Our ocean diver trainees were in Bovisand last Monday on their second sheltered water training dive. However the past few weeks of wall to wall sunshine following such a cold winter has been the perfect recipe for an epic plankton bloom, causing underwater visibility to crash. Some divers report visibilities of mere inches! On this occasion though, the English Channel wanted to give our divers a treat and presented to them a new friend - a bottle nosed dolphin!
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Swimming with dolphins is one of most popular items on the "100 Things to do Before You Die" list (currently number 8). Most people associate dolphins with tropical waters but Common Atlantic Bottlenose Dolphins are distributed, be it sparsly and unpredicrably, as far north as the Shetland Islands.
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So although they are found in and around British waters they don't make many appearances, and our divers are extraordinarily lucky to have gotten so close to such a friendly and intelligent marine creature so early on in their diving journey. It will certainly be one of the most memorable dives they will ever recount!
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