The ship came ashore at the islands off Islandikane where a fisherman took the boy off a mast and recovered a bag of gold coin. She broke up and large amounts of flasks of wine and madeira were washed ashore at Kilfarrasy and Garrus strand. The pirates were caught in Dublin, questioned, hanged and their body hung at the Muglins.

That’s one of the coolest stories I’ve ever heard about a site!

 

[KatieMac]

Haven't dove yet today, but the 2:30 dive today in Roatan West End will be my 200th dive and I'm trying to do a long enough dive so I finish with lifetime TBT at 200 hours as well. 200 hours for 200 dives.

It's within reach.

 

[KatieMac]

Haven't dove yet today, but the 2:30 dive today in Roatan West End will be my 200th dive and I'm trying to do a long enough dive so I finish with lifetime TBT at 200 hours as well. 200 hours for 200 dives.

It's within reach.

Dove Dixie’s in ROATAN West End yesterday. 78 minute dive on the last dive of the day helped me cross 200 hours TBT.

Unfortunately, I didn’t calculate for the extra two minutes safety stop (five minutes total), so rather than coming up at exactly 200 hours, it was 200 hours and two minutes.

Lots to see, but unfortunately nothing epic. Although there was a pretty big shadow down and off the wall that I watched for a bit, but it never really revealed itself.

 

[christ0phe]

Just returned from a weekend trip to Cozumel. Strong north winds, so mostly kept to the shallow reefs like paradise. Was able to get out to palancar the first day. On Saturday I headed to playa for some cenotes, and the ferry ended up stopped for about 4 hours in the afternoon. I feel like that rarely happens! All told, great 3 days of diving and hit my 100 and 101 dive on the last day!

 

[KatieMac]

Just returned from a weekend trip to Cozumel. Strong north winds, so mostly kept to the shallow reefs like paradise. Was able to get out to palancar the first day. On Saturday I headed to playa for some cenotes, and the ferry ended up stopped for about 4 hours in the afternoon. I feel like that rarely happens! All told, great 3 days of diving and hit my 100 and 101 dive on the last day!

I love paradise reef

 

[christ0phe]

I love paradise reef

Same, I could dive that every day. The conditions were perfect and barely a current. I used a hand scooter for the first time too, which was awesome to zip around the reef in bursts.

 

[KatieMac]

Same, I could dive that every day. The conditions were perfect and barely a current. I used a hand scooter for the first time too, which was awesome to zip around the reef

Unfortunately, I only got to dive at once. Heavy current that day and I dove from a cruise ship. But I was there in December and I dove Paso de Cedral twice. Both times I saw a nurse shark in a cave with a green moray and then a green Moray in a cave with a nurse shark. It was awesome.

 

[MacDuyver]

Got a crew together and dove Toilet Bowl, one of the more advanced shore dives on island.

It’s a cool site because you have to climb over a field of jagged lava rocks to get to the entry point where it immediately drops to 8ft or so. The drop is pretty steep and ends at about 130ft.

Fish were okay, and there were a bunch of jellyfish, but with jelly fish come sea turtles! We found a pretty sizable green sea turtle swimming ever so slowly away from gorging itself on jellyfish.

Conditions were good enough to spot a shark at 50m or so.

2 deep dives in great conditions,