“Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.” – Miriam Beard

Friday, June 29, 2012

Coral View Shark dive Fiji

Being in Fiji knowing that the reality of us being able to come back here and wanting to stay in the accommodations we were staying in was pretty unlikely, I personally enjoy not sleeping under mosquito nets with 60 other people in the same cabin. SO we decided what better way to throw caution to the wind than to go on a shark dive! Ok, their equipment is not exactly new and theres a chance to see hammerheads of course we are going!! We sign up and I get my camera ready and soon we were off on the boat to the shark location. Our Dive master explains the dive to us and what we will be doing once we descend to the bottom. Heres the overview we are boating off into the open ocean drop anchor roll backwards off the boat in the middle of nowhere descend 10 meters to a reef outcrop in shark infested waters, hold onto a rope and watch as the dive master throws bait into the water in front of us... one word AWESOME!! Here it goes!!! So we all survived the dive! Had a touch and go moment as one o the Black Tip Reef Sharks snagged some bait and sailed inches over the top of our heads! I think I used half my Oxygen during that 30 seconds! We had so much fun on the dive we decided to schedule a night dive for that same night! We went back to our bungalow to change and head to sun bathe for the rest of the day. At dinner we couldn't wait to get back in the water. All of us were a little nervous to do the night dive, no one had done one before. We met up with our Dive Master at around 9:00PM but who actually knows its always Fiji time. We went over the plan for the dive, we would be doing a beach dive, which just means walking into the water until you have to go under, go out for a while go down to the bottom and turn off our lights and let our eyes adjust! Hold on he just said we are going to go to the bottom turn off our lights and just chill there...we just did a dive were we saw at LEAST 60 sharks, I know enough about the ocean to know that um the nocturnal fish are a lot scarier! Now that we are all slightly more nervous we get our gear and head out. What a dive! My flashlight stopped working half way through the dive we actually lost Steph at one point, found her on the surface! Saw a parrotfish sleeping in a bubble, saw lionfish and blue sea stars. The current was unruly coming back in and we kept getting knocked all over the coral. It was interesting for sure, and we had nice cold showers to look forward too! HAHA it might be some time and a different country that I do a night dive again, but so glad that we had the chance to make some more unforgettable memories!

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