ScubaBrucie

I went to Menorca for a week to do some gardening for my mother. Over the week I managed to fit in 6 dives at Salgar Diving. As ever they are a very pleasant and efficient crowd to dive with and it was very nice to be doing those great Menorcean cave and cavern dives again. The water temperature was about 23C and the visibility was about 25 metres.

The excellent news is that their instructor, Ali, has passed his full cave course with Phil Short (I should have done mine with a proper instructor like Phil instead of the idiot I chose). As a result Ali is now teaching the PADI Cavern speciality. This is a four dive course and costs just 299 Euros. So now you can nip out for a long weekend, work on your overhead skills and come back with your first ticket on the road to full cave. Talk to Helen at Salgar if you are interested, she can help with your trip arrangements.

Menorcean dives are very scenic but each year they are getting better as the fish population grows. The locals now seem to get their fish from the supermarket, leaving fishstocks on the divesites to recover. Especially impressive is the growing population of large groupers. Also by the cleaning stations along the top of the drop off at Stanley’s Drop Off you can now see very many thousands of fish at one time.