Dive 15 : Yucab Reef, Cozumel, Mexico
Dive No. 15 of 236Date Apr 23, 1999
Bottom Time
To Date7:06
This Dive0:40
Cumulative Time7:46
Location Yucab Reef, Cozumel, Mexico
Time IN 11:31Time OUT 12:15
SI
1:11		 PG
E		 PG
W
51'
DEPTH		 0:03
15ft STOP
0:40
Air Temp 85F
Water Temp 80F
Visibility 100'
Buddy Roberto - Divemaster
Notes
This was a shallower dive with LOTS of cool coral. A very large French Angelfish followed me for much of the dive. The divemaster got everyones attention and had us swim away from the reef. Shortly after that a very large Spotted Eagle Ray became visible in the distance. It had to be about 8 feet across. It swam past us about 25 feet away, then made a u-turn and came around for another pass. It was amazing to see such a large animal swim by without making a sound.

I used the Nikonos this time. I don't have a strobe for it yet so all the pictures turned out quite blue.

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This dive started out pretty uneventful, except for this huge French Angelfish following me around for about 10 minutes.
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Late into the dive our divemaster got our attention and directed us to swim away from the reef. Shortly we saw in the distance a huge Spotted Eagle Ray coming towards us! It had to be about 8 feet across! I took several shots, but since this was my first time with the Nikonos, only this one turned out at all.
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Here the divemaster found something buried in the sand. I think it's called a Sand Dollar.
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I was just goofing around with the camera and got this weird shot of other divers just hanging there in the water as we drift towards another part of the reef.
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My only decent close-up shot with the Nikonos on this dive. I think this is a Margate.
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