Pelagicsal
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Good grief, Mary. Good to see you last night. Hope to see you again soon. Still night diving with us tomorrow night?
I Hurt Myself Today
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alohagal
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I took pictures of the teeter totter board so no one thinks I am making this stuff up!!
I went night diving tonight instead of cantina. I am frustrated over here!! Only getting in 45 to 52 minutes and still coming up with half the air I started with!! Need longer dives with same type of breathers as myself. DM's can't keep up! I miss you and Leslief.
I am going out to Maracaibo with supposedly more advanced people in the AM. Will see how that goes. I will have to do a wait and see on the night dive. I might want to do a DAY time trip with you all instead.
Bright spot: Night dive saw lots of critters!! That was worth it.
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Sallye,
I touched one of those snake eel things tonight. The DM freaked out. Told me on the boat that someone told him "They are deadly poisonous"
Also, sound the horn: The DM here found a lionfish and said he thinks they are beautiful and it is too late to get rid of them! Oh lordie! We found him on Punta Tunich on the twilight dive.
I asked him if he was going to report it: that is when he told me the above!!!
I touched one of those snake eel things tonight. The DM freaked out. Told me on the boat that someone told him "They are deadly poisonous"
Also, sound the horn: The DM here found a lionfish and said he thinks they are beautiful and it is too late to get rid of them! Oh lordie! We found him on Punta Tunich on the twilight dive.
I asked him if he was going to report it: that is when he told me the above!!!
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Mary, all I can say is that you handle the "face-plants" very well. You are a real trooper!
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Oh, now you have done it. While you have survived accidents that would have killed a lessor mortal....you may well have brought upon yourself a plague that will do you in.
You have admitted, in an open forum, that you touched something under the water. Now, you shall be smitten by those who dress their pets up like children and insist that the animal kingdom are not only delicate but also far more fragile than a human infant. Nevermind the environment they live in makes being touched by a human less than irrelevant. There are those who believe that the lightest of human touches can destroy entire populations and wreak irrevocable damage on ecosystems long after you have gone. You have flown in the face of these religious zealot's beliefs....and for that you shall be forever damned and burn in the fires of mother nature's revenge. A curse be upon you and....oh, uh... nevermind...in light of recent bad luck, that curse seems to already have been in affect. I have an exorcist standing by at DIA for the day you return. He will perform the procedure without your knowledge while you wait for your luggage....it is for your own good. We are also enrolling you in the "Animals are more fragile than Humans" rehab/reprogramming clinic for a 6 month reconditioning. Your first lesson will be on the devil spawn sea turtles who without any remorse whatsoever run rampant in our oceans eating the legally protected reef sponges.
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It was a sharptail eel, and they are not poisonous. Sea snakes, which sharptail eels resemble, are indeed venomous, but they are not native to Cozumel. Maybe we should import some; perhaps they would eat the lionfish.
Oh dear, should we revisit the "let's bring mongoose to St. Thomas to eat the snakes"? Snakes diurnal; mongoose nocturnal; now they have plenty of both.
Hate to hear that not all operations are doing their best to keep the numbers down. David came up with one off Barracuda today. #8 for him, and the first he's caught without my videoing it. I was in the other group.
He definitely has snagging them down to an art now. It's seconds... in the bag, on with the dive. Was interesting when he snagged two on one dive early in the week... and they did the rest of the dive with us.
Deadly sharptail eel. Yeah. OK...
Mary, if you pick up some details of where you see them (don't know if I could...) and let me know, we'll watch for them.
We are supposed to do Maracaibo, too, again tomorrow. What boat/operation and what time do you leave the dock?
There's room on the boat tonight, should you decide to come. Leslie isn't going.
Had a fin blowout today. Was it your luck rubbing off? The front of the foot pocket detached from the blade. The other one was starting to go, too. I lost about 3/4 of my kick power. Very aggravating!
I mean, what's the deal?!? They are only 18 years old and have 1700 dives on them. Think I am going to get loaned a pair of good fins and not have to buy new ones until after I get home.
Right now they are duct-taped together. Me and my ghetto fins, as they were called on the boat. Worked like always, though...
It's nap time I think.
:sleeping2:
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I meant to say the eel touched me! Yes...that's how it went.
Glad that human touching eel was not venomous like the DM thought!
Mary
Glad that human touching eel was not venomous like the DM thought!
Mary
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