Diving the Indian Ocean from coastal East Africa

Looking at a trip yonder to East Africa...possibility exists of adding
a couple of extra days on a small island not too far from
Dar-Es-Salaam, Tanzanea.

Diving's not the primary purpose of the trip...wondering if the
diving's good enough to be worth dragging along the extra gear & UW
Camera for just a couple of days or not. Looks like there's warm &
clear water, but not sure about critter life...pelagics, big stuff, or
been fished out, etc.

Anyone been over that way & have any comments?

morgand...

-hh...

Yes, it does help. Based on Dave Morgan's comments, it looks like the
area has good enough dive operators today, which effectively distilled
my question down to if the diving was good enough for lugging the bag
for at most 2 days of diving. For 60ft viz and a short stop, I think
I'll pass, as I'll have enough other stuff on my plate.

FWIW, the place I was thinking of going wasn't on Zanzibar Island, but
was a small, well-rated private island named "Lazy Lagoon". Its
technically in the Zanzibar Channel, but its much closer to the
mainland, being just 15 minutes by boat offshore of Bagamoyo ... the
oldest town in Tanzania, and a world heritage site. Bagamoyo is an
hour's drive north of Dar es Salaam on reportedly poor roads (another
strike), and a photo of Bagamoyo's waterfront showed fishing boats
grounded by low tide, so with this evidence of a pretty significant
tide, which with non-rocky shorelines often means poor viz, it didn't
appear necessarily too promising...hence my inquiry.

Thanks again, both you and Dave.

Try

-hh...

Thanks; have you used this company?

morgand...

Yes, if you look at my Egypt page i actually recommend them, they have an
operation in Sharm which i allways use.........and also in Africa.

FWIW, I'm trying to get a bit beyond the normal website marketing ... I
don't think I've ever seen a dive operation website who's said "the
diving here isn't very good, but please come anyway" :-)

morgand...

Yes, most business's are not in the business of sales limitation......
Allthough i take that back after reminding myself of the way we as
customers get spoken to at times......

-hh...

So it sounds like this is a good company up in Sharm, but the actual
quality of the diving down near Dar-Es-Salaam ...further off the beaten
path... is the unknown. Okay, I can cope with that.

morgand...

If you look at their website they do have operations down that way.

Dave Morgan @ Work in the UK

Dave Morgan @ Work in the UK

Have a good trip........
Dave Morgan @ Work in the UK