DAVE & JAN'S DIVING DIARY

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Nudibranches

Australia

Sipadan Island

Bali

Yap

Lembeh KBR 2006

Cozumel

Gibraltar 21st October 1998.
Our first dive abroad and we were so excited about diving in Gibraltar.

Gibraltar is British territory and lies at the southern most tip of Spain, you can see Morocco, North Africa from up on the rock. 

Inside the rock itself is a huge amphitheater, at certain times they have music concerts in there. 

In the town everything is as you would expect in a typical English street, your local pub, Marks and Sparks, but everything is duty free. 

If you are driving to ‘Gib’ from Spain remember to take your passport and don’t even think of queue jumping to get through passport control faster. 

Our first dive here is on the 428 Cable Laying Barge, i had a few problems going down but once in i settled down ok. 

The water temp was better than what we were used to in the Uk, it was 14C, and the vis was quite good. 

We had 45 minutes on this dive and we both enjoyed it.

Our 2nd dive was on the Camp Bay Barges.

A few days earlier we had been at the dive show in the U.K. where dive operators from Gibraltar had a stand, we had spoken to them about diving in "Gib" and thought it was a good idea. 

We were actually on holiday in Spain, staying in Fuengirola, our first time back in Spain since our car accident in November ’97. 

We had been touring the Costa Del Sol and decided to drive to Gibraltar and get a few dives in with Rock Marine who were situated in the harbour. 

The diving costs were very inexpensive and included our entire dive gear and air etc. Our first dive was the 428 cable laying barge, where we saw scorpion fish, crabs and octopus’s, a little further out in the bay were all the big tankers going about their business. 

Our second dive was on the Camp Bay Barges. This was much the same as our first dive but the octopus’s were much bigger for some reason. 

Thanks to Chris for his patience with me.