Was woken up by an already awake and
getting dressed Jon, as he had been asleep since 8 o'clock. Johanna
and me where still in bed, so his solution was to rip open the
curtains and let the sun stream right in to our faces. Got up,
dressed and went to breakfast. Had to find Jon, who had reserved us a
table and then had some eggs on toast.
After breakfast back to our
accommodation to get prepared for diving. Carried all my gear over to
the Extra Divers base and then geared up for the first dive. Got our
Nitrox bottles and fixed all our air devices to it. Had our briefing
from Santo and then proceeded to the yeti. Got the stuff on and then
did our buddy check before jumping in to the water. Dived down to a
diving platform at five meters depth and did a check up (if we can
blow out our mask underwater). Had the GoPro on my head to film the
first dive, so I was checking that the bubbles don't obscure the
screen to much. After the check, where Jon and I got some extra
weight, we started diving along the coral reef. Saw a bunch of really
colourful fish (to be expected in the red sea) and the highlight of
the dive was seeing a pair of clown fish with their baby (Nemo?) in
their home, a red anemone. Was at 100 bars at that point, so it was
time to turn round and head back. Saw some weird snorkel fish which
none could identify. Reaching the yeti there where dozens of people
in the water around it. Navigating through the people we reached the
yeti and then proceeded back to the base to wash our gear.
It unfortunately turned out that the
housing of the GoPro wasn't as waterproof as the builders of it had
said it would be. Salt water had run all over into the housing and
soaked right in to the GoPro. Built it apart and left it to dry
whilst writing the dive log and hope it will work by tomorrow.
Had lunch shortly after that, lots of
lasagne with a beef burger and some desert which tasted good. Back to
diving after that, this time to the Woodhouse Reef with Salah and
some other German speaking people. Drove out with a Zodiac, jumping
from wave to wave and racing two other speed boats. Reached the dive
site and all did a backwards dive in at the same time, so we wouldn't
knock ourselves out. Shot down toward the ground, but as we where
diving along a cliff side we stopped at 18 meters. Johanna being my
buddy we checked the other person and then proceeded along the reef.
The highlight of the journey was a
murrain eel, slithering through the reef and a sea turtle feeding (or
something like that). Nearly backed in to the reef at one point but
had an early warning buddy system, Johanna warning me before I
impacted. My air nearly ran out at one point so I was hooked up to
Salah for nearly the rest of the journey. Carried on along the cliff
and saw lots of different inhabitants of the reef. Safety stop at
five meters and then on to the boot. Proofed to be a challenge to get
the weights and gear of and then getting on to the Zodiac. Sped back
to the hotel, Jon taking a film with his new GPS video camera.
Cleaned everything an then wrote the log book with Salah and
Mohammed. Back to the accommodation to write the blog and then to
dinner.
Diving time: 108 minutes
Diving depth: 18 meters
Speciality: Murrain ell swimming and a
giant sea turtle, ran out of air early
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