diving7seas 2020
Come on – let ‘ s dive ! The sharks are already waiting in the channel
gives the sign for departure - and off we go . Now we know why the dive is called Embudu Express . With the speed of the current we fly along the edge of the reef into the interior of the northern South Male ‘ Atoll .
If you have had enough ( or your finimetre shows is approaching the red section ), you set the buoy to three meters and will be picked up by the dhoni after the safety stop .
„ We already had divers , who almost came up at the house reef of Embudu “, Jan says later with a grin . It ‘ s not really an art . Indeed the island is in the way of the incoming current that gets slower and slower at the end of the channel . The proximity to the channel is also the reason why even at the house reef sharks , manta rays and dolphins can be observed on their way through .
„ But no one can imagine that the big animals are constantly loitering on the house reef and just waiting for our divers ,“ Wolfgang interjects . „ Of course luck is part of it , but it ‘ s not impossible either . However , Diverland doesn ‘ t put it any other way “.
Always at the house reef are the usual suspects who live in such biotopes : From octopus to moray eels , napoleon fishs of different sizes , mackerels that appear in small hunting groups as well as occasionally in large swarms . Below at the foot of the coral garden near the mini wreck with its exposed motors lives a large swarm of snappers .
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