Current State of the Currents

The weather started off rainy this morning as we left the dock but everything turned out great as the day continued.  There was little swell and a strong current for our first dive today.  We decided on trying to drift the barges with the strong current and great viz.  We descended on Baby Barge but the current was running slightly inshore which pulled us away from the barges but there was still life to be seen. We had green sea turtles around the wreck and a few more along the reef.  We also had a spotted eagle ray swim by and tons of reef fish everywhere.

For the second dive we motored around Diamond Head to the YO-257.  Again there was a decent current as we got down to the wreck and had a great dive swimming around the wreck.  There were more turtles about the area and fish everywhere. We had blue stripe snapper and soldier fish in the YO and buttterflyfish and damsels swimming about the wreck.  We had a great time with the Atlantis sub cruising around as we were diving.

For the last dive of the day we drifted Spitting Caves and had a nice current for the dive.  There were again more turtles on the dive and plenty of great sea life.  We had schools of yellow stripe goatfish and milletseed butterflyfish along the reef. We also found a large frogfish and even a small white tip reef shark hiding in a cave.  The current eventually took us off the reef all together and it was time to end the dive. It was a great morning off the Sea Fox.