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Posted by achu on 09/30/01 - 23:38:50

Dive Report: Sept. 30

A few things:

I NEVER get seasick on the dive boats... but UGGGG, today it was just really windy and choppy.  The captain kept asking me why I was looking so green! LOL!!!

With all the rain lately, the visibility isnīt as good a usual (which is still better than most diving in the states!!!)

1st dive Tormentos.  I havenīt been to Tormentos in a while.  It is a relatively shallow dive at... say... 50 to 60 feet.  The currents were a little stronger than normal.  I found another 2 of those little "twig" like creatures that poke their head out of the sand.  In fact, I found one swimming.  It is like a little worm swimming along.  I looked it up in the fish ID books once with the instructors at Dive Palancar.  Apparently these little things are related to seahorses...  We found a stunning flounder with really striking flourescent blue spots.  I THINK I saw another version of the toadfish.  The brown ones.  But it was pretty well hidden and my flashlight wasnīt work... as usual...  Overall a nice dive.

2nd dive: Chankanaab.  Lots of HUGE dog sized lobsters... Sigh, they never cease to amaze me. How do they get that big??? A cute little drumfish hiding in a crevice.  Lots of morays and toadfish.  Brrrrr.  I was getting really cold.  NOPE TOM, I forgot to bring my hood... So, near the end of the dive, I was more than ready to surface and get out of the water into the sun and warm up... when the divemaster started to tink on his tank... VERY LOUDLY!  WOW!!! Probably one of the BIGGEST reef sharks Iīve seen yet!  It had 2 whatchamacallit little fish swimming with it (sorry, mind block) and...hey, it has something sticking out of itīs mouth!  HEY!!! Itīs Josh the Parrotfish!!! (just kidding!)  but it had a nice sized fish sticking out of itīs mouth.  AND the fish was still moving!  Everytime the shark opened his mouth to chomp down again, the fish would wriggle out a little more... Of course, in the end, it chomped and swallowed the whole fish
:(   The entire dive group 5 divers and DM were in AWE.  We all hovered there and just watched and watched at the magnificent creature swim around.  Wow!

Finally, we had to surface.  Sigh, a dive to write into the log book!

Happy Diving!

OH ramoras... thatīs what was swimming with the shark!

Achuuuuuu

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