Shout out to my roommate Greg for being my alarm once again as I woke up at 7:20 this morning. With the boat leaving at 7:45, you already know the rushed routine I went through to catch up and get ready. I especially didn’t want to miss the dives today as there was another pipeline to explore. After a short ride and brief, we were able to get in the water. The pipeline we were going to explore was right under the mooring buoy but it started at around fifty feet under the water. I have to admit I was pretty scared about this pipeline as I had the obvious fear of getting stuck and hitting my head on a jagged rock. I also had a fear of the pipeline to be very narrow as I heard it would be smaller than the one from yesterday. I decided when am I ever going to do this again and just followed everybody else in and thankfully everything went fine and I cruised out the other end. I didn’t see much below me so I decided to take s gander above and was greeted by a school of about 20 Jack Crevalle swimming together in a v formation. I was astonished by this as the formation started had the top of the v leading, more like a check mark, unlike the usual alpha leading the whole school. We then surfaced and headed to the other dive site where we were greeted by some current. This ended up shortening our dive as we would have to us more air due to the constant battle to keep up with the dive master. Early in this dive, a turtle greeted all of us as it cruised with ease in the current. He didn’t stay long but a pair of three foot barracudas came over to check us out. One allowed me to swim along with it and I got a very cool view straight behind it. I was able to see how it uses it’s whole body to swim unlike other fish who use just their fins. This makes sense on how there able to reach speeds of twenty seven miles per hour as it utilizes every part of it slender body it can. After swimming with the barracudas, we had to go back to the boat and get back for lunch. This ended our day as there weren’t any other scheduled activities so I took a five hour nap. I was exhausted from our rigorous dive routine but now I am ready to take on the two tank dive both located on sunken ships tomorrow morning.
