I-huh-hi was nibbled ... byh ... clo-huh-hown fish!!! :homealone:
---------- Post added April 8th, 2013 at 11:33 AM ----------
... But seriously:
Diving Kals dream off alor, SE nusa tenggara, which is a pinnacle in a strait that you mostly only dive at slack high tide due to *ripping* currents, I had just finished a 36 m dive on the lee side, and was working my way up, through a mounting incoming tidal down current to the one rock at 7 metres where you can hold on and do your stop as the tide slowly tries too peel the mask from your face and the reg from your mouth, bubbles getting carried away sideways and downwards.
I usually always wave my hands before holding on to anything to scare off whatever might be lounging around, but on this day, due to the current that had even the damsel fish whirling about like leaves in a storm I thought to Hell with it and reached out to grab the rock ledge. Nothing, I thought would wanna be on the other side of that bucket-size rock facing the current head-on. As I put my hand on the rock I felt something slither between my fingers. I pulled myself forward, not letting go to see, and saw the biggest, fattest scorpion fish I've ever seen slide lazily from the rock and settle with a slightly disgruntled look half a metre below.
Apparently It had been hanging on the rock face, head down as my fingers closed around the tail fin.
We quietly shared another 5 minutes of rock time, considering that.
---------- Post added April 8th, 2013 at 11:33 AM ----------
... But seriously:
Diving Kals dream off alor, SE nusa tenggara, which is a pinnacle in a strait that you mostly only dive at slack high tide due to *ripping* currents, I had just finished a 36 m dive on the lee side, and was working my way up, through a mounting incoming tidal down current to the one rock at 7 metres where you can hold on and do your stop as the tide slowly tries too peel the mask from your face and the reg from your mouth, bubbles getting carried away sideways and downwards.
I usually always wave my hands before holding on to anything to scare off whatever might be lounging around, but on this day, due to the current that had even the damsel fish whirling about like leaves in a storm I thought to Hell with it and reached out to grab the rock ledge. Nothing, I thought would wanna be on the other side of that bucket-size rock facing the current head-on. As I put my hand on the rock I felt something slither between my fingers. I pulled myself forward, not letting go to see, and saw the biggest, fattest scorpion fish I've ever seen slide lazily from the rock and settle with a slightly disgruntled look half a metre below.
Apparently It had been hanging on the rock face, head down as my fingers closed around the tail fin.
We quietly shared another 5 minutes of rock time, considering that.
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