SCUBA Diving the RMS Rhone

We need to make longer days on charter sometimes! When you try and fit everything you do in a week into 3 days, the hours run out pretty quick! Most of my pictures today are diving pictures. The guys did Willy T's last night, and we were up and at the Caves for breakfast and snorkeling followed by a trip up to Salt Island to dive the RMS Rhone. I was not going in the water today, as I had a lot of work to do, but the current was running stronger then I had seen it for many years there and I quickly took the opportunity to split the group and take some of the divers in!

I am not sure whether we "saw" the wreck as opposed to "swept past the Rhone" in the current...

Could not even get on the wreck in spots, so we headed to the deep end down current (knowing that my husband had promised to pick us up in the dinghy)

We swept by the outside, turned around and came up the bow...(yes, the visibility was this clear, with all that current what do you suppose?)

We then thought that maybe we would find less current inside the wreck so in we went...

We spied a large turtle sitting in the back there with the bait fish... Was I ever glad I had brought my camera as I was not going to, as it was such a last minute dive, but Bazza got it together for me in 2 minutes I think!

Sharp crisp picture of a shell! Shame about the head!!!

Tried again, still no head! By this time he was past me!

BUT I turned around and kept shooting and I really like this shot!

Then he stayed inside and let us watch him, in fact we could have picked him up, he was so unscared!

We attempted to swim out of the boat where you normally do and turn around and take pictures again, but nope, the current was too strong!

We had to turn around and go back the way we came in and it was like an amusement ride, you just tried to steer as it whipped us right through and out!

The divers loved it, I loved the turtle, and the dinghy picked us up so it was perfect!

We had lunch underway to the Baths, did a tour of the Baths and were at Marina Cay and anchored by 430 for MIchael Beans HAPPPYYY AAAARRRRR show! I stayed on the boat where I could hear all the songs (and my mens voices) perfectly.
An early drop tomorrow and then an early pick up tomorrow afternoon, and off we go again.