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Sorry to hear you were disappointed by St. John's. There are as you say some coral gardens there but also quite a few wall dives with good chanses to see big stuff. There are grey reef sharks, silkies, longimanus, hammerheads (both scalloped and great) whitetips, thresher sharks and manta around at the moment. When I'm guiding that area I always try to get a feeling what the group rather have and take them on those dives. Normally we would make two wall dives first and then maybe a cave/tunnle system in the afternoon and save the coral gardens for the night dives.
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That would be great! Congratulations in advanceThat's a pretty hard sell for me at home but if I can successfully kick the smoking then I might deem myself deserving of a reward
Yeah, my impression also was that there are sharks and other big stuff to be found down south. Our group had *very* mixed abilities and one person only had 4 (yes, four) dives of about 20 minutes length each in shallow gentle water prior to this trip so I guess some of our itinerary was dictated by this factor. Kind of gutting, had tried to keep the weight of expectation to a minimum but we had essentially no interaction with any big stuff. The only dive that I really enjoyed was St John's caves. Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed all the other dives too, it's just that they weren't what we went to go and see. One of our guides got bitten by a large Napoleon after making 'feeding' hand gestures (that'll learn her!). Bit right up to her elbow . She just had a couple of bruises and scratches, no permanent damage done, apart from her ego possibly .
I had already decided to go with Blue-O-Two for next year even prior to this somewhat disappointing trip, although my appetite for pelagics is so completely un-sated that I am seriously considering whether there's any possibility of going back in a few months and taking in the Brothers/Daedalus itinerary. That's a pretty hard sell for me at home but if I can successfully kick the smoking then I might deem myself deserving of a reward
Anyhow, sorry, quite a diversionary post - glad the OP chose the Brothers. From my very limited experience it seems to be a great place to get to play with sharks.
J