After the first test dive on Monday and three successful survey dives in GDT sites yesterday (Mama Nature a.k.a Middle Reef, Chief Minister and Wind Mills), today we went to Salt Cay.
This time with Blue Waters Divers boat in the hands of Daniel, we arrived in Salt Cay in 33 minutes and after loading the tanks on the boat we went to the first site: Three Pillars.
After the surface interval (very well used to have some snacks and water/juice and rest) we started with the second site survey that was located very close to the first one: Shark site, wishing that the name was only an anecdote and not a descriptive note...
We did this second one in about 45 minutes. It shows that we (us, the rookies...) are getting better at this or at least we are getting faster ...
We used the opportunity to stop and take a look at the recently sunk airplane (just sunk this morning...) that will become a new dive site and the boat sunk around one month ago.
Back to the shore to leave the empty tanks around 2.30 pm in a few minutes we were ready to go back to Grand Turk and this time the ride was about 24 minutes. I guess it was a record for Daniel.
It was a very nice day and we took pictures of the Salt Cay Reef Check team. Here 2 pics. One taken by the team leader Marlon and the other taken by me.
Fernando is in the picture but he was doing the Reef Check in Grand Turk the first day. Today he went to Salt Cay to help in the "airplane sinking" stuff.
Tomorrow we will do the last dive in Salt Cay and the final assessment to close the activities. Jody (the Environmental Officer) told us that, ideally this survey should be done 4 times a year, but they usually do it twice
since there are not enough resources. Let's hope this year we can do it more than twice...
See you tomorrow...
This time with Blue Waters Divers boat in the hands of Daniel, we arrived in Salt Cay in 33 minutes and after loading the tanks on the boat we went to the first site: Three Pillars.
After the surface interval (very well used to have some snacks and water/juice and rest) we started with the second site survey that was located very close to the first one: Shark site, wishing that the name was only an anecdote and not a descriptive note...
We did this second one in about 45 minutes. It shows that we (us, the rookies...) are getting better at this or at least we are getting faster ...
We used the opportunity to stop and take a look at the recently sunk airplane (just sunk this morning...) that will become a new dive site and the boat sunk around one month ago.
Back to the shore to leave the empty tanks around 2.30 pm in a few minutes we were ready to go back to Grand Turk and this time the ride was about 24 minutes. I guess it was a record for Daniel.
It was a very nice day and we took pictures of the Salt Cay Reef Check team. Here 2 pics. One taken by the team leader Marlon and the other taken by me.
Fernando is in the picture but he was doing the Reef Check in Grand Turk the first day. Today he went to Salt Cay to help in the "airplane sinking" stuff.
Tomorrow we will do the last dive in Salt Cay and the final assessment to close the activities. Jody (the Environmental Officer) told us that, ideally this survey should be done 4 times a year, but they usually do it twice
since there are not enough resources. Let's hope this year we can do it more than twice...
See you tomorrow...
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