Whale shark, raggies 13th November

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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 […]

Aliwal Shoal 13th November

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Brilliant dive conditions for today.  At least 20m viz, top to bottom from the boat, water temperature an inviting 23 degrees C, light S – N current.  By 11h00, the N east had started to pick up but visibility on the 2nd dive remained outstanding.  Interesting launch from the Umkomaas launch site today.  Well worth […]

Umzimayi Wall 30th October

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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

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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

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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.  […]