Palau divesites day 2: Peleliu Camp + Turtle Cove + German Channel

Today we moved to beautiful Carp Island in the morning and still had time for 3 dives.  This time I had to dive with air, too, or 21% nitrox as I use in my computer settings when diving with air, or mixing air and nitrox dives in one day.  Safer, you can keep tabs on your nitrogen traces.  Should never change settings to air when diving Nitrox most of the time!

The Palau Divers with brit Ian and 2 japanese DMs Suzuki and Saki took very good care of the group.  Really nice people!  After gearing up we started another dream day in the Micronesian waters.

We had bought reef hooks as we heard there was going to be locations with strong currents.  I'm glad!  We were going to need those...



Peleliu Camp

Viz was good, about 30 meters:  Bottom time 36 minutes, max depth 30 meters.  Beautiful wall drift at first with lots of small fry and sharks patrolling the perimeter.  We rounded a corner and hooked ourselves in about 27 meters (current about 3-4 knots), then settled for the show.  Excellent!  Big snappers, grey and blacktip reefsharks, bluefin trevallies, school of great barracudas, school of big circular batfish, huge napoleons.  A nice small flatworm just next to my hook.  Remember to look around if you stop for a while!  :-)

Turtle Cove

Best dive so far!!!!  Only 20 meters and 56 minutes, but the amount of fish and corals was amazing!
Sharks, black&white snappers, yellow-striped snappers, black snappers, schooling scissor-tailed fusilier, lyretail groupers, endemic square spot antheas, drop-off surgeons, millions of pyramid butterflies and big harlequin sweetlips.  Also pearly soldierfish, bronze soldierfish and reef lizardfish.  A beautiful turtle sleeping among corals...  WOWEE!  For a fishthusiast, a dream come true!

German Channel

We tried our luck again, to see if we could find the Manta rays...  20 meters and 59 minutes.
This time many really big dogtooth tunas, plenty of sharks, schooling trevallies - especially big bluefins.  Other big fish included groupers, snappers and lots of big titan triggerfish.  Viz in parts only about 5 meters.  No mantas...