Free diving on RHS Rhone
Blue Tang's at the Baths
While we’re on land in Vancouver making some cash I thought I’d recap on some things we love about sailing. Number 1, top of the list for both of us, is free diving. Not that we’re competitive or anything, but since we left D.R. in January we’ve been trying to test ourselves with depth challenges. It actually started with Alicia and Brian in St Thomas. We were out on a tour with Brian’s pirate ship and they took us to a wreck that lay in 50 feet of water. J, one of Brian’s colleagues, dove on the wreck and then Keli followed him. Not to be outdone I of course gave it a shot too – and we passed! We were both amazed that we could do it and suddenly curious about how much further we could dive…the challenge began.
The next challenge was in Little Harbour, where our depth sounder showed our anchor lying in 50 ft. We both dove on it a few times over a couple of days. As we travelled south we dove on the RMS_Rhone at Salt Island, and at Jacques Cousteau’s Underwater Reserve in Guadeloupe.
Here are a couple of videos of us diving on RHS Rhone. There would have been more, but sadly we forgot that our waterproof camera was only waterproof to 30 ft. Water got to the battery while Keli was filming the second video at about 70 ft and it ground to a hault. Thankfully the video up to that point was fine!