Some of our clients ask if I ever go for a fun dive since I am diving all the time. Here is the answer.

This afternoon I went with two friends, one is a scuba instructor as well and the other one is an underwater videographer to have fun under water without any worries about clients. Just for pure fun, and boy I can tell you it was. Playing around like little kids, looking at everything, having a good time. I hope I get the video soon so I can post some clips from it too.

We found couple places that weren’t safe for tourists, so we removed some doors that were still hanging there, tightened some loose ends to make sure nobody gets hurt. Thanks guys for the great time!!!

The new cave we discovered in January is beautiful. Since not too many people know about it, the cave is still untouched, not damaged yet by anybody.

We met a great couple from Sweden and were teaching them to scuba dive. Some people want to take the course but don’t feel comfortable with all the new equipment on and lots of new things to do while under water. We make sure that they are introduced to the new environment slowly and safely.

After the first ocean dive everything was getting better and at the end the students – now certified divers – enjoyed every second of their time being under water.

The cave dive is our favorite, especially the cave that nobody goes to. Everything is so beautiful and undamaged.

We met a great young couple who wanted to learn scuba diving and booked the Open Water Diver course with us. They finished the theory online through PADI, so we could start right away with the skills. The pool training took one day, at the end was the final test. Then the ocean dives, 2 days 2 dives each day and we had new certified scuba divers that loved every minute of it. Congratulations Cliona and Marco!!!

This is what we love, meeting great new people, that become our friends at the end of their vacation. Hope to see you guys back sometimes!!!

The diving and snorkeling trip on this beautiful Sunday, was probably the best trip ever.

We went for a dive to Tortuga, hoping to see again the nurse sharks that live there. I guess they went for a weekend trip too and we didn’t see any. The visibility was great, so even we didn’t see the sharks on this dive, we saw lots of big stingrays that were very friendly and let us watch them from a very close distance. Lots of puffer fish and gigantic trumpet fish.

After the dive we cruised along the coast, stopped at Piscina Natural, then continued to mangroves and a beautiful lagoon at the end. On the way back we went to see the wreck of Atlantic Princess, it’s getting ready for a move to a new location where it will be sank as a new wreck for divers.

We finished the trip like most of the time snorkeling by Casa del Mar (new name Dreams resort) in Bayahibe Bay and as always we saw tons of fish there. A perfect trip with a perfect end.

Exploring new dive sites around Bayahibe is very exciting and it’s our passion, especially if we can find more sites with sharks or new wrecks.

We’ve heard from locals that there are many other areas that could be interesting and they see sharks frequently there. The local fishermen are the best source of info, they know their waters the best.

We spent all day going to different spots we’ve heard about, did few dives, but unfortunately we couldn’t see any sharks. Little tired, we decided to return and were going slowly back to Bayahibe bay, when we spotted a group of dolphins. And that was as exciting as finding anything new under water. They were jumping and playing around our boat for about an hour. So our expedition was succesful at the end, we saw something that we don’t see here everyday. Look at the short video we made.

Dolphins in Bayahibe Dominican Republic

We met Mike and his family that wanted to see the underwater world for a first time. Everything went well and they had a great first time diving experience. Hopefully they will become a part of the diving community in the near future.

Then we did the cave dive with their son (experienced diver already) and he loved it. The cave dive seams to be the most popular dive these days.

Thanks guys for diving with us, hope to see you in Bayahibe, Dominican Republic again!

We wanted to go and check how much if any dive sites were damaged by the storms we had last month and if the visibility was getting better. We went to Dominicus reef, Coco wreck and to La Roca (that is a great site to dive). It has been two weeks since the last storm, water was nice and calm, some of the reefs were still covered by the sand but clearing well. The visibility was getting back to normal.

We had fun week of diving with two guys from Florida. They chose the best weather they could, came after the tropical storms Hanna and Ike and before Josephine that caused lots of flooding in our area

We did many dives,  Park, Tortuga, wreck, Stingray point and cave dive, just to name a few.

Some highlights from the week of diving:

Tortuga – we saw school of  more then 10 eagle rays which is very unusual, they were about 30 ft away from us but guys were not looking so I made a mistake and used my shaker to get their attention instead of taking pictures first. Therefore the eagle rays changed the direction and swam away before I had a chance to take a single picture

Stingray point – the ocean was still little unsettled after the storms but we saw about 15 stingrays, and that was the least amount of stingrays we’ve seen diving there. Normally there are more then 50 of them.

Wreck St.George – we saw two huge barracudas

Last dive was the cave dive – the best dive of the week. No words can describe the beauty, so see some pictures instead.

Thanks guys for coming and diving with us, hope to see you back in Bayahibe, Dominican Republic again in the near future