Just a quick installment for today. I will be doing a full trip report when the trip is complete. I arrived to Guanaja on Monday with a group of 12 friends. We began diving yesterday and have 10 days of div ing planned. We are staying at the G&G Clearwater Paradise Resort: Scuba Diving Trips & Snorkeling, Guanaja Clearwater Divers
So far, the diving and hospitality have been outstanding. We had quite the experience today on our first dive of the day. About half way through there was a magnitude 5.5 earthquake centered 20 miles from our dive site and apparently 6 miles below the ocean floor. It sounded like a bomb went off and sent some sort of percussive type sound or shock wave right at us and it was like a jolt from a sledgehammer going right through your chest. It felt like it hit the torso and then passed all the way through the body. Shortly thereafter there was an additional aftershock that was much more mild.
Very crazy and unnerving experience. In the moment it hit, all the fish just jumped and scattered, including a large barracuda that was nearby.
Dives 2 and 3 today were uneventful and beautiful. Lots of nurse shark action on dive 2 as we had 5 nurse sharks of various sizes following us around for the entire dive and meandering in and around us for the entire hour. More later.
So far, the diving and hospitality have been outstanding. We had quite the experience today on our first dive of the day. About half way through there was a magnitude 5.5 earthquake centered 20 miles from our dive site and apparently 6 miles below the ocean floor. It sounded like a bomb went off and sent some sort of percussive type sound or shock wave right at us and it was like a jolt from a sledgehammer going right through your chest. It felt like it hit the torso and then passed all the way through the body. Shortly thereafter there was an additional aftershock that was much more mild.
Very crazy and unnerving experience. In the moment it hit, all the fish just jumped and scattered, including a large barracuda that was nearby.
Dives 2 and 3 today were uneventful and beautiful. Lots of nurse shark action on dive 2 as we had 5 nurse sharks of various sizes following us around for the entire dive and meandering in and around us for the entire hour. More later.
