While out scuba diving last weekend, I had stumbled upon a small submerged,which I took a few photos of and wrote an article about it.

Both the article and a photo can be seen below:

To the Owner of the "Juani Y David"
I found your boat

It's 8 meters below the surface of La Herradura Playa

If you red this title, and continued to the article, you might be wondering what I mean, well don't worry, I'm about to explain all, but first let me tell you about the "Juani Y David."

The Juani Y David is 304 cm longs and 140 wide. It was a handmade four person rowing boat with a red bow and a white keel. The reason why I know this much about the boat is because I had stumbled upon it last year on the 15th of October, when I was down on La Caliza Playa. At the time, when my and my brother saw the boat washed up on the beach, we were carrying my camera and a measuring tape.

Together we took a few pics of it and measured it before we emptied it of the sand and water inside it and looked for holes. Seeing none, we had dragged it into the water and tested to see if it floats before pulling it back onto the beach, leaving it there, only for it to vanish the next day.

The boat then spent the following few months tied out to a buoy before after a day of rough water and it vanished, disappearing once more, never to be seen again, until now.

Because it was a hot day and we wanted to get out into the water, me and my siblings gathered our scuba equipment onto the beach and made the necessary last minute checks before kitting up and entering the water, following the silent pull of excitement and mystery, the sea knows and holds the locations of many things, and one thing she's great at is luring people into her realm.

Taking the lead, I led my brother and sister deeper into the sea. Instead of doing our usual and swimming right over the rocks, I led them over the sand, just of the rocks and where we would be in a better position to find fish eggs, and we found plenty.

Getting back to the Juani Y David, when we were down 7 metres, I spotted something up ahead. I could clearly see something sitting a little raised up out of the sand and saw something sticking out by 1.5 meters, so signaling my team under water, I directed them over to the boat.

When we reached the boat, our history with boats kicked in. Even when we were rally small, we've always been round boats and the water, so when we see a boat lying on the seabed, we just have to identify it.

I sent Michael to check the Port near the bow and Ash to check the stern, while I swam round and pulled out a length of measuring tape, which I just had inside my BCD, so I used it to take measurements while my dive companions continued to dig away sand.

As I swam up three metres to get a better look at the whole boat, it was only then that I realized that the boat had fit the same measurements and coloring, as the Juani Y David.

My brother had also came to the same conclusion as he waited for the sand to settle, but we didn't know for definite until we saw the name written in the red painted letters, the submerged boat was indeed the Juani Y David.

We then swam back gently, aiming not to disturb any more sand before Michael pulled the camera out and got to work once more, taking the photos of the boat before I gave the command to turn around and head back to shore, we had used up half the air in our tanks.

You see, this is why I love diving, no two dives are ever the same and you never know what you are going to see, whether it a different species of marine life, or if it's a sunken boat with no signs of holes in it that you have seen before.