North Save-a-Tack… Revisited!
:: Thursday, February 14th, 2008 @ 8:31 pmAfter breakfast it was off to ‘North Save-a-Tack’ once again for another fantastic drift dive! On this dive I decided to follow James, who said he knew of a good place to hangout and wait to get some nice shark photos (if we were so lucky to be graced by their presence.) After dropping in on the wall and drifting to the first turn at the sand flat, we swam slowly up the sandy bottom to the left side of the first bommie. It didn’t take long before we spotted them; Several White Tips and a large Gray Reef Shark! WOW… what a sight!
White Tip and Gray Reef Sharks @ ‘North Save-a-Tack’ passage
Even though the sharks are quite timid here, they’re still curious animals and therefore will make at least one pass at a diver before swimming away into the deep blue. This offers a reasonably good chance of a decent photograph from time to time. On this particular dive, there must have been a dying fish held up some where in the bommie because they never completely left the area.
Even with James and I chasing them around trying to get close enough for a good picture, they still would only swim out of camera range and then loop back around to the pinnacle again. After playing with the ‘big boys’ for about 20 minutes or so, we finished off our dive back on ‘Kansas’ where we ran into more Anemone Fish, Lion Fish and a Clown Triggerfish at the ‘Window of Dreams’!
A Gray Reef Shark @ ‘North Save-a-Tack
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