What a surprise to find your article as I was researching to find out more about the Cay Sal wall.

My first dive trip in 1976 was a 5-day tour of the Cay Sal bank. Two of our most memorable dives were a wall dive and a wreck dive.

The wall was literally a vertical drop with the top edge about 60 feet down and disappearing into the darkness. We dove 190 feet, until you couldn’t see anymore without a light, and had to return because of the time limitation at that depth. Lots of marine life, including a large spider crab clinging to the wall. It’s the deepest I’ve ever dived. Do you know the geological background of the wall and how deep it is? Is it a trench or just the edge of the bank? It seemed more like a trench because it had two sides.

The wreck dive was in the harbor of one of the cays that had the ruins of a small settlement and lighthouse on the land. The wreck was an old steamship with all the metal steamworks (gears, boilers, smokestacks) still intact. You could also access an inland lagoon by swimming through a small underwater hole in the coral rocks. Do you know this cay? Does it have a name?

Let’s stay in touch. Send me an e-mail and let me know how things are going with you and Cynthia. I live in Holland now. You should come visit sometime. Megan and Clay were just here last spring. – Rod