Another day another course…
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So this last week has been a bit of a teaching fest with an advanced course, straight on to an Open Water referral which led on to another advanced course! But throughout all this we had some great dives, with a day in Ras Mo and one in Tiran during the advanced courses. We had some great stuff too, with the highlight being an enormous manta ray on one of our rarely dived local sites! Pinky’s Wall. This site was named after the lush covering of soft pink corals that used to adorn the wall of this dive, however sadly due to over diving, snorkelling and probably most damaging of all, hotel construction, the wall itself is now pretty barren. In fact it is a site I had never dived, simply because it was not worth it, so none of the boats ever went there. Well, this site has had a sudden replenishing of its popularity due to the arrival of a group of manta rays! They have been here for a few weeks now, so every afternoon, you will see three or four dive boats hanging around waiting to collect divers on a quest to see mantas. And when we dived it, we were not disappointed. We were graced by the presence of an enormous manta gliding below us. It was a good 4m across and barely moved, yet was flying so fast we couldn’t keep up. Amazing! Sadly after a few weeks of daily whale shark reports, I haven’t heard of any for a couple of days. On another note we are inches away from having our own range of funky DiveBunnie Tees available for retail! Those of you popping over to Sharm will be able to sport your own Sharm el Sheikh DB Tees, showing you don’t have to be dull to be a diver. |