We went on three dives with Ricardo Arce the owner of Ricardo’s Diving Tours.
email: ricardoarcen@hotmail.com
Telephone: 011 52 (200)124-9262
He is a great dive master and I recommend you contact him for your trip to Bahia.
We saw a million (or more) fish
This was not a coral reef but the bay was teeming with life.
Including lots of what we think of as reef fish.
Visibility was about 40 ft
This is a creature that seems to be somewhere between a starfish and a crinoid. We saw it clinging to the little bits of coral that grow in the bay.
The water was about 80 F most of the time but there were serious thermo-clines where the temperature dropped into the low 70’s. These are the first underwater photos I have ever taken. I used an Olympus camera and housing I borrowed from Mark Z. I wanted it to document that we actually did swim with the whale sharks. And it worked (see the whale shark blog post)