The Dives:

Dives:
1. 3/23- Helmut Wreck- 87’ Low vis
2. 3/23- German Channel- 75’ Didn’t see any Manta’s
3. 3/24- Turtle Cove- 86’ entered a hole in the top of the reef and came out to a fabulous wall dive
4. 3/24- Turtle Wall- 86’ wall dive- lots to see
5. 3/24- Big Drop Off- 78’- wall dive- slight current- tons of soft and hard corals
6. 3/24- Blue Corner- 87’- Current was ripping- very cool dive- tons of sharks, barracuda’s, and Blue Wrasse Napoleon followed us around
7. 3/25- Blue Corner- 84’- no current on south side, swam over to other side of shelf, but current was too much to get to hooking point.
8. 3/25- Ngedebus Wall- 84’- wall dive- lots to see
9. 3/25- Paleliu Express- 86’- drift dive- ripping current- very cool
10. 3/25 Orange Beach- 72’- nice current- lots to see from WWII
11. 3/25- Orange Beach- Night Dive- 51’- drift dive- current got strong at end of dive- lots to see-
12. 3/26- Yellow Wall- 88’- not much to see- lots of sea fans and turtles
13. 3/26- Paleliu Cut- 78’- Major ripping current- very advanced dive with eddys and extremely strong current. Used reef hooks and the current would have blown my mask off if I turned my head. Tons of sharks and lots of action. Finished off the dive with a drift into blue water to do the safety stop at 15’. Not for the faint of heart
14. 3/26- Paleliu Wall- 77’- Wall dive- good current- lots of action- drift dive
15. 3/26- White Beach- 80’- Cool Wall dive- drift dive- cool rays
16. 3/27- Virgin Blue Hole- 109’- enter through hole and come out at 85’ then through shaft to 109’ then out to wall for drift dive. Not much current until you got to the wall, then it was a nice drift dive
17. 3/27- Blue Holes- 86’- low tide- couldn’t enter holes from top, but swam into the hole from the bottom to check it out, then did a drift dive to Blue Corner where we laid hooks and hung out watching for a while
18. 5/27- Barnum Wall- 67’- Sheer wall- lots to see- tons of rays and turtles
19. 5/27- New Drop Off- 81’- Very difficult dive- current took you up/down/in/out- must have great buoyancy skills for this dive. Hooked for a while in the current and surge then finished with a drift dive when the current reversed
20. 3/27- Big Drop Off- Night Dive- 47’- Night diving at it’s best- so much to see- didn’t want to come back up! Explosion of color- wall dive- all the stuff came out that you don’t see in the day
21. 3/28- Blue Corner- 87’- Current dive- used Reef Hook and watched the action- tons of sharks, and saw a hammerhead. Said hi to the Napoleon that we saw on the last dives
22. 3/28- New Drop Off- 72’- water was very cold- strange currents- swirling, not enough in one direction to use hooks, so we just did a drift dive and went where the current took us.
23. 3/28- Jellyfish Lake- snorkel- very cool place- tons of jellyfish- coolest snorkel I ever did- like swimming in Jell-O! They really don’t sting! Very beautiful and elegant
24. 3/28- Mandarin Lake- 15’- dusk/night dive- watched the mandarins mating- got lots of pictures- very cool fish!
25. 3/29- Chuyo Meru- 96’- Vis was poor, but lots to see- boat was in pretty good shape for being so old- Saw a frogfish- they are U-G-L-Y!
26. 3/29- Jakes Sea Plane- 50’- good vis- plane was in pretty good shape- part of the wing and the tail were ripped off from being bombed in the air. Glass in the cockpit was still intact. Good coral garden around the plane- saw a cuttlefish and nudibranch!
27. 3/29- Chandelier Cave- 41’- cool cave dive- good vis- 4 chamber dive with air pockets in each of the chambers. Tons of Mandarin fish around cave