Posts Tagged ‘Chromis’
Tuesday, November 17th, 2009
Hello everyone!
Monday, November 11th finds the Video Dude, along with Faboo dive buddy “Hall of Famous” Joanie, aboard Scubatyme III heading out to the ever-popular wreck of the “Sea Emperor” for a relaxing morning of diving. Captain Bob is at the helm and Divemaster Goddess Amanda is assisting everyone on deck as we head out on flat seas to our destination. Along the way we see a pod of Dolphins cavorting and jumping our wake. Captain Bob makes a couple of circles so we can see the dolphins and to give them a nice wake to play in. It was a great start to the morning and a good omen of things to come!
We arrive at the “Sea Emperor” and after Amanda ties off the descent line, Joanie and I head for the bottom. I nearly landed on the resident Stingray, who was out and about already. I had several face-to-face encounters, with the stingray occasionally brushing my camera and once even hitting it head-on! I always love to watch the grace of a “flying” stingray, they make it look so effortless! Captain Bob gave me some crackers to feed to the fish, so I went over to the sand and started feeding them so everyone could get pictures. We also found one of the resident Green Morays, and I found a 6ft Nurse Shark over amongst the pipes next to the wreck. We also came across a sick-looking Midnight Parrotfish who seemed to be having trouble just moving it’s fins to stay in one spot.
After our surface interval, we head over to Abbey Too Reef. Visibility on the bottom was much improved from the day before, but the east/west surge was stronger. We did see about 7 Lobsters all total though. No other critters besides the usual Grunts, Squirrelfish and Chromis.
So that’s about it. Good seas, Faboo dive buddy, better visibility and still warm water temps, plus a cool stingray encounter and a fish-feeding made for a great morning!
Still diving in Paradise (even in November!),
The Video Dude
Tags: Abbey Too, Chromis, Dolphins, Green Moray, Grunts, Joanie, Lobster, Midnight Parrotfish, Nurse Shark, Scubatyme, Sea Emperor, Squirrelfish, stingray, Video Dude
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Sunday, September 6th, 2009
Hello everyone!
Today I had the opportunity to be a guide for a couple of newly-certified divers, Christine and Brad. Today was to be their first local boat dives since getting certified, and they were both excited and anxious to get in the water and have fun. We went out on “Scubatyme III” and Enzo, Captain Dave, and Amanda all treated us very well. We did two drift dives - “Anglin’ Pier Reef” and “Radical Rubble Reef” and, although the skies were gray up top, the scenery was beautiful down below. We even had a very curious French Angel come over to play with us!! We saw lots of Angelfish, Grunts, Jellyfish, Arrow Crabs and Chromis. Very small current on both dives, visibility was around 50ft and bottom temp was around 82 degrees.
A beautiful couple of dives and a very relaxing day here in Paradise!
The Video Dude
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Tags: Angelfish, Anglin' Pier Reef, Arrow Crabs, Chromis, dive guide, French Angel, Grunts, guide, Jellyfish, Radical Rubble Reef, Scubatyme
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