Although it hasn't been comfirmed yet, it seems that our source of updates, Berny Snow, has become a victim of the Sasser computer worm, so we're out of contact at the moment.

As soon as it's all fixed, we'll start updating the blog again, so be prepared for lots of news in one go...

Saturday

Dived at Leadsman N this is in the sanctuary (no take area) Kerry conducted fish counts at 120 mrgin and at the 160 terrace. There were lots of fish and in particular

• Slinger
  
• Yellowtail
  
• Blueskin
  
• Rock cod

Kerry focuses on commercially important species and coelacanth prey items.

Yesterday Andrew Green went down in the sub to do a geplogical dive at Diep Gat canyon. They spent 8 hours in the water. He looked at the rockformations at the various depths and collected a sediment sample from the canyon bottom at 367m. These he will compare with the grab samples taken previously.

They also spent 3 of those 8 hours looking for coelacanths, there was very little cave structure and no coelacanths were found.

Today they are at Leven Canyon, as yet unexplored due to strong currents in the past. They may split the dive over two days starting shallow and then going deeper.

Hello,

Yesterday, 5 coelacanths were found in Jesser Canyon.  After looking in all the usual places, they were found, near the end of the dive, in a cave where they usually do not occur. This is the last dive close to the Bay, they are going to move north and south again and cell phone reception is not very good.

They are also planning to explore deeper and not only in the expected range of the coelacanths.