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[Divernan]

12. I regret I never got to dive the wall at Bloody Bay

I did get to peer into The Deep, i.e., The Abyss in the Bahamas.
"One of the most dramatic features on New Providence Island is the Tongue-Of-The-Ocean which is a deep oceanic trench that is 120 miles long, and 24 miles wide, with depths reaching 6,000 feet. The Tongue spans the gap between New Providence and Andros Island and comes to with-in a half a mile of shore on the southwest side of New Providence. Imagine the Grand Canyon, filled with water, and within a 1/2 mile of a pristine beach.

Besides creating dramatic visual sights, the Tongue-Of-The-Ocean also creates a unique marine environment. The deep waters bring large pelagic marine life close to shore. Nutrients from the deep well-up through the colder deep waters to the shallower warm waters creating nutrient rich waters in the shallows."

My favorite dive trip was wreck diving on the Japanese, WW II merchant marine ships in Truk Lagoon, Micronesia. And speaking of the deep, I was diving off of Saba in the Dutch West Indies, when a newly certified diver got rapture of the deep and took off toward the depths. Our dive master finally caught up with her at about 180 feet. Glad we had a doctor among our divers to keep an eye on the two of them later. Plus Saba has a medical school complete with hyperbaric chamber if necessary.

The 2 dive shops which organized the trips I went on both went out of business and my dive buddy retired to Florida - I have to face that my diving days are over - but oh, what fantastic experiences, and what a magnificent underwater world I was privileged to visit. Only another diver can appreciate the experience - and on those rare occasions I run into one, we have such a great time swapping dive stories.