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Jenny has never dived Shiprock so with conditions looking good and high
tide at 8 am it seemed a good choice. And being a workday it was
unlikely to be crowded. In fact it turned out that we had the site
to ourselves. We got there with plenty of time and entered the water
just before high tide. The first thing that amazed me was the viz.
The water was very clear and viz a good 15 metres. And of course
it was a nice warm 22 degrees.
We dived along the wall, seeing a numbray several times, schools of
yellowtail, some lovely pineapple fish and the usual range of
leatherjackets. An octopus took our fancy on the way back.
This was one of the cruisiest dives I've done - certainly the best dive
I've done at Shiprock. After 58 minutes we surfaced past the exit
point. In fact we surfaced beside a pier of one of the houses and
surface swam easily back the 30 metres to the exit.
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28/01/13
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