Friday, 14 October 2016

137. Sharks


On my day off I went for a two-tank boat dive with Tortuga Divers. Tortuga have their center at Morritt’s Resort, on the east end of Grand Cayman, a beautiful forty-minute drive from George Town. James had very kindly invited me.

Thanks Nigel and Sarah and all Red Sail crew for an amazing day

Our first dive was to High Rock, on the south coast. Spectacular. Then we dove Big House, which was incredible. Swimming through tunnels in the coral, like secret passageways. Unfortunately my camera broke down; it was the most colorful dive yet – lots of blue and purple sponges, some huge lobsters.

Nigel spotted and speared two lionfish, and not long after an 8ft nurse shark came to check it out. My calf was bleeding (looks like ink at 60 feet) from scraping some coral. One of the other divers was also cut. The shark was swimming amongst us until one diver tried to touch its tail; it swam off and the diver got told off. A few minutes later it came back, and a bigger reef shark also appeared.


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