Saturday, 13th of July 2024

It is Saturday and the crew gets the boat ready to welcome our 13 guests onboard TCAII at 4pm! As the new guests come onboard, they set up their gear, check in with their certifications, get settle in their rooms, and off course, a delicious welcome snacks prepared by Chef Flowers. 

At 5:30pm we have a safety briefing with Captain Mateo where he explains the rules of the marine park as well as the safety procedures and practices onboard. After a delicious dinner, and a long day of traveling, our guests went to sleep with full bellies and excitement for the dives the next day in South Bank Marina!

Sunday 14th of July 2024

To take advantage of the high tide we left the South Bank marina at 5 am to head to West Caicos. All the guests came up for breakfast around 6:30am ready to start the day.  After breakfast we have our diving briefing, and we are all set for the first dive of the week at the Gullies. And we started very well the week, sharks, neck crabs, porcupine fish, marcellas and all kinds of other fish!

We move onto Magic Mushroom for the afternoon and night dives. A crew favorite for the beautiful wall and coral boomies in the shallows, we spotted stingrays, crabs, a turtle, moray eel, a tiny squid and slender file fish!

When our guests come back from the night dive, we have some hot chocolate ready for them, and it is just time for bed, tomorrow we have more.

Monday 15th of July 2024

We move early in the morning to Brandy Wine. Here, the guests are treated to another turtle, more sharks, eels (green moray eel and spotted moray eel), multiple drum fish and a massive pufferfish. 

Over lunch we made our way over to French Cay to Rock-n-Roll for our afternoon dives and night dive. One of the spots on French Cay known for the famous shark frenzy night dive. We had nice visibility and had great interactions with nurse sharks, Caribbean reef sharks, multiple octopus, lobsters, blennies. The highlight of the day was seeing the nurse and reef sharks hunting at night. We were even lucky enough to have a very up-close view of a nurse shark successfully catching and eating a surgeon fish.

Tuesday 16th of July 2024

What a beautiful sunrise in French Cay. After breakfast the guests were treated to a dolphin hunting in a school of jacks at the stern of the boat. After the guests enjoyed the show of the dolphin we moved to Double D. The guests encountered to 3 more octopus on the second dive, another turtle, trumpet fish, pistol shrimps, and drumfish.

Lunch was a feast with fried rice and edamame by chef Flowers. After that, everybody needs a nap to recharge for the afternoon dive. 

We moved to G-Spot, for the afternoon and night dives. G-Spot is the other dive site on French Cay that is famous for the famous shark frenzy night dive! The dives at G-Spot were filled with many nurse sharks and reef sharks, barracudas, more octopus, and the tiny drum fish.

Wednesday 17th of July 2024

In the morning, we made our way back to West Caicos! After a delicious breakfast of French toast, eggs, and sausage links we had our morning dives at Driveway. The dives were filled with many shrimp sightings such as multiple mantis shrimps, squat shrimps, Pederson cleaning shrimps and coral banded shrimps, turtle, stingray, lobsters, and a spotted drum.

For the afternoon dives we moved to Spanish Anchor. This dive site gets its name from an anchor that is encrusted in a swim through that leads to the beautiful wall filled with various coral and tube sponges. During the dive all the divers saw the encrusted anchor, in addition to blue chromis, squat shrimp, green moray eel, jawfish, reef sharks, octopus and a peacock flounder.

Thursday 18th of July 2024

As the guests are enjoying another wonderful breakfast, we move the boat to Elephant Ear Canyon. It gets its name because from a big elephant ear sponge located in a canyon that leads to the wall. The wall at this dive site is gorgeous, gorgonians, soft and hard coral, sponges of all colors and shapes, turtle grass, and full of life, stingray, arrow blenny, garden eels, head shield slug, flapping dingbat and a green turtle.

After the morning dives we head for Northwest Point to do our afternoon dives at Coral Stairway. Coral stairway is a beautiful dive site with heaps of plate corals that look like a stairway. The divers saw many channel clinging crabs, pipefish, arrow blennies, a massive barracuda, brittle stars, octopus & slipper lobster.

Friday 19th of July 2024

That sad time has come, and we get ready for the last dives of this week. We move early in the morning to The Dome. A dive site made famous by a French TV show where you can dive the wreckage of the set that was once an adventurous challenge. The sharks, turtles, and stingrays all came out to say goodbye as we made our way back Turtle Cove Marina. We don’t arrive in the marina until 430 pm but just in time to enjoy a lovely wine and cheese evening to wrap up the week and celebrate all the dives we had!