Andrew and Brooke: Day 6- Second Dive Day!

Day 6- Blue Hole
So our second dive day was to do 3 dives, The Blue Hole, The Lighthouse Reef, and The Aquarium! It took about an hour and a half to go to the Blue Hole on boat. We were picked up when it was still dark outside. We saw dolphins on the way out there. We have a video of that, but I have decided to do videos in a separate post bc my computer cannot play videos so I have to go on my dad's computer to look through them and see which ones I will want to show. Any way. The Blue Hole use to be a cave, but it sank and it now completely underwater. It is suppose to be really cool if you can say you have dived in the Blue Hole. It is 400ft deep and I forget how wide, but it is HUGE! We went 130ft deep in this dive which is DEEP! Normally we went like 60 ft. Since it is so deep you run through your air pretty fast so it was a very short dive. It was pretty cool bc when we were going down we went soooo fast it took us like 30 seconds if that to get at 130ft. If you dive you know that when you go very deep you have a chance of getting Nitrogen Narcosis, which means you pretty much get high on the nitrogen bc your body cannot absorb it all. So what you do it ascend 5-10 ft and you should be ok. Well John, Christian, and Michelle got this. Michelle didnt like it so she went up with JD. john and christian did not really get what to do so they were just floating around being funny until eventually they got over it. Anyway while down there we saw a bull shark which was sooooo huge. We later read on wiki that Bull sharks are the ones who have killed the most humans. Scary!!

After the blue hole we went to our second dive, The Lighthouse Reef. This one was cool bc there was a lot to see.

Then we went to this really cool little island to eat lunch (the usual). Apparently they try to preserve this island so much that you cannot take anything from the island, not even the sand. You have to wash your feet in the water to get all the sand off of you before you get back on your boat. Also, this island had a really cool bird watching place. They were booby birds.

We then went on our final dive which was called the Aquarium! This was by far my favorite. It is called the Aquarium for obvious reasons. Fish EVERYWHERE! When I jumped in the water from the boat there were TONS of fish. It was pretty amazing.

I feel like I need to explain to everyone why most of the underwater pictures are not that colorful. Well depending on how deep you are depends on what colors you can see. Colors don't show when you are deep. The colorful pictures that we do have are because of the flash of the camera.

After the dives we headed back. We went to dinner at this really awesome restaurant. It was called the Blue Water Grill or something like that. I forget. It was Italian food and was really yummy!

Here are the pictures!

Me and andrew on the boat!