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Well I've just returned from a fantastic trip to Menorca. I actually only managed to scuba dive once, although I was snorkelling / freediving nearly every day and playing with octopus, congers, and cuttlefish.
The one dive I did get to do, and I'm going to write about here, is the 'Pont En Gil Caves', which if you have this month's "Scuba World" magazine, it is the dive reported in there.
'World-class cavern dive' doesn't even start to do it justice. You come out of the boat in a secluded bay with a huge arch on one side. After dropping down to the bed at 17m, you follow towards the arch, where the ground gets rocky and covered in boulders, in which live many congers and other assorted undersea fauna. Going under the arch and through to the left, you follow a funnel like structure and slowly going in it gets darker and darker. With torches on, rising to about 10m you go inside the cavern, and about 20m inside, you come to the halocline, when your eyes feel like you haven't got a mask on. Going through the 'gelatine' you surface inside an amazing cave, which stretches for 200m underground. We went in along the surface, looking inside the cavern (air is breatheable, so no cylinder depletion!!), and then returned underwater, looking at crabs, congers, octopus etc..
Viz was about 25m-ish, as they had some bad storms the week before I went.
I dived with 7Fathoms, who are based in Cala'N Forcat near where I was staying (Menorca Sea Club), although there are other dive operations, such as CSS (Crystal Seas Scuba).
Well I've just returned from a fantastic trip to Menorca. I actually only managed to scuba dive once, although I was snorkelling / freediving nearly every day and playing with octopus, congers, and cuttlefish.
The one dive I did get to do, and I'm going to write about here, is the 'Pont En Gil Caves', which if you have this month's "Scuba World" magazine, it is the dive reported in there.
'World-class cavern dive' doesn't even start to do it justice. You come out of the boat in a secluded bay with a huge arch on one side. After dropping down to the bed at 17m, you follow towards the arch, where the ground gets rocky and covered in boulders, in which live many congers and other assorted undersea fauna. Going under the arch and through to the left, you follow a funnel like structure and slowly going in it gets darker and darker. With torches on, rising to about 10m you go inside the cavern, and about 20m inside, you come to the halocline, when your eyes feel like you haven't got a mask on. Going through the 'gelatine' you surface inside an amazing cave, which stretches for 200m underground. We went in along the surface, looking inside the cavern (air is breatheable, so no cylinder depletion!!), and then returned underwater, looking at crabs, congers, octopus etc..
Viz was about 25m-ish, as they had some bad storms the week before I went.
I dived with 7Fathoms, who are based in Cala'N Forcat near where I was staying (Menorca Sea Club), although there are other dive operations, such as CSS (Crystal Seas Scuba).
