Tuesday, July 5
Manuelita Outside (aborted Alcyone due to current) – great
dive, a huge school of Big Eyed Trevally (jacks), marbled ray.
Thermocline, a chilly 72 degrees!
Peter and Tom Campbell prepare to splash first with their re-breathers. Typically we'd let the re-breather divers go down about 15 minutes ahead of us. They could go deeper and stay longer without decompression. By doing this our dives typically ended together.
We had a wonderful encounter with a huge school of Big Eye Trevally jacks.
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2nd dive also Manuelita Outside – pretty much a
bust, marbled ray, distant tiger shark and hammerheads, 74 degrees
Barbs with a leopard flounder on top of the rock in front of her.
Can you spot the Leopard Flounder?
Marbled Ray
In the afternoon we went ashore on Cocos Island to visit its Ranger Station.
Most of the gang at the reserve's sign.
Tom Campbell with a shed full of confiscated long lines. Thanks in part to a boat that Tom, the owner of Undersea Hunter Group, and a Saudi Sheik that Tom worked for a number of years.
The ranger station is covered in beautiful murals. Several divers on our trip saw a whale shark, this is the only whale shark I saw, unfortunately.
The Ranger Station grounds include this really cool suspension bridge built with confiscated long lines monofilament lines and buoys.
Crossing the suspension bridge.
The Ranger station is powered 24/7 by a really cool hydroelectic installation. The turbines are driven by water brought by a pipe from the ridge tops above the camp. Continual power is important for the radar installation that keeps watch for pirate fishing vessels.
Tom Campbell on the Cocos Island Patrol Boat that he specified and the sheik purchased for Costa Rica.
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