Scubamoose

Date : 2nd July 2008

Time : 54 mins

Depth : 12.5m

Temp : 17 C

Ok, so I wasn’t paying enough attention to the skipper on this occasion and didn’t note which of the ledges we were diving on, but by the looks of it we started out at the far western end of the Kings Ledges.

Mark Threadgold and I jumped off the boat and headed down the shot line. At the bottom we secured ourselves with a buddy line (a necessary step when diving with Mark, google him or search for him on this site) and made off west along the ridge line as the tide was starting to come in after a low.

Mark put up an SMB straight away as requested by Paul Dyer (skipper) and we mostly drifted with the current. I spotted a couple of small lobsters along the way, plenty of fish, tube worms and a congar which was leaping around rather alot in it’s lair. There was the usual abundance of a variety of crabs and star fish and then towards the end of the dive we stumbled on a large, relaxed and friendly cuttle fish. Mark and I had to stop for a minute or two as there were other divers around and I didn’t want to get our SMB line snagged with someone elses. So I messed about signaling with two fingers to the cuttle fish whilst waiting for the others to go by. It was very receptive and started waving it’s two large tentacles back. Great fun

It’s not often that I have come across a cuttle fish in such a good mood and that definitely topped off a great fun dive.