Gentle Drifting on the Reefs

Pompano Drift with South Florida Diving Headquarters

It was a beautiful afternoon as 11 active divers set out to explore the gentle drifting reefs of Pompano Beach. The water was a toasty 88 degrees, seas flat calm and a gentle south current. 

Dive 1 - Turtle Ledge

On this dive we saw so many lobsters - too many to count in fact. I don't know how they all survived Mini-Season and regular season! This site had so many vase sponges of all shapes and sizes, and we saw a channel clinging crab inside one of them. We also saw pufferfish and many other beautiful fish like queen and French angelfish. 

Posing in front of the Hillsboro Lighthouse (from left): Angelica Cookson, John Davis, Hilda Balbi, Rachel Davis, Danny Varela, Rudy Lopez, Gabriel Mera, Cheryl Craft, Leah Bamford, Brian McDermott 

Dive 2 - Razzle Dazzle

More gentle drifting in store on this dive but this time with more defined ledges with large clouds of snappers clustering around the ledges. Some had ledges on either side with sand channels in between. We saw two green moral eels on this dive - one of them really huge. A great afternoon for great dives.