Martha and I dive the Big Coral Knoll
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| Green Sea Turtle (Chelonia mydas) |
Martha and I left the house about 7:35 am for Tower 17 and a dive on the Big Coral Knoll and the Fish Camp Rocks without students. I took my camera. We got a good parking spot behind Tower 17 and geared up. We got in the water a little after 8:00 am swam out past the buoy line to descend at 8:35 am.
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| Juvenile Blackear Wrasse (Halichoeres poeyi) |
Visibility was good: at least 20 ft. I had some problems with the switch on the strobe battery. The Ready Light would be on but the strobe would not fire. I think it was just a bad connection in the battery switch because I played with it and it settled down after about 20 minutes.
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| Juvenile Queen Angelfish (Holacanthus ciliaris) |
Missed the blocks, in part because the buoy immediately to our North has been missing. Without it, I can't know where to descend. We swim due East and usually run into some landmark I recognize. This time, it was the
coral head with a head, which leads to some larger rocks and ultimately the Perpendicular Rocks. From there we sent North to the Swept Rock and were on the Knoll.
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| Green Sea Turtle (Chelonia mydas) |
Early in the dive I spotted a young Green Turtle. Martha was on the other side of the Knoll and I couldn't get her attention without losing the turtle so I went up hoping she would see me following the turtle, but she didn't.
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| Striped Burrfish (Chilomycterus schoepfi) |
Shot a lot of pictures and got some good shots. including these two shots of a Striped Burrfish.
Water was 77 degrees according to my computer, but I was cold. We turned the dive at 1000 psi and swam back to the beach.
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| Striped Burrfish (Chilomycterus schoepfi) |
Dive time was 100 minutes, maximum depth was 21 feet and bottom temperature was 77 degrees. My SAC was 18.04 psi /minute and my RMV was 0.47 cubic feet per minute.
My pictures from this time are posted at the following link: 10 April 2019_Big Coral Knoll
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