Diving day today! We are heading way East, farther than Michel and Julie have ever explored by boat. The sea was wicked calm today, so it was an easy ride there. We will be diving a wreck! I will be the first woman and youngest person to ever dive it! It is very unexplored so this is an amazing opportunity. Michel and I suited up and got ready for the dive. The boat that was wrecked was being pulled by a tugboat and the rope snapped and it sank on the reef. The exact same thing happened to another vessel, but most of that one is above water and left exposed.
We swam to the first exposed piece as Michel wanted to get a split shot. The visibility was pretty bad though, so I didn’t have much luck taking photos. We descended and explored a bit and made our way to the boilers. Half of the boilers were also sticking out of the water so I tried a split shot but didn’t have much success. Our dive was almost an hour long (but in shallow water) so we swam back to the boat. Julie also wanted to dive the wreck so I stayed in the water and explored with her. Past the wreck there were SO many sea urchins. They all had rocks or other shells covering them. It reminded me of what an octopus does to camouflage themself.
It was a long journey back by boat, but the weather was great and the water was still flat. We spotted a type of penguin, whale, and plenty of seals on the ride back.
We cleaned everything when we got back and inspected the props to make sure nothing was wrong. One of the pieces of the boat (like the sealed patch part) was coming off, so Michel and I worked to dry it so we could glue it back tomorrow. We had Pâté for dinner, and I tried duck and deer for the first time.