Last night Simon and I went for a night dive off the back of the boat. Fortunately I had a couple of working dive lights which worked well. Diving at night is a very different experience. What you see is limited to the area lit by your torch (flashlight). Everything else is dark. Navigation depends a lot more on your compass as it is hard to know where you are by looking at individual rocks – which look different depending on what angle you look at them from.<\/p>\n

The marine life at night is quite different. The parrot fish are covered in self-excreted mucous and sleeping on the bottom. The trumpet fish are asleep and pretending to be reeds. We came across a squid, twice the size of my fist, asleep in the water. I was able to touch it. Lit by our torches it was iridescent.<\/p>\n

After 40 minutes we were both cold so we surfaced right by the boat. We surfaced to a brilliant night sky full of stars. A couple of shots of rum warmed us up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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