18th April 2024-Blue Water, Leopards and Eagle Rays

We were welcomed to beautiful, blue and warm water today at South Solitary Island.
Dive one was at the northern end around Cleaner Station and Shark Gutters. This dive had huge schools of fish out in the deeper water, a Mantis Shrimp, Octopus and a huge Queensland Grouper out near the Santuary marker.

Dive two was a one way swim from Shark Gutter down to The Gantry, although there was no current at all it was a very relaxing swim along Boulder wall.
We spotted 5-6 Eagle Rays, 4 Leopard Sharks, Turtles near the gap, Nudibranchs, and schools of travelly around North boulder.

We also had a bit of an adventure on our hands today with the reports that a Grey Nurse Shark was spotted with a 8-10m rope stuck in its mouth. This had a crew from Gold Coast Sea World heading down to get the rope out, our job was to attach a rope to the rope attached to the shark with a flaot so the Sea Wold crew can bring it up and remove the rope. Unfortunatley we could not find this Grey Nurse Shark all morning so fingers crossed it has got the rope out and is recovering.

Vis – 25-30m
Temp – 24C