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| Whale Rock |
| This site has a notorious history, as it is here that many ships floundered while entering or leaving haurbors of Grand Baie and Port Louis. The bones of these ships have either rotted away or have been covered by nature, because there are no pieces left laying about only silent ghosts dissionate official entries in the annals of Mauritian Nautical history remain. Whale Rock comprises a series of large black slabs of rock which are at diiferent depths on the drop off. Because of the varied topographied nature of this site, some diving centres divide the site into three different dive. However, since the three sites can be done in a single drift dive they can be treated as a single dive. This site can also be divied in two: 1) By going down to 38m and then slowly rising to 15m using the correct ascent to decompress. 2) Or by starting at 15m and then descending down to 38m with appropriate decompression at the end of the dive. At its deepest point the dive is characterized by large canyons and huge rocks with small caves locked in between. Here sea fans, huge stone corals, whip coral, black coral, scorpian fish and green morays can be seen. Occasionally hammerhead sharks make their apperance, as do small shoals of kingfish. Swimming up to 25m the rock formations as they rise, are less impressive and the fish species change slightly to include, sweetlip, parrot fish, moonfish, snappers and ocasionally shoals of baracuda and large squid. At 20m-15m include the samller and prettier fish, such as angelfish and groupers. |