Reef Reports
Saturday, July
14th
Looe Key with Looe Key Reef Resort
Dives
1 & 2: Seas
0-1 foot’, water temp - 88 degrees,
current - slight, viz- 20’ at
best, Depth - 28 feet. Sightings
include 3- 4’ Goliath grouper, large blue
parrot fish eating, cowfish, green moray,
butterfly fish, large schools of sergeant
majors, hogfish snapper, small
shark.
-- ADA
Member Leah Bamford
Sunday, July
15th
Key West with Lost Reef Adventures
This trip was
intended for the Vandenberg wreck but when
we got there the current was ripping about
3 knots and it was unsafe to dive. So we
altered the dive plan to a wreck and a
reef.
Dive 1: Cayman
Salvage Master Wreck. Depth 80
feet, viz about 20 feet, water temp 84
degrees, current strong. This wreck
assisted in the Mariel Boat lift in 1980
and other notable missions. It was well
encrusted with coral. Some areas were
penetrable, if nothing else but to escape
the current. Sightings included numerous
fish schooling near the bow, arrow crab
and clinging crab, ADA divers hanging on
like flags on a pole.
Dive
2: Rock Key Reef. Depth 30
feet, viz 30 feet, water temp 87 degrees.
Nice finger reef with numerous huge
parrotfish, trunkfish, schooling
yellowtails, several very large conch,
appropriate for the Conch Republic!
~ADA Safety
Officer Rachel Davis |
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