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I did a few dives about a month ago while I was in Freeport. We dove with a guy named Ray who used to work for Xanadu, but now operates their boats independently. We hit Theo in the morning, which was awesome. 105+ feet of vis, a huge turtle, lionfish, and tons of nice grouper and snapper. Then we dove a 50’ reef which wasn’t too impressive. In the afternoon we went to the world famous Shark Alley. Since it was only Ray, my girlfriend, and I diving we didn’t spend the extra money on bait and a videographer, we just did an hour dive. As soon as the boat pulled up you could see the dark shadows circling under the boat. Apparently the sharks thought it was lunch time. We got in the water and had a dozen Carribean reef sharks anxiously awaiting. Since we didn’t do a feeding, they just followed us around the whole dive and everywhere we looked there were multiple sharks. I think I liked it better than a feeding since we got to swim around and see the reef at Shark Alley which was quite impressive. There are loads of coral heads arranged almost like city blocks with sand channels intersecting like city streets. We swam around the sand channels with the sharks passing over us and the reef for the full hour. It made for some great photos. At times I would get distracted by a macro shot of a nudibranch and forget where we were until I would glance up and see 3 reef sharks checking me out! It was a blast!
I have heard great things about UNEXSO too though, my friend got back a few days ago and had some great dives with them and a great feeding. If you decide to check out Ray, send me a message, I can dig up his info for you. Have fun either way!
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