Wreck Diving

I love using a sick day to go diving, don't you? :)

Yesterday, we went scuba diving to the Zenobia, last year named the 2nd place wreck dive site in the world. On her maiden voyage to Cyprus on June 7, 1980 she sunk about a mile of the coast of Larnaca harbor. The Zenobia is now lying on her side at about 42 meters below the surface. Here's a pic of the Zen as she was sinking.

We made two dives, each about 40 minutes, to check out different areas of the ship. Here's Scuba Cisco just as we're getting ready to go down for our first dive.

There was a lot of sea life surrounding the boat. Unfortunately, my underwater photography skills are still lacking a bit...or a lot. I wasn't able to photograph the baracudas or the huge groupers we saw, but I did manage to get the 50 silver sea bream that were surrounding us. Way to go me :) This one pretty much jumped in front of my camera while I was trying to take a photo of Cisco.

One of the coolest parts of this dive was getting to swim through the wheel house and canteen areas of the ship. We went in through old busted out windows on one side, and up and out through another. Here's Cisco heading into the canteen.

These next two pics are of some feather duster worms attached to the Zen. They were really beautiful.

I especially like this one with the bright orange fish. And the feather worm looks beautiful with its tentacles pulled most of the way into its protective tube.

All in all it was a great day. Gotta love swimming with the fish!