aprxh
Contributor
Myself and 9 other members of my dive club (South Florida Dives) and 2 other guests went diving with JASA on the M/V Shear Water dive boat. We left the dock just before 9 AM and returned just before 5PM. The trip included lunch and a screening of Jims new shark movie ,and 3 dives with long surface intervals between dives. You drop you gear off at the entrance to the pier and the crew takes you gear and puts it on the boat. At the end of the day they cart you gear back to the entrance of the pier and you load your car. They only take out up to 12 divers. You can only bring 2 tanks. After the 1st dive they refill your 1st tank. They break the divers into 2 groups of 6 and have a guide for each group. The 2nd group goes in about 25 minutes after the 1st group. The boat has a swim up platform to get out of the water. You do not have to take your fins off. I liked the swim platform but some others of the group would have preferred a ladder.
The first dive was on the Mizpah where we saw a lot of Goliath Groupers.
The second dive was on the Zion where we saw even more Goliath Groupers. They were all over the place; a lot of them in them were in the wrecks.
For the third dive we headed back to the Mizpah and dove the whole corridor. We saw the Goliath Groupers from the morning and then went to the wrecks of the PC1174, the Amaryllis and the China Barge and then to the Brazilian Docks and rock rubble.
This was a great way to spend a day and look forward to doing it again next year. If you get the chance you should sign up for this trip, the videos on YouTube of the Goliath Groupers do not prepare you for swimming with them. It was so much better see how big they are and the bait balls that are swimming around them.
The first dive was on the Mizpah where we saw a lot of Goliath Groupers.
The second dive was on the Zion where we saw even more Goliath Groupers. They were all over the place; a lot of them in them were in the wrecks.
For the third dive we headed back to the Mizpah and dove the whole corridor. We saw the Goliath Groupers from the morning and then went to the wrecks of the PC1174, the Amaryllis and the China Barge and then to the Brazilian Docks and rock rubble.
This was a great way to spend a day and look forward to doing it again next year. If you get the chance you should sign up for this trip, the videos on YouTube of the Goliath Groupers do not prepare you for swimming with them. It was so much better see how big they are and the bait balls that are swimming around them.
