It’s the last time before exams, I promise!
Sunday, August 28th, 2005 at 7:33 pm
Damn the dive shop. They had to send me an email that they were doing interesting dive sites this weekend, which of course obliged me to go. But this is the last time before the first exams (in 2 weeks), I promise! But I had to go today, since they were doing a "new" site, and a site that I hadn't done before.
The first dive was to the HEMA I, which is a shipwreck that I first dove in March, only two weeks after it sunk. At that time, the ship was still fully intact, rocking on the ocean floor, and kicking up sand. The passage of Hurricane Emily caused the ship to break apart, hence it is a "new" dive site. It now has a bunch of swim throughs and interesting holes to peer in. Not much in the way of interesting fish life, with the exception of a few barracuda, and a reef shark that reportedly swam behind my buddy and I unbeknown to us. (We were looking in the cargo hold.) I was definitely cool to see the before and after, and as an added bonus we did manage to salvage a bottle of Absolut Limon. 
The second dive site was Lighthouse Reef, which the one to which I had never been before. It was a nice site - not as much colorful coral as on the other side of the island, but plenty of fish life. We saw moray eels, lobsters, a turtle, and a nurse shark that started charging towards the Divemaster, after we cornered it against some reef wall. Luckily he had his hands in, and the shark veered off before collision. The rest of the dive was less exciting, yet still filled with colorful reef fish.
I also did three dives a couple of weeks ago (when I didn't have time to log them or to post) to King Mitch, Grand Canyon (a site I had also never done before), and ???. So how do you know you do too much diving? You can't even remember where you've been. Anyways, King Mitch was the same as previously. Grand Canyon was cool, complete with another new wreck (45ft sailboat) courtesy of Hurricane Ivan. And I really can't remember the third dive, but I think it was nice.
Well, it's time to get back to the books…
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