My buddy's thousandth dive
On October 30, 2011 the day has come that my buddy and I were able to celebrate his thousandth dive. It took some planning because on October 11 his dive counter showed 994 when he started a Search and Recovery specialty which would take 4 dives and he had 2 dives planned for a coral spawning study. I had to work. He completed his specialty but he decided to skip the second of the two coral spawning dives so the counter stopped at 999 on October 17. It took almost 2 weeks before we were able to plan the celebration dive together. We went to Porto Marie for this dive.
For some time I had heard about a Seahorse at Vaersenbay but I was never able to take a closer look. This Saturday I went with a student for her third dive in the Open Water course. I knew exactly where the seahorse was located but it still took some time to actually see it. It is a small seahorse and it is attached to some soft coral but on the inside of a small bush. So it is not easily visible; I went back later that day with my camera and it took me quite some effort to take a good picture of it.
