Our third dive was diving the shipwreak the Oro Verde. But before we did our full decent, we practiced CESA, an emergency ascent technique. Below you see me practicing and Kevin tagging along.
Once at the bottom (60 ft down), we practiced some more of our diving skills. Here I am practicing the fin pivot (floating just above the surface while controling height with your breathe).
We found a bike at the bottom of the ocean. So, of course people had to ride it. Chris riding the bike.
We saw a ton of sea life on this dive. This picture is of a spotted moray eel, a random little fishy I don't know the name of, and an arrow crab you can barely see in the top right hand corner. Kevin had tried to get me to hold an arrow crab on our very first dive and I thought it looked a little too much like a spider to be holding!
We found a bike at the bottom of the ocean. So, of course people had to ride it. Chris riding the bike.
We saw a ton of sea life on this dive. This picture is of a spotted moray eel, a random little fishy I don't know the name of, and an arrow crab you can barely see in the top right hand corner. Kevin had tried to get me to hold an arrow crab on our very first dive and I thought it looked a little too much like a spider to be holding!
We also found a green moray eel hanging out under some of the old wreakage from the ship.
A barracuda followed us around on most of the dive. He keep his distance and didn't justify any real threat to us, but he looked awfully scary! Look at those big teeth! That is Mel & I in the background.
Here is Chris with the barracuda :)
We also saw a nurse shark on this dive. It's quite interesting when you look at your dive master and he is doing the fin sign on the top of his head. But not to worry, even though they are 5-6 feet long, he wasn't really a threat to any of us either.
Our second dive was Eagle's Nest. On this dive we practiced the last few skills and worked on our buoyancy. We also went to the edge of the reef wall to experince the edge of the deep blue. Here are Kevin & Chris diving the wall.
This is a picture of me from above. Below you can kinda see how the wall just drops off.
We also had another sea turtle swim right by us. Below the turtle and a gray angelfish are eating.
A barracuda followed us around on most of the dive. He keep his distance and didn't justify any real threat to us, but he looked awfully scary! Look at those big teeth! That is Mel & I in the background.
Here is Chris with the barracuda :)
We also saw a nurse shark on this dive. It's quite interesting when you look at your dive master and he is doing the fin sign on the top of his head. But not to worry, even though they are 5-6 feet long, he wasn't really a threat to any of us either.
Our second dive was Eagle's Nest. On this dive we practiced the last few skills and worked on our buoyancy. We also went to the edge of the reef wall to experince the edge of the deep blue. Here are Kevin & Chris diving the wall.
This is a picture of me from above. Below you can kinda see how the wall just drops off.
We also had another sea turtle swim right by us. Below the turtle and a gray angelfish are eating.
And that is the end of our diving adventures on this trip. :(
That afternoon we went to Stingray City Sandbar in the north sound of Grand Cayman. The water is only waist deep and the stingray's swim right up to you. It's pretty neat.
This is Big Chris (our tour/boat guide) showing us a Stingray. He was showing us the mouth. There are no teeth, the just kinda suck their food up. All the dark spots in the water around him are also Stingrays.
Big Chris helped us hold the stingrays. Always hold them stinger-side away. They have a very different texture, it's not really something I can describe.
Chris pretended he was smooching the stingray.
The stingrays decided that Chris' front tie strings on his swimtrunks looked like the calamari they were being fed. They keep swiming right up the him and he kept having to push them away. When he got out of the boat, he realized his strings were completely untied and that's what the stingrays were after. In this picture I caught one of the stingrays trying the eat his shorts :)
We visited the sandbar during one of the very rare moments when we were the only boat on the sandbar. In this pic, we are the only people on the whole sandbar.... it makes me happy! You can see in the background/horizon where the water changes color is where the reef drops off.
After we were done on the sandbar, we drove to a location just 100 yards away to snorkel by some of the shallow reef formations. Both Chris and I decided scuba is 100 million times better than snorkeling. For a moment Chris thought he was still a scuba diver, jumped off the boat into the water and took a deep breathe underwater. He came up spitting out water. Oops! Here his is snorkeling.
And here I am snorkeling. You can see just how shallow it was there.
Here we are after our snorkeling enjoying the warm weather.
We hung out at our hotel for the rest of the night. There was a sushi restaurant on the bottom floor of our hotel we decided to try. I had the Philly rolls and Chris had the California rolls. We both really liked it!
Big Chris helped us hold the stingrays. Always hold them stinger-side away. They have a very different texture, it's not really something I can describe.
Chris pretended he was smooching the stingray.
The stingrays decided that Chris' front tie strings on his swimtrunks looked like the calamari they were being fed. They keep swiming right up the him and he kept having to push them away. When he got out of the boat, he realized his strings were completely untied and that's what the stingrays were after. In this picture I caught one of the stingrays trying the eat his shorts :)
We visited the sandbar during one of the very rare moments when we were the only boat on the sandbar. In this pic, we are the only people on the whole sandbar.... it makes me happy! You can see in the background/horizon where the water changes color is where the reef drops off.
After we were done on the sandbar, we drove to a location just 100 yards away to snorkel by some of the shallow reef formations. Both Chris and I decided scuba is 100 million times better than snorkeling. For a moment Chris thought he was still a scuba diver, jumped off the boat into the water and took a deep breathe underwater. He came up spitting out water. Oops! Here his is snorkeling.
And here I am snorkeling. You can see just how shallow it was there.
Here we are after our snorkeling enjoying the warm weather.
We hung out at our hotel for the rest of the night. There was a sushi restaurant on the bottom floor of our hotel we decided to try. I had the Philly rolls and Chris had the California rolls. We both really liked it!
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