After several years of wanting to dive the wreck of the ࢬChikuzenࢭ but never having the right weather or enough people to make a dive group, we finally dove this site today with Dive BVI out of Leverick Bay and got to see some of the wildlife in and around the wreck.
We’d anchored off Saba so had to motor over to Leverick in order to get a mooring ball for the day and make it to the dive boat by 08:00; I hadn’t put together my underwater camera yet so woke up a 06:00 in order to get that done, only to find that I was missing a cable for the underwater flash so I ended up setting the camera to a high ISO setting and dispensing with the flash for the next couple of dives. We started off early, but had to pick up people from a boat at the Bitter End and also at Spanish Town. Out at the sea the swell was picking up but still acceptable for a dive – but when we got to the (yellow, commercial) mooring ball there was a charter Catamaran on it who refused to vacate, at least until the captain said that he’d take pictures, report the boat and operators to the authorities and be subject to a fine; whereupon they left with very ill grace indeed.
The dive was a beautiful one and some of the pictures turned out quite well. The swell had picked up after we resurfaced, so the second dive was at a site called ࢬProject Ocean Surveyࢭ off Cockroach Island in the Dog Island group off Virgin Gorda and that had some nice scenery to see as well.
The two dives exhausted us, so we had a big dinner aboard the boat with Rob cooking and mastering the BBQ while Nat made salad and I was a mere spectator.
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