2011-12-04 - Closemon Reef, The Exumas, Bahamas
5.8m - 50 min - Dived with Blackbeard's Cruises
shallow reef site, windy conditions nassau grouper, triggerfish, baby spotted drum, blue chromis
2011-12-04 - Hammerhead Gulch, The Exumas, Bahamas
8.8m - 50 min - Dived with Blackbeard's Cruises
windy conditions with waves depressed area (gulch) filled with coral heads big stingray, many lionfish, sea cucumbers camera flooded!!! :(
2011-12-04 - Hammerhead Gulch, The Exumas, Bahamas
9.1m - 57 min - Dived with Blackbeard's Cruises
night dive lobsters, channel crab, shrimp, sea turtle sharksucker attacked the light
2011-12-05 - Basket Star Reef, exumas, Bahamas
9.4m - 54 min - Dived with Blackbeard's Cruises
French grunts, rock beauties, nudibranchs, goldentail moray
2011-12-05 - Lobster No Lobster, exumas, Bahamas
10.1m - 61 min - Dived with Blackbeard's Cruises
cowfish, barracuda, spadefish, big spotted drum windy @ surface, lots of current
2011-12-05 - Lobster No Lobster, exumas, Bahamas
9.4m - 53 min - Dived with Blackbeard's Cruises
night dive barracuda, yellow stingray, shrimp, brittle stars
2011-12-06 - Dog Rocks , The Exumas, Bahamas
27.4m - 40 min - Dived with Blackbeard's Cruises
descent into "the church" coral grotto and then out onto wall, followed @90 ft and slowly ascended and then returned @ 40 ft barracuda, chub, horseeye and amber jacks, queen triggerfish, lots of grouper many lionfish
2011-12-06 - Dog Rocks , The Exumas, Bahamas
26.5m - 44 min - Dived with Blackbeard's Cruises
wall dive different mooring - out to wall, descent to 85 ft, ascent along wall to 60, return @ 40', then around mooring at 35' 3 sharks out in the blue, one closer (reef or blacktip), barracuda, lots of grouper (Nassau, tiger, and black) many lionfish
2011-12-06 - Crab Mountain, exumas, Bahamas
20.7m - 45 min - Dived with Blackbeard's Cruises
dive along edge of a coral pinnacle to the edge of a wall & look into the abyss no crabs, many snapper, one reef shark, yellow stingray, baby filefish, baby basketstar
2011-12-06 - Barracuda Shoals, The Exumas, Bahamas
8.5m - 57 min - Dived with Blackbeard's Cruises
dove without Cathy - dove with Denise Ryan & David Lair glasseye snapper, yellow stingray, ocean triggers, lobster evening dive - fairly dark by end of the dive
2011-12-06 - Barracuda Shoals, The Exumas, Bahamas
9.1m - 54 min - Dived with Blackbeard's Cruises
night dive squid, spiny lobster
2011-12-07 - Pillar Wall, exumas, Bahamas
23.8m - 43 min - Dived with Blackbeard's Cruises
dive over to wall and along edge, then up a coral pinnacle and back reef shark, many barracuda, large channel crab, caribbean lobster
2011-12-07 - The Austin Smith Wreck, The Exumas, Bahamas
18m - 56 min - Dived with Blackbeard's Cruises
8 to 10 reef sharks, ocean trigger, queen trigger, yellowtail jacks, horse eye jack, black grouper lined up on a wreck "Austin Smith" also "Cape Current" explored exterior afterward: Nassau grouper, lots of blennies & gobies, barracuda pretty high residual N2 @ end of dive
2011-12-07 - The Washing Machine, The Exumas, Bahamas
16.5m - 29 min - Dived with Blackbeard's Cruises
Drift dive through the "washing machine" eddy point along edge of island across the current and over Basket Star Reef turtle, southern stingray
2011-12-07 - Basket Star Reef, exumas, Bahamas
11m - 56 min - Dived with Blackbeard's Cruises
night dive at same site as several days prior spiny lobster, moray eel, lots of shrimp & crabs, squirrelfish, cardinalfish, brittle stars, ornate chiton
2011-12-08 - Lost Blue Hole, Nassau, Bahamas, Bahamas
24.1m - 46 min - Dived with Blackbeard's Cruises
225 foot deep hole in the ocean floor descended 80 feet in, looked in caverns (blackbar soldierfish) young adult african pompano, red encrusting sponges everywhere around the sandy rim, nurse shark, lots of snapper, sea cucumbers
2011-12-08 - Periwinkle Reef, Nassau, New Providence, Bahamas
7m - 51 min - Dived with Blackbeard's Cruises
colorful reef - 2 lobster sp. , large channel crab, starfish, sea cucumbers, tobacco fish, 8' nurse shark

Joshua Erdman
































































