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lerpy - 1/13/2014 8:43 AM 
I found diving in this type of setting a very cool experience. I was drifting along a reef in Bahamas where is drops off to some 2000’. It was neat to move off the reef and out into the blue water. At one point as I was drifting I saw some shadows out in the blue, eventualy I realized it was a few reef sharks coming to check me out. I also thought a lot about bouyancy control and what I would do if my wing pooched right at the wrong moment.
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havoc - 1/13/2014 9:14 AM
That would be amazing and I can’t wait to experience that. I’ve been in water where you couldn’t see the bottom but mud was more the factor rather than depth.
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On my recent trip to Fiji, on my last dive day, I had the resort dive boat all to myself. My wife wanted to hit the spa instead of one last day of diving. Her loss. The guide asked me where I wanted to go today. I said "I want to see Hammerheads." Off we went to a reef we had dove previously, with a giant wall. Visibility here was easily 100’+. We headed out away from the wall into the blank empty blue ocean, all the while descending. After several minutes I could not see the wall behind us or anything in front of us. Above us was just blank light blue and I could sort of tell where the sun would be. Below us was just dark dark dark blue. It was eerie. I couldn’t even tell that I was still descending. My depth gauge hit 119’ and I did my best to level off. But it was much more difficult than usual to hold my depth. Every time I would peer around me my breathing would quicken as I "thought" I saw something. And then I would look at my gauge again and I had dropped another 10 feet. Then my guide pulled a smashed up 7-up bottle out of his wetsuit that I didn’t know he had with him. He pointed at the bottle, then to his eyes, and then straight down, and then back to his eyes. I got the idea. He crinkled the bottle for about 10 seconds and then stopped. Below us, maybe 100 feet? Hard to tell. I saw about fifty dark shapes materialize below us like out of the fog. As they got closer, maybe 60 feet, I could see that the dark shapes were actually Hammerheads. At this point we must have been too close because they descended as quickly as they appeared. I spied them for only maybe 20 seconds. My guide repeated the bottle noise and the hammerheads came back for another peek. A third time worked again. But not the fourth or fifth. So we turned around and headed back the way we came. As we approached the edge of the reef we actually merged with a school of giant barracuda! Another first for me. In all a very memorable and eerie dive.
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Greg - 1/13/2014 11:41 AM
From Rich-D-Fish: Then my guide pulled a smashed up 7-up bottle out of his wetsuit that I didn’t know he had with him. He pointed at the bottle, then to his eyes, and then straight down, and then back to his eyes. I got the idea. He crinkled the bottle for about 10 seconds and then stopped. Wow...sounds like an amazing dive! I didn’t know hammerheads were attracted to crinkling metal cans, that’s cool. It is pretty freaky to be over top of really deep dark water, especially when large predators are beneath you.
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From Greg: attracted to crinkling metal cans It was actually a plastic 7up bottle. I plan to try it in my local waters to see what else it might attract :-)
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Greg - 1/13/2014 12:05 PM
From Rich-D-Fish: It was actually a plastic 7up bottle. Does it have to be a 7up bottle or can I use a plastic Dr. Pepper bottle? :)
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is that Diet or non Diet?? lol
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Ha ha ha. Dr. Pepper bottles actually call Great White Sharks. So go ahead and try it! LOL
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Thanks Rich. So Greg, when you use your bottle of Dr. Pepper to attract the Great White make sure its a Diet soda as then youll know the shark is a female
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havoc - 1/14/2014 6:41 AM
What would a Fanta or Monster drink bring out?
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daz88 - 1/14/2014 6:41 AM
" water so deep the bottom was far beyond what I could see".....hell , I dive in California. Pretty much every dive is like this....and you only have to be in 30 feet of water. ;) "beyond what I could see"... some days you can’t see you hand if you put your arm straight out.
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I was diving Theo’s Wreck off Grand Bahama Island at about 105 ft. I swam around the screw and rudder of the ship and came out on the other side (keel or bottom of the ship) only to find my self looking down into the Bahama’s Trench which is about 2,000 ft. straight down. The wall was sheer and you could see the sand drifting over the edge. Very dark and very eerie feeling looking down into that abyss.
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From hoofpick: I was diving Theo’s Wreck off Grand Bahama Island at about 105 ft. I swam around the screw and rudder of the ship and came out on the other side (keel or bottom of the ship) only to find my self looking down into the Bahama’s Trench which is about 2,000 ft. straight down. The wall was sheer and you could see the sand drifting over the edge. Very dark and very eerie feeling looking down into that abyss. Wow Lonnie,, as scary and eerie that sounds but it must have been a sight to see,, and ill bet that wasnt a good place to drop anything! ha ha
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