Lemon Sharks spotted in Tenerife

Had a fantastic dive this morning here in Tenerife, I was helping out Chris & Sarah of Tenerife Scuba as Chris has been a little under the weather we only had one client today Steve Woods from Somerset so we decided to go & do one of the most spectacular dives here in Tenerife a dive site that I call White Moon. A site where I have often seen large Grouper, Atlantic ray's, Barracuda & every so often you see something special like large Madrigal or big Tuna & even Dolphins, but today was extra special.

The dive started well enough anyway with 4 medium size Grouper following us as we descended past 30mts to a wall of black coral at the bottom of the wall now in 45mts there is a swim through almost hidden by the black coral as we go through we can see on the other side a shoal of large Barracuda just circling below the black coral as we watch the barracuda I can see something big coming our way, at first I thought that it might be a couple of madrigal which we quite often see in this area but to my surprise it turned out to be 2 Lemon Sharks about 3 mts in length well you can imagine our surprise we looked at each other in complete amazement as we watched these magnificent creatures just circle the barracuda and the reef they circled two or three times at one point swimming right over our heads so close that if I had reached out my hand I could have touched them, then just as soon as they arrived they were off swimming of in to the distance.

After all that excitement we could have finished the dive there and then and been very happy about it but we still had plenty of time and air left so we continued the dive along the edge of the reef there was still plenty to see along the way with a couple of large Atlantic rays feeding on the bottom, as we started our ascent to our deco stop I could not help but wonder just where those two Lemon Sharks had gone, well we finished the dive at the top of the reef with a 12 minute deco stop at 6mts. But wow what a dive, I will remember this one for a long time.

Thanks Steve for a great Dive.

Tony

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Wreck Diving Tenerife

The wreck of the Condesito,

She sank on Christmas day in 1972 the story goes, that she was making her way over night from Santa Cruz with a cargo of bags of cement & was caught in a storm fortunately no one was hurt in this incident.
A lighthouse was built close by some three years later, the Condesito smashed on to the rocks braking its back and slipping into the sea where it settled perfectly parked in a gully in 18mts. the wreck has become one of the favorite dives for many divers visiting Tenerife.

Over the years the Condesito has deteriorated some what especially over the last 5 years with much of the super structure is now collapsing but you can still see the huge boiler & engine room as you dive over the wreck much of its cargo is still scattered about like giant pillows and is home to many varieties of marine life, such as Trumpet fish, Octopus, Cuttlefish, Parot fish & many many more.