Happy Canada Day from Alaska Fantastic beautiful 3 dimensional rich walls today accompanied by fantastic ballet of stellar sealions. Maggie Beaten up by stellar sealions today. It was great. Dave Ballet of the stellar sealions was fabulous. Oh wow, beautiful soft coral today. Robbie. Wonderful day today. Great dive with stellar sealions. They are not scary. Just playful and curious and they like the taste of […]
Read MoreEureka Platform sits in around 500 feet of water which makes it an oasis in the ocean desert. After getting permission from the platform thanks to the help of Captain Mike (is it a rule that all Captains get renamed Mike?) of the supply vessel Isabel El, we staged two dives here and the general consensus was that it was well worth the skiff ride. There is a very definite vertical line as you descend where the mussels leave off and the anemones take over at about 30 feet. There is also a marked difference between the life on each of the legs which presumably is due to differing light conditions and water movement. Some legs were covered in strawberry anemones, others in the white metridium. In amongst the anemones were barnacles and small amounts of kelp, sponges and corals.
Read MoreDiving conditions are good although the visibility is still somewhat “bloomy” after a couple of weeks of clear skies and sunshine. Our guests are very happy and quite a few folks have commented that the wall at Rita’s Rock is better and even more interesting (varied?) than the world-famous Browning Wall (which was rated as the number one dive site in North America 2two years running by Rodales Scuba Diving).
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