Our second dive was a wreck dive.
It was sunk 30 years ago after sitting in port for years.
Since it is only 30 years old there is only a little bit of stuff growing on it.
Parts of it were kind of cool though.
Not that many fish around but several small corals and grasses.
The wreck wasn’t too deep and bottomed out at 25 meters.
Even so there wasn’t much colour.
The ship was laying on its port side so this is looking back up towards the surface.
Here’s a good example of all the small corals starting to grow on the side of the ship.
This prop isn’t turning anymore. The urchins around it are happy about that.
The ship was interesting to see.
It looks a bit spooky looking down the stairs into the ship.
There were a couple fish around we haven’t really seen many before.
This guy looks like a triangular box, even though we didn’t get a good angle on it.
There were many lionfish around, including inside the ship hanging out.
Here’s another really long fish that we never manage to get a picture of from another angle.
The pufferfish wasn’t happy with our dive master.
They do look pretty funny puffed up.
The triangular fish is a thornback trunkfish. Not very common but typically seen on sand with rubble or seagrass, as in your case. The very long fish is a cornetfish, a distant relative of trumpetfish/pipefish/seahorses. In the top left corner of the same image is a yellow-ear angelfish, a pretty fish I’ve not seen myself.