Round Hill diving - enjoy distinctive feeling
Jamaqua offers a wide range of activities including snorkeling tours, rafts, aquaview boards, pedal boats, glass bottom boat, water-skiing and scuba diving. Scuba diving lessons are available. Equipment rental is co-ordinated from the Gazebo below the terrace between 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. Round Hill is not responsible for the safety of anyone taking advantage of the Watersports activities, participation is entirely at your own risk. Jamaqua offers resort courses and certification courses, please dial extension 378, the "Watersports Gazebo" for further information. The Montego Bay area (just call it MoBay) is probably the busiest part of the island for divers. MoBay's diving attraction includes a pilot program of the newly-formed Protected Areas Resource Conservation Project (PARC). The Montego Bay Marine Park was established in May 1990 to preserve and manage Montego Bay's marine resources for the benefit and enjoyment of all its visitors. The park encompasses an area stretching from the Donald Sangster International Airport to the Great River, including all of the major reef tracts in Montego Bay. The most famous of MoBay's dive outings is Widowmaker's Cave. Divers enter the cave at about 80 feet and enjoy a pretty rise through the cave to a chimney 10 feet wide and an exit about 35 feet below the surface. It's worth several return trips, if possible. Further east is the Discovery Bay Marine Laboratory of the West Indies, the largest reef ecology lab in the world. It's run by Peter Gayle, the lab's diving officer and JADO safety officer, and is a great north coast outing for any interested diver. Both snorkelers and divers need to keep a few things in mind while they're visiting the creatures under the ocean waves: Be aware of currents and stay watchful of your location. You don't want to get too far away to return easily. Wear a watch so you don't lose track of time. It's easy to do underwater. Don't feed the fish or touch the animals or coral. Their protective layers can be stripped away. Never stand or walk on a reef and tread carefully on shallow water around reefs. (Shuffle your feet to avoid stingrays, and watch out for sea urchins, spines.) Never wear jewelry. Caribbean fish, barracudas especially, seem drawn to shiny objects that look like their natural prey, small silver fish. Avoid jellyfish, fire coral and other stinging creatures. Never reach into holes or crevices, they might be an animal's home, especially moray eels. Shark sightings are rare, and those that are spotted are usually passive. Keep calm, and if necessary, move slowly out of the water. Never remove anything from diving sites and reefs; it is illegal to do so.
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