The Antilla was a German freighter that was sunk in 1940. The ship is 400 feet long and there is one large compartment that you can penetrate. The viz was still low and there were tons of people and boats at this site. The snorkel boats were there along with every dive company on the island. The ship was neat to see but this site is way too crowded. There were groups of divers going in all directions and it was pretty had to even figure out which group you were with! Our DM did manage to keep our group together on this dive, but again, we were not overly impressed with the crew. The most personality they showed was when the boat got back to the dock and they were pointing out the tip jar to all of us! Well, after these first 2 days of diving, we were about to cancel some of the rest of our dives and put the money towards something else. Fortunately, the next day we did a "South Coast" 2 -tank dive. WOW…. What a difference. The dive was great with beautiful reefs and much better visibility. The boat left at 8:30am so you had none of the cruise ship crowd or the resort course divers. There were only 8 divers on the whole boat. Our dive master and boat captains on these trips were much better. We dove at a site called The Fingers . It was a drift dive (we had never done one of these!) The reef comes down like a finger and we went to 100 ft. There were beautiful coral formations, sea fans, and a diverse amount of fish. The second dive was at a site called Gino's Choice, max. depth was 60 ft. There was a neat drop off at this site but we couldn't follow it too far down since this was our second dive. There were large brain coral and star coral at this site. We saw many moray eels on this dive.
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