two good dives, we were headed to fatboys for a beer before getting
back to town. On the way I spotted some dolphins, but Danny my boss,
said they might be whales. So we slow the boat and pull a few hundred
meters in front of them and kill the motors. I jumped in the water
with my mask and snorkel, and moments later about 12 pilot whales swam
underneath me, and started playing underwater and coming up to the
surface.
One of the coolest parts, was that following the whales were two
sharks. 1 a large reef shark, about 2 M, and the other an Oceanic
Silvertip Shark about 2.5 M. The silvertip was the exciting shark to
see, they are actually quite agressive and dangerous, but rare
thoughtout the world. They have white tips on their dorsal and
pectoral fins that seem to glow in a white triangle as they approach
you. I have not really had a fear of sharks, but I did just sit still
at the surface and tried to not move around to much as each shark
circled me to see what was going on then followed the whales again.
One customer did get a video at the surface, but we are trying to edit
it to the part with the whales but it is in some weird format and we
need a codec for it.
Luke
4 comments:
Good one Luke, though I don't mind if you take out all the sharks (just like that croc at Fatboys). Loving your blog - might catch you later in the year. (BTW - it's me, Nick Reese - helped you with that computer problem at Christmas :-)
Keep those stories coming we're enjoying every bit of them.
Wanna see more pics....
Anyways you do have a nice day Luke.
By Harold Maesulia, Suva, Fiji
wow what can I say,glad you are having so many adventures,God Bless
love mom
Lukes Mom: have a word with your son, he is living on a diet of candy bars and coke :-)
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