Malapascua Day 6
Today we got up around 6:30 and Eric got the cameras ready
and we headed to breakfast a little after 7.
By now you can probably guess what breakfast consisted of…
We were scheduled to leave at 9 am for a day trip to Gato
island for two dives with lunch in between.
Gato island is about a 45+ minute ride from Malapascua. After we got in the water it was a slow
start, but then we saw quite a bit of stuff—a flamboyant cuttlefish, a
frogfish, sea snake, among many others.
This dive was rather interesting. About half way through the dive we were all
in a larger group in one area when I looked over and saw one of the dive group
with no regulator in his mouth, kneeling down on the sand, attempting to reach
back to his tank. He looked very calm,
so I was not sure what he was doing. One
of the other members of our group (diving with double tanks, as she had just
finished a tech diving class) who was a bit closer noticed this as well. When she approached him, he gave the out-of-air
sign and she gave him her regulator.
Apparently his tank had not gotten turned on all the way and worked fine
until he got to a certain depth and then due to the pressure it could not
provide any more air. The dive guide
came over and made sure his tank was turned on and then his pressure went from
0 back up to 2000. He went back to
breathing off his tank and continued his dive.
I think we were all a bit shocked.
He was so calm we all thought he was kidding—but obviously not.
After the first dive, we got back on the boat and had a
surface interval of about an hour and half, during which time we all had
lunch. The second dive was also at Gato
Island, but on a different side of the island.
The dive started by entering an underwater tunnel, which went all the
way through to the other side of the island.
This dive we saw Harlequin shrimp, frogfish, huge crabs, eel, ocellaris
clownfish, another sea snake, sharks, and various macro shrimp, etc.
After two good dives, we headed back to the resort. We got back around 3 o’clock and headed to our
room to get cleaned up and check out our video and pictures from yesterday and
today. Then we headed to the restaurant
to have some dinner so we could get to bed early for the shark dive again
tomorrow morning. Prior to turning in
for the night we played a round of “worms” with the two couples we had met from
Oregon. After the game was over we
wished the well as they would be leaving tomorrow morning and we would be out
on the shark dive early in the morning.
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