I was Dive Master today and gave the dive briefing. There were quite a few new divers in the group so we decided to cancel The Leap and do a double dive at The Steps.
At the shop in the morning about 5 of the divers were really unsure about how much weight they would need and admitted to not having been for a dive in over 3 months. The tide was high and there was quite a bit of white water on the rocks. If we had a group we were familiar with then we would have done The Leap but with all the fresh faces it wasn't worth the risk.
Double Dive at the Steps without incident but I did forget my camera so no pictures or video this week
Dive 1: I took a group of 5 East through average visibility. A big friendly Blue Groper accompanied us most of the way. We saw weedy Seadragons, nice sponge gardens, a few Nudibrancs and Leatherjackets. We took our safety stop on the white rocks and had about 100M surface swim to the exit with the current.
Dive2: I took a group of 7 West as we had past high tide and the current was now heading East. We saw large schools of yellow tails, various species of LeatherJackets, Eastern Blue Gropers and Green Gropers (females). We swam back through the shallower swimthroughs and surfaced with one diver down to 50 bar. Most others still had half a tank so it pays to go off on your own sometimes.We had about a 50M surface swim with the current to the exit.
Next Week Underwater Navigation course.
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