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Belize Aggressor III Captains Log Nov 10-17, 2012
Crew: Capt. Jay, Chef Yanis, Stewardess Jean, Engineer Fermin, Instructors Jody & Chris
Seas: choppy
Winds: 5-10 knots
Skies: mostly overcast and sunny on some days
Water Temp: 79-82F
Visibility: 120ft +
On Saturday we welcomed John, Mike, Scott, Karen, Patrick, Mark, Sue, Jim, Sandy, Ron, Phil, Scott, Jess, Rick, and Gayletta...Gray and Nikki arrived a day later. Our passengers boarded the vessel at 3pm and got settled while getting to know each other. After doing introductions and our Captains and safety briefings, we sat down to a wonderful meal of fresh fish prepared by Chef Yanis. Then we headed over to Turneffe Atoll to do our check out dives while waiting for your delayed passengers to arrive.
We moored up at Front Porch for the morning check out dives, and then moved over to Black Beauty for the afternoon and night dives. We started the week over at Turneffe, then motored to Lighthouse Reef Atoll and then back to Turneffe to finish off the weeks diving.
It seems like the morays came out to play this week we saw free-swimming morays on almost every dive site. Also plentiful were nudibranch and sea slugs lettuce sea slugs were observed mating! We spotted at least a dozen leech headshield slugs and some sea hares in the sand and sea grass at Half Moon Caye Wall. Pipefish were seen at several sites, and decorator crabs were found on every dive. Also found were skeleton shrimp, wire coral shrimp, banded coral shrimp, Pederson and red snapping shrimp, spiny and slipper lobsters. Several eagle rays cruised the walls on a few of the dives, and southern stingrays moved across the sandy bottom, and we stumbled upon a huge nurse shark tucked under a ledge. We got some action shots, like a moray eating a lionfish, a red hind eating a small parrotfish, and a few of the guests got to swim with a turtle.
Other things we saw this week a pair of juvenile spotted drums, adult spotted drum, lots of flamingo tongues, comb jellies, yellow headed jawfish, sand tilefish, scrawled cowfish, several scorpionfish, lesser electric eel, peacock flounder, and off course the tons of regular reef fish such as angels, queen triggers, Creole wrasse, fairy basslets, trumpet fish, chromis, damsels, hamlets, squirrel fish, black durgeons, barracuda, sharp nose puffers, groupers, and snappers to name a few.
The night dives were awesome! At night we found squid, octopus, several different types of nudibranch, Spanish lobster, sharp-tail eel, rare sighting of a bonefish, and of course lots of tarpon swimming around under the boat.
What a fun week!
THANK YOU!!!!
Crew: Capt. Jay, Chef Yanis, Stewardess Jean, Engineer Fermin, Instructors Jody & Chris
Seas: choppy
Winds: 5-10 knots
Skies: mostly overcast and sunny on some days
Water Temp: 79-82F
Visibility: 120ft +
On Saturday we welcomed John, Mike, Scott, Karen, Patrick, Mark, Sue, Jim, Sandy, Ron, Phil, Scott, Jess, Rick, and Gayletta...Gray and Nikki arrived a day later. Our passengers boarded the vessel at 3pm and got settled while getting to know each other. After doing introductions and our Captains and safety briefings, we sat down to a wonderful meal of fresh fish prepared by Chef Yanis. Then we headed over to Turneffe Atoll to do our check out dives while waiting for your delayed passengers to arrive.
We moored up at Front Porch for the morning check out dives, and then moved over to Black Beauty for the afternoon and night dives. We started the week over at Turneffe, then motored to Lighthouse Reef Atoll and then back to Turneffe to finish off the weeks diving.
It seems like the morays came out to play this week we saw free-swimming morays on almost every dive site. Also plentiful were nudibranch and sea slugs lettuce sea slugs were observed mating! We spotted at least a dozen leech headshield slugs and some sea hares in the sand and sea grass at Half Moon Caye Wall. Pipefish were seen at several sites, and decorator crabs were found on every dive. Also found were skeleton shrimp, wire coral shrimp, banded coral shrimp, Pederson and red snapping shrimp, spiny and slipper lobsters. Several eagle rays cruised the walls on a few of the dives, and southern stingrays moved across the sandy bottom, and we stumbled upon a huge nurse shark tucked under a ledge. We got some action shots, like a moray eating a lionfish, a red hind eating a small parrotfish, and a few of the guests got to swim with a turtle.
Other things we saw this week a pair of juvenile spotted drums, adult spotted drum, lots of flamingo tongues, comb jellies, yellow headed jawfish, sand tilefish, scrawled cowfish, several scorpionfish, lesser electric eel, peacock flounder, and off course the tons of regular reef fish such as angels, queen triggers, Creole wrasse, fairy basslets, trumpet fish, chromis, damsels, hamlets, squirrel fish, black durgeons, barracuda, sharp nose puffers, groupers, and snappers to name a few.
The night dives were awesome! At night we found squid, octopus, several different types of nudibranch, Spanish lobster, sharp-tail eel, rare sighting of a bonefish, and of course lots of tarpon swimming around under the boat.
What a fun week!
THANK YOU!!!!