exnewwavedivers
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Once day a year ago, I was explaining to one divemaster candidate that sometimes, divers may dive in popular dive sites and forget seeing anything years later. On the other hand, some divers may dive in places most people would not even think about diving and remember that dive for the rest of their lives.
On that particular day, we went out for a dive in Boracay's beach front. Shallow and gentle sandy slope going down to a maximum of 4 meters even if you've already swam 50m from the shore. A few rock formations here and there, some patches of seagrass as you reach 5m.
I figured this would be a good place to train someone with natural reference using sandy contour. While swimming, I accidentally found a small octopus... baby one and the head is just about half-centimeter big. After watching it for couple of minutes, I noticed a flounder not more than 1 meter away. The divemaster candidate and I continued to look at the baby octopus while the flounder worked it's way closer. Suddenly, without warning, that flounder devoured that poor baby octopus with our faces just inches away!
How many times have you actually seen any aquatic animal eating another one?
The divemaster candidate has logged about 70-80 dives in the Red Sea and he proclaims this beach dive to be the best ever he had.
On another occassion, while on an exploratory dive somewhere in one of the unnamed islands in the Philippines, I was informing a group of divers that the dive we're going to do might be a boring one. I've explored one side of that unnamed island and didn't find anything interesting at all. Anyway, we dove the other side and saw something like 7 stingrays before an eagle ray made it's magnificent entrance! It turned out to be one of the most memorable dive for this group of divers.
I have a lot of other memorable dives I can share with you. But wait, tell us your story!
On that particular day, we went out for a dive in Boracay's beach front. Shallow and gentle sandy slope going down to a maximum of 4 meters even if you've already swam 50m from the shore. A few rock formations here and there, some patches of seagrass as you reach 5m.
I figured this would be a good place to train someone with natural reference using sandy contour. While swimming, I accidentally found a small octopus... baby one and the head is just about half-centimeter big. After watching it for couple of minutes, I noticed a flounder not more than 1 meter away. The divemaster candidate and I continued to look at the baby octopus while the flounder worked it's way closer. Suddenly, without warning, that flounder devoured that poor baby octopus with our faces just inches away!
How many times have you actually seen any aquatic animal eating another one?
The divemaster candidate has logged about 70-80 dives in the Red Sea and he proclaims this beach dive to be the best ever he had.
On another occassion, while on an exploratory dive somewhere in one of the unnamed islands in the Philippines, I was informing a group of divers that the dive we're going to do might be a boring one. I've explored one side of that unnamed island and didn't find anything interesting at all. Anyway, we dove the other side and saw something like 7 stingrays before an eagle ray made it's magnificent entrance! It turned out to be one of the most memorable dive for this group of divers.
I have a lot of other memorable dives I can share with you. But wait, tell us your story!