At 8am we got on the boat with Club Med to snorkel on the Frascate Wreck and Bull Run Cut on the Wall. This was the first time I have ever been on a boat and it was a very fun experience. Luckily, the waves were mostly calm for how far out we were! The wreck site was very interesting. The captain told us the wreck happened in 1902 because of the coral reef; later, the US Navy decided to blow it up to keep other ships from wrecking on it.
I was not comfortable enough to go out to the reef but the area around the boat was just as interesting. There were many schools of fish around and also a lot of parrot fish eating the algae growing on the wreck. There was a school of fish that were black and white colored that are called Banded Butterflyfish. I also saw several kinds of parrot fishes including Redtail Parrotfish (terminal phase) and Stoplight Parrotfish (initial phase).
After leaving the wreck it was a short boat ride to Bull Run Cut on the Wall. The wall is is where the shallow platform drops off into the deep ocean, so the water depth was much deeper there, increasing from the 20-30 foot depth at the wreck to about 100 feet at the wall. If we had gone farther out, we would have been swimming over a much deeper water.
-Contributed by Albedo
Photo credit: Jill
