Wreck
diving is my favourite Tropical Adventure
 Welcome to My Wreck diving Adventure
in Anguilla
Let me introduce my good friend Michel, a
professional diver. He’s living in this paradise since
09 years and had a diving shop at Shoal Bay.
Michel is French however he left France (Born
in Angers) since a long time after trip in South Africa, Margarita...
He know so well the Caribbean sea, he’s really the good
contact to get tips and story about history of this part of
the world. Next time, he will tell you some story about Pirates.
 Water temperature never below 78, visibility
never under 50 feet. This is my kind of diving!
I remember when diving in Europe: muddy waters,
cold waters but great pleasure meeting with friends.
Then I bought my special pair of fins: those which do not
operate below 75 degrees water! I should have bought these
long time ago.
I am a fan of Thierry website and I want to
thank him to let me share with you all my diving adventures
in the Caribbean. I am a scuba instructor and have logged
over 4000 dives in the Caribbean Wreck diving
is one of my favorite specialties.
A ship travels the world carrying people,
news, goods. In one word: history. All sunken wrecks, or shipwrecks
tell fascinating stories, we only need to find all the information
as to unveil them.. However wreck diving is for another time
as our first topic is
FISH
 How do you identify fish?
The fast swimmers and the slow swimmers.
The fast swimmers will have very big powerful tails and fins,
you find them in mid water, close to the reef, deep water.
In one word: everywhere !
The slow swimmers will always be close to the reef where they
can hide in case of emergency ! And you can imagine what kind
of emergency I want to refer to !
Angelfish: always close to
the reef as they have very little fins. When juvenile they
will swim alone, coming to adult size they will mate and stay
with their partner their entire life ( no wonder one of them
is called French Angelfish ! so romantic) So if you see one
Queen Angelfish, you should see another one not too far.
 Parrot fish: parrot fish
because of the mouth shaped as a beak. They can crunch over
3 tons of coral reefs pre year!
Amazing isn’t it? At
night, to sleep inside the reef, they built a cocoon around
themselves to avoid been disturbed by others. If you dive
or snorkel at night and see a Parrot fish with it’s
cocoon already made DO NOT disturb him as they can only make
one per night and without this cocoon it is a deadParrot
fish by morning light.
 One fast swimmer you will always see while
diving or snorkeling is the Barracuda. Its
very elongated body and powerful tail already tell you that
this guy is like a torpedo underwater. You can see his silvery
body with darker spots. In normal situation these spots are
grey silver and when the Barracuda is stressed these spots
become black. Bear this in mind when you see them: dark spots
cover all you shinning objects and move away form his territory.
If you want to see how fat they swim do the following (it
will not hurt them) Bright sunny day, bring a quarter with
you, drop the quarter above the barracuda. As the quarter
slowly descend to the bottom of the sea catching the sun rays
the Barracuda will catch the quarter and spit it out its mouth.
The speed they swim will impress you.
Anguilla Snorkeling
is truly a magical experience and you can now rent Anguilla snorkeling
equipment directly from us.
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