Basking Sharks & good vis
We took ‘Atlantic Scuba 1′ out last Sunday to dive the wreck of the Caroni Rivers and ‘The Old Wall’. The sea was like a sheet of glass and the skies were cloudless. We watched the divers descend the shotline until all we could see were their cylinders in the distance. The vis was reported as being greater than 10m, from a depth of 15m they could see the boat on the surface.
On route to ‘The Old Wall’ we saw a lone Basking Shark, two of the divers snorkelled up and jumped in but the shark wasn’t being social and disappeared. The next divers jumped in on ‘The Old Wall’ with about 8m vis, the site is covered in kelp in the shallows, but as the kelp disappears the dead mans fingers and corals appear.
The previous day we dropped a group on the Rock Island Bridge wreck, a shallow wreck but with 6-7m vis and lots of life including a variety nudibranchs it is a pleasant dive. The divers came up with a few scallops for their suppers.