Congratulations to all our April & May students

Its the end of the month and time to catch up on saying  a big ''THANK YOU'' to all out PADI students who have done so well during April and May, 2011

SCUBA DIVER; Marie-Josee Roy, Philippe Bouchard, Iris Lienhard,

JR. OPENWATER DIVER; Sofia Smeigh,

OPENWATER DIVER; VeroniqueTheriault, Rachel Reilly, Zoe Collins,Noor Jan-Mohamed, Meaghan McDonald, Emma Wilson, Rick Carbone, Colin Wheeler, Lucie Harter-Turcotte, Jan Hammer, Michela Gualtieri, Lyndsay Rae,  Daniela Kramer, Yuliana Angelova, Terry Laporte, Nikolas Socratous,  David Burchelle, Furat Al-Murani, Muthuraja Shunmugavel, Iva Angelova,

ADVANCED OPENWATER DIVER; David Smeigh, Grant Parry, Heather Wigley, Montell Kurz, Vasiliki Malakasi, Lucie Harter-Turcotte, Adrian Muszynski

EMERGENCY FIRST RESPONDER (CPR): Andrew Laboudallon, David Marcus, Lucie harter- Turcotte,

RESCUE DIVER; David Marcus,

ENRICHED AIR ( NITROX): Brian Kneafsey,  Mark Boll,

Sharkbanks- beautiful!

Don't you just love the Seychelles.

Recently I spent two weeks diving around Mahe the main island of Seychelles, and was fortunate to find the BEST diveshop on island.

With friendly staff, big boats and calm seas, it was time to spend some bubble time.

First dive of the day, Sharkbanks, with a name like that you expect something special, and it didn't disappoint.  A 30 mt dive, and warm waters, we were met at the bottom by a couple of very large marble rays, neither seemed too concerned with us, and just cruised on by, and of course a very large Nurse Shark, just doing her thing.

The yellow striped snapper hung off the top of the rocks schooling, and just above was a big school of Barracuda.  The odd thing with Barracuda, is you never really see them move, but they are always there just out of site, I especially liked the one who had a huge hook still lodged in his mouth.

We spent a lot of time poking around looking under the rocks, so much to see, I found a beautiful turtle having a wee sleep, and the biggest lobster.

 

The corals here are really special, and very colourful, with lots of reef fish shilling out, though everything seems a little bigger at this depth.

At the end of the dive, during our safety stop, a huge school of Jacks came through, there were so many they seemed to go on for ever.  Thank you Tony, a wonderful dive!