From our sugar scoop I lowered myself into the water with my dive gear on, submerged, turned around and gasped, yes through my regulator. The reef at Key Largo Dry Rocks was gorgeous! There were fish everywhere, from the top of the water column down to the ocean floor. There were large coral heads with zillions of soft corals and sponges. The lighting was perfect and the visibility excellent. I felt like I was diving in a giant aquarium.
We’d gone to Key Largo Dry Rocks to do the touristy thing and see the Christ of the Abyss statue. So after taking in that astounding first view of the reef, we set out to find the statue. Twenty minutes later we found it. This 9-foot bronze statue sits in 25 feet of water about 3 nm off the coast of Key Largo at Key Largo Dry Rocks in John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park. It was placed there in 1965, one of three such statues in the world cast from the mold created by Guido Galletti. The original is in the Mediterranean off San Fruttuoso on the Italian Riviera. The other is off the coast of St. George’s Grenada (I look forward to diving at this one when we finally get to Grenada). We took the obligatory photos and moved on to exploring the reef.
Although the statue is what brought us to that particular spot, we ended up being treated to the best dive of the dozen or so places we dove in August. Nature laid out this reef as a series of fingers, the fingers being lines of large corn heads separated by sandy gullies. There was so much to see and in our two dives on the reef that day we hardly covered it all. There were fish above, around and hiding beneath the coral heads. It was an underwater wonderland!
My camera barely does it justice, but the clip below is the best of what I caught on video. No music this time, just the sounds of me breathing through the regulator. Enjoy!
Life on Lady 
That was nice! So glad you identified the fish.
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Great video! What kind of camera do you use?
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