Summer must be officially over, first day with winds out of the NW, albeit very light winds. Seas flat, visibility 100′+ with over cast sky. Alan Weiss, the dad, along with Brandon and Cameron (from California) did the shark site today. Cameron makes watches and had made a watch for the dive, which worked fine; he also was testing and photographing a watch made with a “clip on dive computer”, which seemed to work just fine as well.
Daryl was utilizing hie ELF tool (Eliminate Lion Fish) to do exactly what it was designed to do, eliminate lion fish, which the sharks are just giddy about helping remove once disabled. In the above photo the lion fish is the dark spot on the sandy bottom to the left of the divers and the shark. The video below is the shark doing its part to eliminate lion fish.
Once you feed them one lion fish they become more curious and come in closer and in greater numbers, one of them must be the “town crier” alerting the others.
Here is another Lion Fish elimination with the help of the Reef Sharks
Swimming around the Pinnacle we encounter more sharks and a spotted Morey freely moving out in the open,
All in all a couple of great dives on a beautiful day, water temperature around 83-84 degrees, flat calm and diving with some good divers and a whole bunch of Reef Sharks.
A great time of the year to come diving, no crowds (although there are never really “crowds” on Eleuthera), great weather and lots of friendly folks and great restaurants with terrific food.
,,,”Ocean Fox Cotton Bay diving……..anything else is just a surface interval”
