Second dive: Crystal Bay

The second dive, at Crystal Bay, was even colder. Indeed, ridiculously so. The top 10 meters were about 23 degrees, the bottom, was again around 16. This was simply not divable. Without the hood, the area around the aorta became burning cold, and the dive would have lasted a dangerous 15 minutes. So I asked the guide to stay above the thermocline, and we spent a total of (still very cold) 45 minutes, looking for Mola Molas. These are said to come to about 330 meters at this time of the year, ad even all the way to the surface. This is amazing, given that these animals spend the rest of the year at depths of about 300 meters. However, we were late in the day, and could not find any large fish. I guess the low visibility did not help much. So overall, the dive was cold but lacked any sort of event.

The thermocline painted amazing pictures of divers, at only about 3 meters distance. I was on top, the picture was taken right through the zone where the different layers of water clash.

Alex the freezing Kangaroo