Steve Hysko
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Most of these reefs under 70 feet were bleached and are now covered with algae. My recent visit there was very disappointing. The aggressor and crew were fantastic. The diving was sad.
Los Jardines de la Reina
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Do you mean deeper than 70 or less than 70?
Any pictures?
We were there in January and saw the same . . . very dispiriting, it's as though it was so good for so long that the hot water in 2023 caused full-on disaster. Here's a set of images from that trip.
Thanks. It was a Backscatter trip; they've done it for several years, and we were able to compare January 2023 and January 2024 pictures because they set the scent boxes in the same locations. There were certainly some unaffected corals, but to our eyes, the difference was stark. The gorgonians seemed to me to have taken the hardest hit--lots were heavy with algae and falling apart, and many were reduced to skeletal remains; also, many of the pillars seemed to be reduced to stone. I would be thrilled to learn that it's better than we thought. Still, the Jardines de la Reina is (are?) quite remote and topographically dramatic, the boat (Avalon III) was terrific (and the crew was even better), and we saw lots of sharks and at least one (often several) Goliaths on every dive.
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