Date : 11th June 2008 Time : 57mins
Depth : 15.5m Temp : 15 C
This time we dived the ledges just after high tide. We jumped in a little after slack water and headed west as the current was taking us in the opposite direction to the dive a few days ago.
The good news is that the plankton bloom has pretty much died away so there was plenty of light and nice viz, 5m. We saw a few congar eels, one of which must have been pretty big as it had a huge head which was poking out of a hole on the reef ledge. I also spotted a few soul, spider crabs and some great big table crabs. I must get into eating crab a bit more often as there have been some good ones around. Though I doubt they will be there for long. Just one lobster this time and he was definitely too smart for me.
As requested by Phil (who did a brief before the dive) I put my surface marker buoy up after 25 mins. It turned out that the skipper (Paul Dyer, Brighton Diver II) thought that we were all putting them up when we hit the bottom. So he was a bit spooked floating around on the surface without any markers to follow for half an hour! Let’s all salute Phil for his great communication skills!! And thanks for picking us all up Paul!
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