Dive Site: The Point
Maximum Depth: 35 meters
Maximum Bottom Time: 50 mins
Time In: 8.00am
Visibility: Approximately 20 meters
Underwater Temperature: Thermocline 25 DCelcius to 29 DCelcius @ 20 meter
Current: Mild towards North-West
There were 11 divers including myself on this dive. Scenery underwater was beautiful blue but dark as well
I first noticed a solitary white-tip shark on the bottom sea at 12 meters.
At the corner of my eyes, I spotted a school of jackfish to the right. Immediately I notified my divers & they zoomed towards the school. It was amazing being in the big school, especially when suddenly a huge Dogtooth Tuna whisked into the school, trying to catch its breakfast. It was like a bom was dropped in between the school except that we couldn’t hear the “bang” sound that an actual bom will give out.
A small school of 10-15 Chevron Barracudas were behind my preoccupied divers. I didn’t bother to tell them of the barracudas’ presence as everyone were so into the jackfish school.
Slowly, we made our way into the blue. It was way too quiet, so I decided to turn towards Dogtooth Lair’s direction looking for more action. Just 10 second later, I heard banging of tanks behind me. It was one of my diver, pointing up above us towards the blue.
Hammerhead! Swimming gracefully alongside our group. There was a line of thermocline above us where a darkish water was below the line while beautiful water blue above the line. The hammerhead hang around for about 2 mins before slowly swimming away into the blue. From where I was, I can see how entranced my fellow divers were with the hammerhead. And I can see how satisfied everyone was because this time there was no chasing by anybody. (Later on the boat, some of my divers told me they actually saw 2 hammerheads in the beginning. A few photograhers were very lucky to get really clear, sharp still shots of one of the hammerhead.)
We proceeded back to the reef for the remaining of our dive. Saw a few more white-tips. Some triggerfish nest (of what a pain they are!!!). Small school of batfish on the shallow reef. Many beautiful species of reef fishes. One really big green moray eel.
We did our safety stop together before ending the dive.
A really nice dive to begin the day. The end.
