2nd Nov 2012

Another early morning! Weather seems better today and the sea was much calmer- much to Ben's relief!

Sail rock again, out first dive was our deep dive- went to 29metres today- was quite dark and murky down there! Then back shallower, looking at the fish and bull sharks again - saw two together and then one taking a chunk out of a fish!

Then a rest in the boat and a very early lunch and back into the water, this was more of a fun dive as Autumn (the American girl in our group) was learning to use the camera and we had already done our boat diving theory.

This time we saw a moray eel. Then the scariest thing happened- we had seen a bull shark swim past us quite close- it was about 4 metres long and then it turned and started swimming straight towards me and Ben- both of us were so scared- I think my heart stopped! I grabbed Ben's arm and then strangely we both started to calmly swim upwards and it swam underneath us!! It was very close- within 2 metres, the instructor thought our reaction was funny! But he did say the shark was obviously inquisitive about us, and that is an amazing experience that not many divers have- agree but never want that experience again, thank you!!

We had one more dive after this but back in the harbour- navigation using compasses. The visibility was awful, less than 1m, so was scary as would lose one and another easily and end up having to surface to find each other but we did it.

We are now certified advanced PADI divers!

Very tired after all that diving so early night!Read more