After the orientation dives and the evening meal the ship sails overnight to Osprey Reef 110km out from the Great Barrier Reef. This is a submerged atoll in the Coral Sea (25km by 12km). It rises from the sea bed over 2000m vertical. Prior to sailing the captain advises everyone to take sea sickness precautions as it will be 'bumpy'. Boy was it. Left, right, up, down. Don't know how the boat doesn't capsize. Don't know how we stayed in bed. It is making me seasick just typing this !
Anyhow we got there.
At Osprey there was a Google boat out nearby running a mapping submersible so you should see it on Google Maps at some time in the future. One reason to dive here is the amount of reef sharks (and sometime deep water sharks) as you can see from some of the photos.
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| First dive of the day out by tender to come back with the current |
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| Shark swimming above our heads along the reef top |
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| We are just meters from this shark frenzie |
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| Linda emerging from cave |
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| Linda |
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| Steve (now more fish then man) - pink weight belf though ?? |
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| Steve (Centre), Linda (Left) |
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| This is an underwater 'smokers bubble' - first time we had seen this was possible to do - cool ! |
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| Manta Ray |
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| We spotted this Manta in the distance and amazingly managed to catch it |
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| Linda and Victoria on 5m safety stop |
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