SHARK CAVE april 25

another great day of diving!  a bit of rock and roll on the surface, due to the high winds, didn’t stop us from having a blast diving today.  Baby Barge was calling to us, as we had more divers looking to see some sharks, and the shark cave at Baby Barge has been occupied frequently lately!  Wind was out of the NE and the current was heading NE, perfect conditions for not using the line all the way to the wreck, and instead, doing a free descent directly under the boat.  having already briefed our divers on this possibility, we dropped off the line and headed to the cave, around 75 feet. and inside was a huge turtle!  wow, he was really big and ready for some diver fingers! just kidding!!   Heading along the ledge to the wreck we spotted several more turtles just relaxing on the bottom, as well as some big green-head morays, plus loads of reef fish.   the wreck at 90 feet is quite a spectacular ruin, having imploded gradually, leaving fantastical shapes in the blue.  Ray from Norway was out doing his AOW and Nitrox work – good job ray!  also out was Aussie rick, who has done some famous shark dives himself – Beqa Lagoon in Fiji, and the Neptune Islands with its great white Shark cage-dives off Adelaide.    don’t think he had a problems seeing some of our reef sharks!! DM paul, wife natalie, and amika were also out for fun!  2nd jump was a drift of Spitting Cave with a big checkmark next to the Shark Box!!!  two nice whitetips, lots of turtles, more eels, frogfish, and large schools of reef fish, along with great viz, and perfect current gave us a fantastic  ride in the blue.  thanks to all, larry, max, joe