What a great day…the sun was out and we had lots of fun people on the boat. The seas were 2-3ft with a strong North bound current. It was difficult to stay on the site because of the current but it turned out to be rather fun. The water temp was 71 degrees and the vis was around 20ft, so not the best diving conditions BUT the topside action was AMAZING! We dove the Corridor Wreck trek for the first dive. We got down there and saw 4 Goliath Groupers and 2 loggerhead turtles. After the dives we surfaced and from the boat we saw a beautiful golden colored hammerhead. We followed it and a second hammerhead shark showed up. The second shark was black as night, and the two sharks swam to eachother and did circles, looked like ting & tang. So neat, but they dove before a photo could be taken. The second sight we dove was the back-side of Breaker’s reef. Again, the current was pushing but we saw lots of neat creatures: more turtles, angelfish, and spadefish. Thanks for the dives!

The past week has been exciting with some amazing underwater encounters and a lot of fun with a great group of divers. We’ve had numerous shark encounters on the reefs including caribbean reefs, lemons, bulls, and great hammerheads. The turtles have been in great numbers, too. Hawksbills, loggerheads, greens, and even a leatherback in the inlet; not far from Phil Foster park. The marine life in Palm Beach is always breathtaking.

Water temperatures having been climbing into the mid to upper 70′s, except for a thermocline that brought the water down to 55 degrees for a couple of days, but thankfully that chilly water left as quickly as it arrived.

We’ve been fortunate to have a diverse and great group of divers throughout the week to join us on our scuba adventures. Come out and experience Palm Beach diving at its best.

Feb 23, 2011 Dive Report
Dive 1: Shark Canyon
Dive 2: Mid Reef

We had a great group of people out diving with us! We were greeted out of the inlet that morning with a pod of Spotted Dolphins so we new today was going to be good! The seas were calm, vis 40ft, but man was it COLD 59 degrees!!!! We tried to dive the Princess Anne but the fishing boats were all over the site so we went North and had a great dive on Shark Canyon…with no sharks but lots of turtles and a huge school of Spade Fish!

Second site was Mid Reef which had lots of life to it…got some great photos of reef fish. Came back into the dock and we enjoyed a great sunset!
Thanks for diving with us!

So if you read the Dec 27th post your about to get your dive gear out and ready for this day! The air temperature finally let up and we went out to dive Juno Ledge. But we got reports of bad visibility so we ended up at Split Reef. This is one of our deeper reef systems (80 ft), and we saw lobster hanging out in the ledges there. The vis was okay (20 ft) but Captain Sean wanted to find us blue waters so we travelled south to the shallow reefs. Along the way we encountered 2 mola molas (sunfish) on the surface, but they were really shy and I couldn’t get any good photos of them.

Second dive was at the Trench. This was a first for me, the site actually has a trench that we follow along to the reef. And in this trench we had 2 huge nurse sharks, sea turtles, and lionfish. What a fun dive and the vis was much better (40 ft). After the dive we started heading home and was joined by a pod of 50 Spotted dolphin. They had a few babies with them and they were moving fast! We looked up and towards the shore and a big black back caught our eye…it was a WHALE! We stayed our distance so that we wouldn’t scare it and when it surfaced that double spout was easy to id…it was a North Atlantic Right Whale. This whale was probably 40 ft long and it was traveling north. What a neat encounter!!! Made my day!!!