Diving everyday, how does that sound?
Two months ago sounded just like a dream,
but now it's this week's reality.
Combine that with new dive sites and crazy
dolphins and you have magical, add some happy customers with the completion of
60 dives and the stamina tests left for being a
PADI Divemaster then it's rewarding.
Simply put, productive, amazing and beautiful week!
I started this week
with 54 dives in my logbook. Alice took us to the new dive site to start our day with 3 dives.
The
weather was just perfect, we saw the sun rising on the horizon and took some
pictures and we were kitted up and ready to go very quickly.
We had three
lovely dives, on the first we had a close encounter with a very curious octopus,
it kept swimming gracefully like a jet from one rock to the next while watching
us.
On the next dive Dennis realized that he had dropped his knife, so using his
slate we planned a search and recovery technique by positioning us 4 divers
horizontally next to each other going back with the same speed and looking for
it.
Andreas found the knife, his buoyancy control is now very impressive, he
always spots amazing creatures and now he found the knife as he usually glides
at shallower depths to have a broader view of what's around him.
I was leading
the third dive, we entered the water from the right most point of the coast. We
saw a huge starfish and a cuttle fish next to each other, as we got closer the
cuttle fish swam very fast till it disappeared in the distance. We then had a
relaxing dive where we saw some scorpion fish, red lipped blennies, another
octopus and some trumpet fish.
The next day we went to one of my most
favourite dive sites.
Poco Naufragio where the huge rays are. So we took the boat, descended instantly to the
deepest point of the site where the small wreck is waited for a couple of
minutes and this huge ray was coming from the distance.
I had a look on Alice and she was
covered with hundreds of fish so Pete decided we take a cruise around the site.
It was the first time we do that here at Poco Naufragio, we always descend stay
for a while with minimum movement then ascend back up.
But this time was really
interesting because it gave me an idea of what is really around. We saw an
octopus hiding under a rock. Pete was playing with his hand in front of the
octopus trying to "talk" to it and it worked, the octopus'
tentacles were trying to reach for Pete's hand!
Pretty impressive. On the
distance, we found huge spurts of octopus ink everywhere around us.
We saw one black moray eel coming out of a rock, then from the same rock a
brown moray appeared, then another Fangtooth moray appeared with some
spider crabs in the same hole.
It was absolutely magical to see all three
morays next to each other. We stayed there for some time taking pictures and
watching them.
Then it was time for us to make our
safety stop and go back on the boat.
Dennis had to choose the next dive
site of the day since it was his 60th dive! We all went to
yellow mountain and
had an amazing dive there.
We took the tour around Alien rock from the opposite direction which is always
interesting. There were so many divers around which was quite unusual.
After the dive and before we were ready to go
Pete spotted what seemed like a pack of dolphins hunting on the opposite
direction from the marina. But of course that doesn't matter.
When we went
there, there were at least 7-9 dolphins.
They surfaced higher than
usual, sometime almost jumping out of the water and so close you can hear them
breathe. A mother and it's calf were the highlight of the pack.
We kept watching
this happen for some time until three stupid jet skies were coming from
the distance and ruined the situation.
The next day we went to
Las Eras some customers.
It's always nice to go there because the rock formations are so
beautiful. It was my 60th dive.
The next dive
was to the pipeline and this still remains another one of my most favorite sites in
Tenerife.
Lydia was doing her
wreck diver speciality so we all went to
Tabaiba for two amazing wreck dives. Congratulations for Alice for teaching her
first wreck diver speciality course and for Lydia for becoming a new wreck diver
specialist!
It was my first wreck dive and I absolutely loved it. It's
relatively a big boat 6 years ago and already surrounded by loads of aquatic
life. Being there underwater around the wreck is just a great privilege and you
feel humbled by the size of this thing and the moment you are experience it.
Between the dives we
saw a pack of dolphins hunting close to the shore. This time they were not
surrounded by any boats so they felt free to jump as high as they can above the
water!
Our last two dives of the week were boat dives at
El Delfin and Pequeno Valle.
On the
first, we descended in deeper water and went looking for angel sharks.
Just
great! I could see his eyes watching us. Then we reached the rock formations.
And it was packed with wildlife, we then had a relaxed dive looking around and
taking pictures.
Back next week.
