The dive site at Ibo Island is a fantastic dive for new divers doing their PADI Open Water course.With a vertical wall of pristine reef from 18m to 5m, diving here is always spectacular as it was the other day with Rhys, Joaquim and Emma...
"A typical dive at Ibo! Happily watching a huge school of 4 line snappers, the biggest turtle I have ever seen makes an entrance from amongst them. I want to say meter and a half, but people will laugh at me and I don’t have a picture to prove it! Moments later a white tip reef shark accompanied by two juvenile cobias (maybe adult remora, they look so similar) appears. The cobias found us far more interesting than the shark, staying with us for the entire dive with one even hitching a ride on the other trying to hitch onto my fins!
"Being OW dive 4 I was already patting myself on the back (good instructor!), thanking my luck, when we saw two of my favourite things in diving. First a school of batfish: always inquisitive and happy to pose. Typically, a few got excited by our presence and hung around long enough to get alarmed by the disappearance of their friends. Nothing quite like the look of “bugger, where are my mates?” in a batfishes eye! Then, just in case we hadn’t filled our logbooks, a Clown Triggerfish on our safety stop. Not bad for Open Water dive 4." Rhys Cutler, Activities Manager and Dive Instructor.
