Smmcdonald
Saint Lucia
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Nº129
Date: 2019-06-30 - 09:29
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Max Depth: 25.1m Duration: 48mins
Dive Location
- Temp: Surf 30°C Bottom 27°C
- Dive type : Check Dive
- Visibility: Good Water: Salt
Specific gear used
- Weights: 4.5 kg
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Dive with Dave from Anse Chastanet Scuba St Lucia
Dive buddies:
Jennifer McDonald,
Vince Knick
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- 1. Nitrox 32
- 12L Aluminium 195 → 52 bar
- Average depth: 12.1m
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On Saturday, June 29th, our group arrived at Hewanorra International Airport and was shuttled to Anse Chastanet along a slow, windy road through small towns and villages along the southern and western coasts of St. Lucia. An hour-and-a-half later, we arrived , and after settling into our rooms, gathered for a meet-and-greet dinner, and given a brief overview of the resort and upcoming week.
We were asked to leave our dive luggage by our door where it would be carried to the dive shop and stored for the remainder of the week. Early the next morning, we trekked down the cliff-side to SCUBA St. Lucia on the beach, where Jay, Georgiana, and our dive guides and staff were waiting to greet us. This was our first trip that Jen and I planned and lead from 'day 1', and we had a group of 20 others coming along.
Our first dive with SCUBA St. Lucia was a check-out dive that began in the shallow bay area just a few yards off the beach. We began by splitting into two groups: Jen, Vince, Steve Mattingly, Jesica, Jan, Tracy, Alison, and I in the "pink" group; Myra, Mark, Luke, David Jabs, Gary, Garland and Lilith in the "green" group. The pink group was led by Dave.
After our dive briefing, our group descended to about 10 feet where we went through a few basic exercises and demonstrated mask removals and lost regulator drills with our guide before slowly swimming down a sandy slope to and over a few aggregates of coral, crossing over the reef and descending further to around 80 feet. Immediately noticeable was a lack of large fish, but this was made up for with an abundance of macro life and very healthy coral growth. We would end up diving this reef several times, including the two night dives and all afternoon shore dives. It never got boring!
The highlight of our dive was a relatively large Caribbean Reef Squid. These squid look and are often mistaken for cuttlefish, which are absent from the Caribbean.
We were all pleasantly surprised both by the health of the reef, but also by the quality of the check dive. These dives are typically short and in murky waters near the harbour or other busy areas where you don't see a lot of marine life. Our dive was just shy of an hour long and among a beautiful, healthy reef. This was a good indicator that I had underestimated how beautiful Anse Chastanet was under the water!
Unfortunately, I did not have my camera with me as I had left my compact flash card in the room and didn't have time to retrieve it. Or maybe I didn't want to: the climb back from the beach was exhausting!