There are several ship wrecks and a little coral reef near the city of Salvador, in the northeastern state of Bahia. All good dive sites are at a depth range of 8-36 meters. Visibility is between 4 and 30 meters outside the bay, and in the range of 3-15 meters inside the bay. It takes only a short boat ride to visit the 170-meter-long Cavo Artemidi, which is the biggest ship wreck in Brazil. Other good dive sites are Banco da Panela (a drift dive through an archeological site where about 90 ships sunk in a single night of battle back in year 1624), Galeão Sacramento (1668 wreck which sunk while bringing from Portugal the Governor of Bahia), Blackadder (1905 wreck fully covered in corals) and Casco (rock formations with lots of fish). The best time to dive in Salvador is from August to March. Dive Bahia is the dive outfit that I've been using for the last few years, as they are the only ones that go out every day (except on Mondays).

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*All photos were taken with a Fuji F31 compact camera without a strobe

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The following pictures were taken on 26 January 2008 in the dive site known as Casco. Visibility was about 4 meters but there was plenty of fish around. We had the pleasure of having with us the veteran technical diver Bruno Fagundes with his brand new Megalodon rebreather on a dive that lasted for 3 hours and 6 minutes.

Amazônia Azul
1° Salão de Fotografia do Mar
6 to 31 December 2007

In commemoration of the bicentennial anniversary of Marquês de Tamandaré,
the Brazilian Navy selected and displayed works by four Brazilian underwater photographers.



Mestre da Camuflagem



Janela no Mar

Humpback Whales

Three humpback whales entered Baía de Todos os Santos on 27 July 2007. The mammals were seen by us 1 km offshore Yacht Club da Bahia at 6:45 a.m. and were followed visually to Avenida do Contorno, when they returned towards Farol da Barra, keeping a distance of approximately 600 meters from the coast. Around 7:20 a.m. we lost sight of the whales due to light rain.