Dive Review of Diving the Crab/Chale Sands in
Africa/Diani Beach

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Diving the Crab/Chale Sands: "nudis", Dec, 2024, by Michael Joest, Kehl, DE ( Top Contributor 50 reports with 30 Helpful votes). Report 13297.
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Comments	Africa, Kenya, Diani Beach, Chale Sands Resort, Diving the Crab Normally on a dive I´m the only guy blowing rings under water on safety stop. This time however a Swedish instructor girl Carolina surpassed me in that area. She managed to blow quite a few really good ones going all the way up to the surface, and then only it counts as real good she told me. My rings broke immediately maybe due to a lack or chance to practice. To get away from Christmas and New Year fuss and cold at home I aimed for Africa Kenia this year. I´ve been in the north in the Watamu area (undercurrent chapbook 2020) so it would be turning south this time. Diani beach rang a distant bell in my diver ears, so I looked around there. Found that luxurious Chale Sands resort on a peninsula close to the shore. It was a bit heavy on my budget, but well, I turn 73, how many more years would I have, so …. Remember, “you don´t stop diving when you get old, you get old when ….. “ It was pouring when we touched down at Mombasa, only a short tropical downpour or would that be an omen for my holidays? On arrival at Chale the Swedish girl happily told me” we have a lot of lovely nudis here”. Well this was about the last thing I wanted to spot under water, I´m the “looking out into the blue” type of diver. So I was a bit worried if the reef here could satisfy me. Our first dive took us a bit south. My buddy was Greg, surprise here, an US diver you seldom find in this part of the world, because I guess it´s a hell of a trip whether from east or west coast to come here. Vis was around 5 m , 28 C, went with only a 3 mm chicken vest. It was a shallow reef sparsely covered with coral in about 15 to 18 m. My disappointment must have shown in my face as Greg later told me: “Mike, it´s not gona get better”. Maybe my expectations were too high for this area. They offer two tanks in the morning, steel tanks, you hardly need weights, Nitrox is for free. At low tide you need reef shoes to reach the boat “Kitty” where luckily they have 2 choices to start, right from the beach or with too strong a surf at the jetty in the back of the island where you arrive by tractor/boat from the main land. Dzinani Dive. Way up north to a lovely reef with lots of overhangs, crevices, boulders in 18 m. Fish life was good, a bunch of yellow snappers, a school of th ... Subscribe to get the full story. Active subscribers continue reading here
Websites	Diving the Crab
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	Over 1000 dives
Where else diving	worldwide more than 100 destinations, mostly South Pacific and Asia, Africa and Caribbean
Closest Airport	Mombasa	Getting There
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny, windy, cloudy	Seas	calm, surge, currents
Water Temp	28-29°C / 82-84°F	Wetsuit Thickness	3
Water Visibility	5-15 M / 16-49 Ft
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	yes
Enforced diving restrictions	+ - 30 m
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	yes
What I Saw
Sharks	None	Mantas	None
Dolphins	Schools	Whale Sharks	None
Turtles	> 2	Whales	None
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Corals		Tropical Fish
Small Critters		Large Fish
Large Pelagics
Underwater Photography 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Subject Matter		Boat Facilities	N/A
Overall rating for UWP's		Shore Facilities
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Dive Review of Diving the Crab/Chale Sands in Africa/Diani Beach

Diving the Crab/Chale Sands: "nudis", Dec, 2024,

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Dive Review of Diving the Crab/Chale Sands in
Africa/Diani Beach