Bay Cleanup and South Brohard

Great cleanup dive yesterday with Reef Rakers. For those of you who don't know about Reef Rakers, please visit their link above. Great group of kids that dive and clean up our waterways. Yesterday was great with a ton (literal ton, I think) of trash coming out just north of Coquina Boat launch to Leftis Cay. It is amazing to see how dedicated these kids are to come out on a very cold day with 68 degree water and go diving and do a cleanup. I hadn't dived there before, but found a lot of cool stuff. Large Seahorses are in abundance there, found a small Frogfish. Viz was pretty good for that site (there is a lot of mud) with viz up to about 8 feet in places.

Thanks again to Reef Rakers for cleaning up our waterways! Please support their group. Sarasota Scuba Club was out as well to support the clean-up.

Went out on South Brohard today for two open water dives. The students did great and only have two more dives to make before they are certified. Viz was good with 8 to 12 feet. Found a skate in the sand there (I am not great with IDs on skate, so I will be looking it up). The skate was very patient with me and allowed itself to be "unburied" so i could show the students. Found a couple of horse teeth and a meg tooth, but we didn't spend a lot of time in the water. Water temp was 70 degrees.

I heard back from the charter that water temp at 50 feet is still about 73 degrees.