I found the snappers!
I did Shark and Yolanda second dive today (12:30) after a first dive at Jackfish Alley; the current was running backwards (from baby Yolanda to Shark, if you're familiar with dive site), ran to slack and then switched so I jumped at Baby and finished my dive, ironically, given my blog post about current checks, going the wrong way at Shark! Very mild current though... And hey, I can tell you what the current is doing at the start of a dive but I have no idea what it will do after that! Moses may have been able to part the waters of the Red Sea but I for sure cannot.
I saw maybe 200 (ish) Snappers hanging out over the drop-off near the wreck (the toilets, if you've been here), and then making my safety stop at Shark, I was greeted with a long stream of them moving back over to Shark with the current switch... awesome to watch!
Also I had schools of barracuda at both dive sites, which was really cool, and saw the tuna that DiveBunnie encountered and one of them is indeed, rather large.
Awesome day - and I especially liked the bit where a guide from another centre swam his group straight through my colleague's and was then suddenly attacked by two medium-sized tuna. Revenge!
And I know I shouldn't say this, but I did have a strange hankering for sushi after surfacing at Jackfish Alley
Tiran tomorrow and my guests have requested a jaunt outside Jackson to look for the hammerheads, so I told them to laminate a good book and bring it along because sadly, they are unlikely to see any. Fingers crossed all the same though!
Cheers
C.
I did Shark and Yolanda second dive today (12:30) after a first dive at Jackfish Alley; the current was running backwards (from baby Yolanda to Shark, if you're familiar with dive site), ran to slack and then switched so I jumped at Baby and finished my dive, ironically, given my blog post about current checks, going the wrong way at Shark! Very mild current though... And hey, I can tell you what the current is doing at the start of a dive but I have no idea what it will do after that! Moses may have been able to part the waters of the Red Sea but I for sure cannot.
I saw maybe 200 (ish) Snappers hanging out over the drop-off near the wreck (the toilets, if you've been here), and then making my safety stop at Shark, I was greeted with a long stream of them moving back over to Shark with the current switch... awesome to watch!
Also I had schools of barracuda at both dive sites, which was really cool, and saw the tuna that DiveBunnie encountered and one of them is indeed, rather large.
Awesome day - and I especially liked the bit where a guide from another centre swam his group straight through my colleague's and was then suddenly attacked by two medium-sized tuna. Revenge!
And I know I shouldn't say this, but I did have a strange hankering for sushi after surfacing at Jackfish Alley
Tiran tomorrow and my guests have requested a jaunt outside Jackson to look for the hammerheads, so I told them to laminate a good book and bring it along because sadly, they are unlikely to see any. Fingers crossed all the same though!
Cheers
C.