Adventures in Scuba

I realised I haven´t mentioned anything about all the diving I´ve been doing, so here´s a summary.

I didn´t take any of the pics I´m afraid, but they´re all of the right species or from the same dive site.

MEXICO

I couldn´t remember anything about the equipment, but being under water is like riding a bike to me, it comes back real quick.

I was diving with noobies on the team tho, so the comparison was bound to make me look good...



Saw a nurse shark, and loads of massive turtles, which are so chill, you just swim right by them, and drift along for a while...


BELIZE

The Blue Hole is a legendary trophy dive, and wasn´t cheap, and the dive masters were completely unprofessional.
You´re not supposed to dive below 20 metres as an entry level diver, and this dive was 40m... and they didn´t even ask about it!

It was like a 2 stage dive, first stop around 20m, then onto the 40m.
The second I got in the water I saw nothing but sharks; nurse sharks and reef sharks.

We descended to the 40m, which we can only stay at for about 8 mins, and once my eyes adjusted to the light, you could make out the creepy stalectites in the caves down there.



We ascended again for the 5 min safety stop, and were surrounded by the sharks again.
Quite intimidating when they head straight for you, believe!


HONDURAS


I did like seven dives in Honduras, including two night dives, which are awesome...
The torch lights cut through the darkness like scenes from a movie, and the whole thing has a kind of cinematic feel... I saw an octopus, which changed colours from orangey red to vibrant blue, a lobster, a hermit crab, shrimp...

We sat on the bottom and turned off the lights, and there were so many fish they were literally bumping into us in the dark, and we could see the phosphoresence sparkling like crazy fireworks in the water, and then we surfaced to have them replaced by the stars, real clear and vivid... and we swam back to the boat, feeling like we´d seen something fucking magic.


I also saw some Speckled eagle rays (see the pic), which are so smooth and graceful in the water, I would have done anything to followém, no matter how deep they went, or for how long...

So there you go. If I do any more, I´ll add em to this post... apparently you can dive the panama canal, which might be cool! We´ll see...