JANUARY 22, 2011

DIVE REPORT: WEST PALM BEACH (double click white box in upper right corner for better pics and better read; all rights reserved):

The good news: visibility was not bad at 40 to 60 feet; the seas were flat; and, we saw a lot of turtles and goliaths. 

The bad news: it was freezing!  The bottom temperature was 68 degrees; we heard reports of 63 degrees on dive sites just to the south of where we were diving; the air temperature was only 65 degrees and a cold wind was blowing out of the west.  If that were not bad enough, we had no sunshine! 

We decided to stay close to the inlet and dove some wrecks.  First dive was the Princess Anne and second dive was The Corridor.

Pretty good diving.  The wrecks were filled with goliaths and turtles.  On The Corridor, we saw Green, Loggerheads, and Hawksbill Turtles.  Both wrecks had numerous goliath, including some very large ones.

Of course, all of the usual suspects were out: Green Morays, Stingrays, Lionfish, and large schools of fish.  One diver claimed that three sailfish circled him on his safety stop.

Perhaps one more month of cold winter diving.