Flynn Reef The Whale
This was my open water training dive number three. Some new skills that we did were surface swim with compass and underwater compass navigation. Underwater compass navigation is really important (especially on night dives) but the good news is, if you get lost you can always surface and find the boat (but you look like a pro if you don’t have to) All of the training dives were nice because we were with a group and an instructor. We would go under, do our skills and then the instructor would take us around and show us the cool spots at the dive site.
On this dive I saw a Lion Fish, white tip reef shark and a really cool nudiebranch – this particular one was called a Elizabeth’s Chromodoris. Sorry no pictures in this one, but check my future posts for more pictures and videos
Flynn Reef Tennis Courts
This was my last dive to do to get certified! This was awesome, I easily did all of the skills and so did all of the people in my group. On this dive I had a bottom time of 30 minutes I got to see a MASSIVE giant clam, another reef shark and a big napoleon wrasse (he was really friendly) If you get a chance to dive the Tennis Courts at Flynn Reef then keep an eye out for the Napoleon Wrasse, they tend to stick around the same spots. Also no pictures for this one, I left the camera on the boat because it cost a bit to rent and I wanted to focus on my dive skills. I ended up buying a case for my camera though and managed to get a lot of good pictures and videos (still to come)
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