Category: Sightings
Rocky Bay dive sites – southernmost extremes of Aliwal Shoal
Whale shark, raggies 13th November
An amazing day of diving today. Aside from the excellent visibility and warmer water, we had a whaleshark behind backline on the return trip in between dives, 5m in size. Most on the boat got the chance to snorkel with it. At least 3 raggies on the dive to Raggie Cave, along with 2 green […]
Umzimayi Wall 30th October
A FABULOUS dive was had here with our special clients. Viz at least 25m, moderate S – N current, 19 degrees C at the bottom with 21 degrees C midwater. This site produced long nose hawkfish nestled in their favourite black branched coral tree, a juvenile clown trigger fish trying to hide it’s spectacular colours […]
4 shark species on 1 dive today
Well…………..today has been the most mind-blowing of days. On our reef dive at Landers, we spotted a large yellow frogfish (painted angler fish) in one of the canyons. One of our divers had last seen one 20 years ago (no jokes) so he was absolutely overjoyed to be able to photograph this at leisure. On […]
Great Landers dive today
Our first dive of the day was to Landers, which produced magnificent sightings. A bright yellow frogfish, which stood out from everything else in one of the gullies, 2 raggies, a blacktip shark on the safety stop and absolutely magnificent topography on this site!!!! This dive is one of the best around in our area. […]
Superb visibility Wednesday 27th October
After 2 days of south westerly winds, we descended to superb visibility at Cathedral, with at least 25m visibility. 4 raggies were spotted at Cathedral. A superb drift dive along the outside edge up towards Pinnacles, where, now and again, the waves were breaking on the Pinnacles, indicating the remainder of a rough ocean. Our […]
Recent dives to Landers Deep (Canyons) and Cowrie reef
Yesterday’s dive at Landers Deep and today’s dive at Cowrie reef have been spectacular. Landers Deep is the most stunning dive with it’s topography and amazing array of soft corals and plant life. And the largest green tree coral that I have seen in sometime, teeming with beautiful sea goldies, a sight to behold for […]
5 shark species in just 2 days!!
Well what can we say………………….we have had the absolute privilege of 5 shark species in just 2 days of diving. Here is how it goes…………..Yesterday, raggies @ Landers on the reef dive. 2 Zambezi (Bull) sharks & 15 blacktips on the baited dive. Today’s reef dive at Cathedral produced 12 raggies in the amphitheatre, 3 […]
Zambezi sharks (Bull sharks) on our baited dive 12th October
Gosh what a fabulous day of diving, despite the south westerly wind that continued to blow and then drop off late afternoon. Our first dive of the day was a reef dive to Landers. Fantastic visibility (20m) welcomed us and as we descended, we found 2 female ragged tooth sharks just hovering in one of […]
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