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Wall Dive in the West
RussellsThere was a vertical wall right next to Aeaun Island with no detectable bottom. We stepped off the dive platform and dropped down the wall to 30 metres. There was little current and 20 metre visibility as we drifted along the sheer face. It was a busy, awesome dive with beautiful soft corals on the wall, two sharks, a manta ray, a dogtooth tuna, and maori wrasse out in the blue, exploring the deep indentations in the wall, and occasionally looking at some unusual marine creature. We did several spectacular wall dives in the Russell Islands including Karumolun Island, Mane Island, and Leru Island. These islands appear to be formed from ancient coral, have steep sides, no beaches and are covered in jungle. On each dive, we had a bottom time of about 50 minutes using 80 cu ft tanks by slowly ascending from 30 metres to the surface while drifting along the wall. The Princess II drifted along with us, so all we had to do at the end of the dive was swim a few metres away from the wall and climb up the big ladder on to the dive platform. Effortless diving! |
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