Aliwal Shoal sightings 18 April

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A great dive was had today.  Excellent underwater conditions, even with a moderate N – S current pushing inshore.  At least 4 large spotted eagle rays were sighted, within touching distance of divers.  2 potato bass, a manta ray and 3 female ragged tooth sharks inside Cathedral.

Yesterday dive at Aliwal Shoal

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Ahead of the south westerly that came through, we had a brilliant single tank dive with some macro sightings of an osscilated snake eel, green paper fish, pipefish, large green turtle, some stunning nudibranches and of course, we were sung to by what sounded like a massive pod of bottlenose dolphins that we just could […]

Superb double tank dive

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Despite the surge and swell, we had an amazing double tank dive.  First dive to Cathedral we got 5 raggies inside Cathedral.  Having the sand flying about made the dive all the more eerie as the sharks were pushed closer to us with the overhead swell.  One large male was particularly inquisitive and made many […]

Dive sightings yesterday

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We had a fantastic drift dive yesterday, from North Sands, through to South Sands and onto Eelskin.  Along the way, we had at least 12 bottlenose dolphins underwater with us on scuba, we sighted a guitar shark and got 7 blacktip sharks near Eelskin.  Viz was brilliant and the drift produced an amazing amount of […]