seaangel
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I dove with my LDS in WPB, the 3rd and 4th on the Rampage.
We had some awesome dives too. But the one that will go down in the history book is July 4th our second tank at the
Shark Alley site. We were about half way through the drift dive when one of the divers that was in the front by the float ball started frantically pointed up to the surface, now this is where it gets crazy. I looked up and there was this HUGE shadow, at first glance I thought, gee a big boat is over us, then I did a double take wait a minute there are fins off this thing and the head is huge and oh my God, it is a Whale shark. Well we got within 10 ft of him, I could see his spots really well, about that time he rolled made a turn and disappeared out to the open water. Well, we decided that was just more than we could stand and we surfaced as a group, there were only two in our group that had their cameras with them. (I forgot mine, left it at the hotel)
But, we had a couple of fairly good pics with one digital camera and then the other guy took is to the one hour photo so we could see how his turned out. For the most part it is more a sillouette from below up toward him, but you can definetly know that it was a whale shark. They estimated his size at about 20-25 feet long. We were only in 45 ft and he had to of been at about 30 feet over us.
All of us in our group were just struck by this site, we stopped drifting and just watched it go by. A couple of the divers went up a little closer, but all of us were thinking we might scare it off if we went too close.
I will never, ever forget this dive. I always wanted to see one, but in my wildest dreams never thought it would be diving in WPB.
That was the highlight of my trip. Some of the other dives were not nearly as good. We did see some other pretty good things, turtles, morays, what appeared to be a spotted scorpion fish on a wreck that we dove, and atleast two small reef sharks. So, I would say we really had some pretty good dives all in all.
We had some awesome dives too. But the one that will go down in the history book is July 4th our second tank at the
Shark Alley site. We were about half way through the drift dive when one of the divers that was in the front by the float ball started frantically pointed up to the surface, now this is where it gets crazy. I looked up and there was this HUGE shadow, at first glance I thought, gee a big boat is over us, then I did a double take wait a minute there are fins off this thing and the head is huge and oh my God, it is a Whale shark. Well we got within 10 ft of him, I could see his spots really well, about that time he rolled made a turn and disappeared out to the open water. Well, we decided that was just more than we could stand and we surfaced as a group, there were only two in our group that had their cameras with them. (I forgot mine, left it at the hotel)
But, we had a couple of fairly good pics with one digital camera and then the other guy took is to the one hour photo so we could see how his turned out. For the most part it is more a sillouette from below up toward him, but you can definetly know that it was a whale shark. They estimated his size at about 20-25 feet long. We were only in 45 ft and he had to of been at about 30 feet over us.
All of us in our group were just struck by this site, we stopped drifting and just watched it go by. A couple of the divers went up a little closer, but all of us were thinking we might scare it off if we went too close.
I will never, ever forget this dive. I always wanted to see one, but in my wildest dreams never thought it would be diving in WPB.
That was the highlight of my trip. Some of the other dives were not nearly as good. We did see some other pretty good things, turtles, morays, what appeared to be a spotted scorpion fish on a wreck that we dove, and atleast two small reef sharks. So, I would say we really had some pretty good dives all in all.
