Current water temps and any Eagle Ray sightings lately???

[divingpyrate]

works for me, we normally dive just skins , with November and end of April being the earliest and latest
We have 3mm suites but hopefully wont need them

Sitting at DFW waiting on the boarding call

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[dmoore19]

There was 1 guy that was wearing a skin and another guy on one day that went without any protection, they both said they had gotten cold on the second dive. There was a gal that was wearing a shortie and she said she got cold on a dive. There was a guy that wore a 7 mm and one of the gals that wore a 5 mm they didn't say anything about being cold. I had on 3 mm and didn't get cold. I downloaded all my dives and found that 77-78 was the average. There was one @79. The eagle rays are here.

Have a safe flight coming down and have a great week. We go home today.

works for me, we normally dive just skins , with November and end of April being the earliest and latest
We have 3mm suites but hopefully wont need them

Sitting at DFW waiting on the boarding call

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[JFS]

A group of 8 eagle rays today, hung around for about 10 minutes. Water temp was 77 degrees....

 

[divingpyrate]

we had not planned to dive today, looks like our first chance will be monday

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[dflaher]

A group of 8 eagle rays today, hung around for about 10 minutes. Water temp was 77 degrees....

JFS-Where did you see the group of 8 rays? Very cool.

 

[divingpyrate]

port still looks closed, but I did see one boat, not a dive boat
by the beach is still chilly but by the pool is kicking
winds are still out of the north but dropping according to the palm trees I can see

 

[ColoDale]

Towards the end of Feb we went to Eagle Ray Station and dive the same dive twice. On one of the dives we saw about 24 in separate groups however I think several of the smaller groups combined and circled back around. The other dive we saw about 21 in separate groups. I have still pics but a friend of mine on the dive has a great video. I will have to get that video, permission and see if I can post it. I had some great pics up close of an Eagle Ray feeding in the sand at a southern site but unfortunately the SD card was reformatted (long story) so I had to start over but with success. A few days later another group of divers we were with went north to the same site and only saw a couple of Eagle Rays.

We saw quite a few Eagle Rays as singles at many other sites further south.

I am going thru my pics now an will put them in a trip report.

My computer at the time read 81 F but it wasn't that warm. I think this was the max temp on the screen and was a surface (boat) temp. I think it was around 77-78 F but warmer at depth (or at least felt that way).

 

[JFS]

JFS-Where did you see the group of 8 rays? Very cool.

Saw the small group of 8 at Cantarell this past saturday. About a month ago saw much bigger groups...

 

[divingpyrate]

temps are fine below the surface, just have bundle up clothes on the boat

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[scubafree]

24 eagle rays this morning. Maybe more but counted 24 in sight. It helps to be first on the reef. Stay on the bottom and the rays will come to you. Excellent day!!