The highlight of the two dives in the morning was a Loggerhead turtle eating a jellyfish. This is something that I had never seen before. At frist it looked like he was just chomping on air... but then as I looked closer I could see this transparent substance with some purple on the edge, and that when I saw the jellyfish. He actually made it look kind of tasty! It was cool because we all stayed really still and watched him eat for about five minutes. When we got back on the boat I was relly excited and we were all talking about it, then Philip said "what turtle?" And I said "the one eating the jelly fish, the one we were looking at for 5 minutes." He hadn't seen it. I couldn't believe it. He was looking directly at it! It's like not seeing your mom come in with the birthday cake and candles. I told Philip he seriously needed to get some prescriptive lenses for his mask.
Then in the afternoon we went to the Dutch Side. This was the first time that I went to dive The Porpose and The Gregory since hurricane Omar and I was relieved. The Porpoise is on it's side. See before and after photos here.
So you can see that she has tilted about 45 degrees to the starboard. Think of the power that must have done this! She lies at a depth of about 95 feet, sothe waves must have been BIG. Also, look at the sand around the ship, there is a crater around it now. It is still a really cool dive, even more so now that we have seen the before and after.
We also dived the Gregory, and the most significant difference that I noticed was that a lot of the beautiful sponges around the wreck have been destroyed. There was lots of wildlife still though, spade fish..... stonefish.... lots of horse eyed jacks...
There was also a turtle, but I didn't get the photo. What is of note at the Gregory is now there is a bigger hole in the side of it, making it easier for divers to go inside. Although, we still all agree here that only very experienced divers (i.e. one's with wreck diver speciality, Divemaster or Instructor level) should go inside.
But I did maanage to get this cool pic when I went inside.
Some other fun photos from that trip are as follows....
A Jelly with some divers in the background
Chris not letting me take a photo of him, so showing me his butt instead! (I know... charming. Isn't my husband handsome? If you could only see his face!)
Max's siloutte coming up the shot line!
Helen and Sim.... DIVERS!
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