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Captain's Log - Tropic Dancer
Log Date: Sat 2 June, 2012
Location: Palau
Entry By: Tropic Dancer Crew
May 26 - June 2, 2012
For our latest charter we welcomed group leader Mikhail and thirteen of his friends from the Moscow and St Petersburg area of Russia. We departed the dock early on Saturday afternoon and did our check out dive on the Helmet wreck in Malakal harbor. It was Maxims and Lenaras first even dive in the ocean and they had a great time by the look on their faces after the dive. During the evening we steamed over to our German channel mooring where we spent the night.
Our first dive on Sunday was a trip over to German channel, we saw our first white tip sharks of the week and a large stingray cruised through the group, towards the end of the dive we were lucky to see a Manta ray being cleaned on the cleaning station. Next up was a nice wall dive at big drop off, this wall is covered in many soft corals and massive sea fans, the top of the reef is full of beautiful small reef fish like the Regal angel fish and the Pyramid butterfly fish. After lunch we briefed on the use of reef hooks and headed out to New drop off and tried out our new skills with the hook, we saw a few white tip sharks and a nice school of barracuda. Our last dive of the day was at Negdebus coral garden where we saw a couple of nice cuttlefish who flashed us with their brilliant color changes.
Monday morning started bright and early at the world famous Blue corner, this dive site totally dazzled our guests with a quite amazing array of marine life from huge grey reef sharks, massive schools of Black snapper, Giant trevely and stripped jacks, the reef plateau is full of moray eels, grouper and barracuda, as always we were joined by our friendly family of Napoleon wrasse who always but a great show for our guests. In the afternoon we did the dive next door to blue corner which is blue holes, this spectacular cavern is a dive not to be missed and is home to the famous disco clams which give out an electric blue flash if you shine a light on them.
We hit German channel on Tuesday and again we saw a couple of manta rays which is always a nice way to start the day. We hooked into blue corner next and was treated to a nice current which enabled us to use our reef hooks, everybody had a great interaction with a really friendly Hawksbill turtle who decided to take his breakfast with us. We stormed the beaches of Peleliu in the afternoon and had a few hours exploring the WW2 sights with tour guide Tanji. Our diving continued in the late afternoon at German channel coral garden.
Wednesday morning began at the Blue holes and everybody enjoyed the amazing cavern dive, we moved to Negerchong island next and had a couple of really great dives on the inside and outside of the island. We found an excellent array of marine life including a bunch of cuttlefish, pipefish and some octopus hiding in the reef. We visited Jelly fish lake in the afternoon and enjoyed a very nice snorkel with the millions of Jelly fish that reside here.
We headed east to Ulong island at first light on Thursday morning with Siaes tunnel being our first dive of the day, next up was block rocking Ulong channel where we saw many sharks in the mouth of the channel and admired the wonderful formation of the cabbage corals. The afternoon was spent at Siaes corner and sandy paradise where we had a very friendly Marble ray who did a lap of honor around our guests. We headed to Shark city on our last day of diving, and also made a return trip to Ulong channel, our last dive of the week was at the majestic chandelier caves which is a perfect way to end a hectic fantastic week on the Tropic dancer.
The crew would like to thank Mikhail, Olesia, Alisa, Vivo, Lenara, Maxim, Irina, Sergey, Daria, Sergey, Victoria, Yuri, Anton and Alexander for coming to see us in Palau this week. Special words to go to Daria who at only twelve has already hit 50 dives so well done to you. Also well done to maxim and Lenara who came to Palau with no ocean dives but now leave as expert divers.
Written by
Kris Mears
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Captain's Log - Tropic Dancer
Log Date: Sat 2 June, 2012
Location: Palau
Entry By: Tropic Dancer Crew
May 26 - June 2, 2012
For our latest charter we welcomed group leader Mikhail and thirteen of his friends from the Moscow and St Petersburg area of Russia. We departed the dock early on Saturday afternoon and did our check out dive on the Helmet wreck in Malakal harbor. It was Maxims and Lenaras first even dive in the ocean and they had a great time by the look on their faces after the dive. During the evening we steamed over to our German channel mooring where we spent the night.
Our first dive on Sunday was a trip over to German channel, we saw our first white tip sharks of the week and a large stingray cruised through the group, towards the end of the dive we were lucky to see a Manta ray being cleaned on the cleaning station. Next up was a nice wall dive at big drop off, this wall is covered in many soft corals and massive sea fans, the top of the reef is full of beautiful small reef fish like the Regal angel fish and the Pyramid butterfly fish. After lunch we briefed on the use of reef hooks and headed out to New drop off and tried out our new skills with the hook, we saw a few white tip sharks and a nice school of barracuda. Our last dive of the day was at Negdebus coral garden where we saw a couple of nice cuttlefish who flashed us with their brilliant color changes.
Monday morning started bright and early at the world famous Blue corner, this dive site totally dazzled our guests with a quite amazing array of marine life from huge grey reef sharks, massive schools of Black snapper, Giant trevely and stripped jacks, the reef plateau is full of moray eels, grouper and barracuda, as always we were joined by our friendly family of Napoleon wrasse who always but a great show for our guests. In the afternoon we did the dive next door to blue corner which is blue holes, this spectacular cavern is a dive not to be missed and is home to the famous disco clams which give out an electric blue flash if you shine a light on them.
We hit German channel on Tuesday and again we saw a couple of manta rays which is always a nice way to start the day. We hooked into blue corner next and was treated to a nice current which enabled us to use our reef hooks, everybody had a great interaction with a really friendly Hawksbill turtle who decided to take his breakfast with us. We stormed the beaches of Peleliu in the afternoon and had a few hours exploring the WW2 sights with tour guide Tanji. Our diving continued in the late afternoon at German channel coral garden.
Wednesday morning began at the Blue holes and everybody enjoyed the amazing cavern dive, we moved to Negerchong island next and had a couple of really great dives on the inside and outside of the island. We found an excellent array of marine life including a bunch of cuttlefish, pipefish and some octopus hiding in the reef. We visited Jelly fish lake in the afternoon and enjoyed a very nice snorkel with the millions of Jelly fish that reside here.
We headed east to Ulong island at first light on Thursday morning with Siaes tunnel being our first dive of the day, next up was block rocking Ulong channel where we saw many sharks in the mouth of the channel and admired the wonderful formation of the cabbage corals. The afternoon was spent at Siaes corner and sandy paradise where we had a very friendly Marble ray who did a lap of honor around our guests. We headed to Shark city on our last day of diving, and also made a return trip to Ulong channel, our last dive of the week was at the majestic chandelier caves which is a perfect way to end a hectic fantastic week on the Tropic dancer.
The crew would like to thank Mikhail, Olesia, Alisa, Vivo, Lenara, Maxim, Irina, Sergey, Daria, Sergey, Victoria, Yuri, Anton and Alexander for coming to see us in Palau this week. Special words to go to Daria who at only twelve has already hit 50 dives so well done to you. Also well done to maxim and Lenara who came to Palau with no ocean dives but now leave as expert divers.
Written by
Kris Mears
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