Fish Rock 2nd February 2008

Dive No. 293. 11.01 am, 21 degrees, 36 mins, 23.8 max, 13.7 av
Much better dive this time, though the conditions weren’t much better. We headed east parallel to the rock and then down to the deep cave entrance. I could make out the shapes of fish in the gloom and then a big school of surgeonfish loomed up; big grey nurse sharks were suddenly everywhere and got very close in the low vis - we were almost bumping into each other! Their big, ominous shapes loomed up in the gloom and suddenly they’d be really close, one of the other divers accidentally whacked one with her fin. At the cave entrance there was incredible churn and the thick shoal of bullseyes swirled around as if being forced from the protection of the cave. The temperature, though the computer recorded it as 21 degrees, fluctuated wildly, as cold as 16 in some of the thermoclines. The churn and low vis made it all a bit hairy but quite exciting.