We leave behind a new week of adventures exploring the waters of the Red Sea, this time with the company of our colleagues from CASCO ANTIGUO, TDS and old friends from Catalonia.
It has been a few days and nights, full of surprises that began by entering the waters of Ras Mohammed, where we dived into the Kingston accompanied by a whitetip shark.
The wind insisted on being an inseparable companion of our route and made us go through some rough crossings, which did not prevent our crew from reaching the Abu Nuhas and Gubal straits where we could dive into their incredible wrecks. Silence took over our divers before facing the dive on the Salem Express, which is explored with the respect that a shipwreck deserves with hundreds of deceased whose memories accompanied us during the two incursions we made to the ship.
As has become a classic on our trips, the route had a happy encounter on the high seas with a group of dolphins, especially playful, who gave us jumps and acrobatics to the rhythm of the waves while we admired them while snorkeling.
And the finishing touch to our trip was once again put on by the SS. Thistlegorm for another week. Thistlegorm, one of the great treasures of the seabed that gave us three movie dives. The stars, some planets and the expertise of our guides allowed us to explore its rooms completely alone, entering its cargo compartments as if our lights were the ones that illuminated all that material for the first time. The large turtle that has been resting for years on the underside of one of the two locomotives did not greet us and there was no shortage of that incredible species of nudibranchs in a festive green and black that we have only seen in this sea and inside this wreck. Each one takes home their best memory, but there was consensus among our divers in those ten minutes with all the flashlights off in which we guided ourselves around the contour of the ship with the reflection of the moon. An unforgettable memory in black and white.
As you all know, diving is a practice that generates complicity and trust, in and out of the water. Things went very well down there, because on the surface, in our Bella 1, the group functioned as a big family that had a great time living together. Everything happened to us. Laughter, stories, battles and an unexpected live connection with The Ana Rosa Program on Tele 5, in which two of our divers, Dani Montero and Maika Navarro, entered from our boat to welcome the journalist on her reinstatement after a few months of battle against cancer.
Thank you for your trust! They threaten to return and for us and our crew it will be a pleasure to welcome them again to explore together the treasures of the Red Sea.