In the morning we had a second dive at ‘Endiri Tila’ but the really interesting dive we had in the afternoon at ‘Wreck MV Kudhi Maa’, a cargo ship which has been sunken here on purpose in 1999. The sight was fine, our maximum dive-depth was about 23 meters and the temperature was 28°C.

It was the first time that we had the opportunity to dive a wreck and it was a thrilling experience! I’ll never forget the magic moment when the wreck shows up through the dark blue water ….. very cool! But enough chatting just let the pictures talk for themself:

So this was our last dive at Angaga for this year, a perfect final dive! Tomorrow we will just do some snorkeling at the house-reef and the next morning we’ll head back to Vienna :(
Anyways, we had so many nice dives at unbelievable dive-spots and we can take so much unforgettable impressions with us, that there is no time for sadness ;)

So see you tomorrow for a last live-posting straight from Angaga-Island …
Stay well!

Yours, Andrews >:o)

Today in the morning we had our second dive at ‘Madivaru Manta Point’ and this time we had more luck than the last time. The manta rays came really near! One of them became exceptionally interested in me and my camera and touched the camera housing :o

All the pictures are done by the Panasonic 8mm fish-eye, so you can imagine how near the manta ray was … unbelievable, really!

By the way … sight was about 10 to 15 meter, temperature of about 28°C, maximum dive-depth was 22 meters and it took us about 50 minutes to get there by boat.

Some additional notes to todays cover-shot: At the bottom of the manta you see five suckerfishes. They dock on the mantas belly by a kind of ‘suction device’ located at the top of their head using the poor fish to get a free ride! But the manta learned that the suckerfish doesn’t like the air-bubbles produced by the divers breathing-device. So he navigates straight through the bubble-shower to drop off the suckerfishes.
Smart mantas! ;)

In the afternoon we had a second dive at Angags house-reef. Nothing special but a nice, relaxing dive. I’ve to say that we really enjoy this house-reef dives because there is so much life to discover! Today we saw a shark, a sea-turtle, two lionfishes, trumpet-fishes and a lot of different fish-swarms of all kind. Very, very enjoyable !!!

I have no flash with me, because my whole underwater-equipment is focused on big fish, like wale-sharks, mantas and sharks in general. This is why some of the pictures are not as crispy as I would like to have them ;) But net year I’ll take two flash-lights with me to be prepared for the smaller animals on the reef also!

Hope you had fun today with us!
Yours, Andrews >:o)

Thanks to all of our readers who crossed their fingers for us! It happened again … we met 4 (yes! FOUR!) wale-sharks today. The first three haven’t been near enough to get a good picture, but the last one was moving at 5 meters so I could snap this picture.

It’s an unbelievable experience to meet this gentle giants … ineffable … you’ve to see this by yourself! I hope the snorkeler in the background gives you a feeling for the physical relation … the whale-shark was about 14 meters long ….

Not more to say today …
Yours Andrews >:o)

We had our check-dive in the morning and a second dive on Angaga’s house-reef in the afternoon.

We got four ‘whitetip reef sharks’ today. Sorry for the picture quality but this little devils are so fast … really hard to catch! This one was the most curious one and came closer … about 2 meters from the camera. And also if this shark is just one and a half meter in size it looks much bigger from near distance ;)

Anyways – ‘shark is shark’ ! :)

Sleep well and join us tomorrow,
Yours Andrews >:o)