10/18/12
We met up at the boat again around 8:15 this morning. Our first dive site of the day was the Iro Miru, a large Japanese freighter hauling gas and supplies that was blown up in World War II. A lot of the guys in the group wanted to dive a wreck and this is one of the best ones in the area to dive. Visibility was actually pretty good today for this particular site. We started at the bow and made our way down the top of the ship, swimming through the engine room and the crane operators room, etc. There are tons of coral and clams and anemones covering the surface of the ship after all these years.
Our next dive site was Ngerchong inside. This was a very nice, easy, fairly shallow dive with very little current and lots of little critters. There was a large coral head with glass fish and an eel living underneath. There were also cleaner shrimp, garden eels, gobies, etc., but the highlight of the dive were the cuttlefish. I took a lot of video and Eric got some really good pictures. They make nice subjects because they usually stay in one spot.
After our dive we got back on the boat and headed to a nice sandy beach for lunch. We spent quite a bit of time hanging out after lunch, waiting for the current to be right so we could go and dive German Channel again. When conditions looked good we headed out for German Channel. We ended up diving between the change of the currents, which was not great but gave us a fair chance of seeing something good. We actually did end up seeing a one manta and there were tons of schooling fish and of course sharks.
After this dive we headed back to the dive shop/hotel. We all got cleaned up and then met up over at The Drop Off for dinner and so everyone could compare and share their photos from the day. Several people were pretty tired so they headed off to bed early. We are meeting at 8 a.m. tomorrow so we can see if we can hit the current right at Ulong Channel.
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