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Scuba Diving in Bonaire, Caribbean – Thousand Steps, North Bonaire

August 19, 2007











Dive Site: Thousand Steps

Location: North Bonaire

Description: Reef dive from a boat

Depth: 5 – 40 metres (15 – 130 feet)

Visibility: 30 metres (100 feet)

This dive is called 1000 Steps because if divers do it from the shore, they have to go down a lot of steps, which apparently feel like 1000.

This is a gentle slope with lots of gorgonians, brain corals, red crabs and sea plumes. There are lots of cornetfish. There are also giant blue parrotfish, surgeonfish, snappers and turtle in the open water. Also can be seen are rays and whale sharks here.

Scuba diving in Fiji – Supermarket, Just off Mana Island, The Mamanucas

July 23, 2007

Dive Site: Supermarket
Location: Just off Mana Island, The Mamanucas
Description: Wall / Shark Dive
Depth: 30 metres (100 feet)
Visibility: 30 metres (100 feet)

Supermarket is one of Fiji’s most famous dive sites. Not because of the “spectacular soft coral” tagline which Fiji is most often associated with but because of its resident grey reef sharks. These sharks are fed three times weekly and cruise around down at 30m, frequently coming in to an overhang in the wall to have their teeth cleaned on days that they are not being fed. Big schools of barracuda, bannerfish, surgeonfish and herrings also hang out on this circular, 50m diameter platform reef.