Day 3 - It Didn’t Start So Well – 20/11/2014

The day started badly. There was vomiting, medicinal drugs and time for recovery. As such I missed the first dive – yet another trip round the Thistlegorm. By the time we’d moved to the second site, the humorously named Small Crack, the drugs were kicking in. I was fit to dive.

The Small Crack began with a rhib to the outer part of the lagoon. We rolled off and dropped down to around 20m - practically on top of a large moray eel. Swimming along for what seemed like ages we finally reached the area that formed the crack. The tide which was rushing into the lagoon soon sucked us through the shallow canyon towards the boat. It was great fun. The Zookeeper and I missed it by a considerable margin and had to be towed back to the ship by the rhib. I felt a tinge of 007. The dive also saw me break my duration record – 71 minutes.

The remaining dives of the day were at a site named the Alternatives. I think  because you should dive somewhere alternative. Despite a dull first dive on the site the night dive improved considerably. The dive included:

• an inquisitive masked puffer fish
• a scrawled filefish (90cms)
• a bait ball being attacked by barracuda and squid

No biggies yet. However, tomorrow is another day.

Moray Eel

Swimming Away

Upstanding Member of the Dive Community

Masked Pufferfish

Goatfish

Scrawled Filefish