Dive Boat Day 2 - Dives 1 to 4

We woke at 6.50am for breakfast, before jumping into the cool 25 degree waters in our 5mm wetsuits...



Tested the camera housings and ventured around the "Cod Hole" bumping into some whopper 150kg potato cod. Pretty cool creatures who were very friendly. Visibility was good and it was nice to get a decent dive in.... its been a while since we had a good one.

The next dive at the same site involved the cod being fed some pilchard. Although this goes against my "passive interaction" philosophy, these cod have been fed for 15 years and are naturally expectant of food now.

It was fun, and the big boys bumped my camera lens a fair few times...


Dive 3, was Pixies Pinnacle, a small pinnacle in the middle of nowhere. We saw a shark on the start of the dive.... just a small whitetip, and a flame file shell.... which you should look up on youtube as a photograph cannot do it justice... very cool.


Dive 4, was a night dive at Challenger Bay. We saw lots of cool stuff including Whitetip Shark, Octopus, Moray Eels, Blue Spotted Ray. The big thing about this site is the Jacks (Trevallys) who swim quietly behind you in large numbers looking at fish they can eat by using the light from your torch. You don't know they are there until they zoom past you to munch on their next poor victim... It was a bloodbath!

Tired and hungry, we ate and went to bed to prepare for a rough crossing into international waters and "Osprey Reef"