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Unplanned encounter. This is how one pilot guest said goodbye to Small Hope Bay.
The Bahamas must have mellowed me because my more typical reaction would have been to dive flat on the deck.

I was walking out to the dive center when I heard a drone to my right. I glanced right and saw the plane 'coming straight at me'. My mind jumped into high gear and everything went into slow motion. Thoughts that ran through my mind:

It must be .. from last night... he was leaving today;
It looks like I am being attacked by a Zero in a Pearl Harbor reenactment;
Do I have to do anything to avoid being hit?;
Nope he is going to miss me;
Camera!

Then time jumped to fast mode and I managed to get some serendipitous photos.
To get a sense of actual distance, the camera lens was at a wide angle, 25 mm, equivalent.Read more