Today was a great day of diving – and fortunately, we actually got to dive! We got about 10 minutes into our hour boat ride when one of the engines started making a strange noise. After about 15 minutes of tinkering, we were on our way once again.

Our first dive was at Blue Holes. It was truly an awesome dive – by far one of my favorites so far. We started on a wall and swam till there was a large cutout. We swam into a cylindrical-shaped tube of coral walls. This wasn’t anything like the holes we’ve been in in the Bahamas, but definitely interesting. The coolest parts about the Blue Holes were the various caverns and caves that shot off from the base of the hole. Scott and I entered one of the caves briefly and it appeared to go for a long time. Off course we hadn’t planned on doing a cave dive so we turned around and headed back out, but it was really amazing.

From the center of the hole, we swam around and back out to the wall where we drifted for another 25 minutes or so where we saw several white tip and black tip sharks, a couple large wrasse, a black fin tuna, a bunch of turtles and an abundant number of reef fish.

After a leisurely lunch and a dip in the ocean, we were all back on the boat for our second dive. We had asked to do a wreck this afternoon, so they took us to the Chuyo Maru. A Japanese supply ship, the Chuyo Maru was sunk during World War II and is sitting upright in the water. It has a ton of growth on it and a large amount of sea life. We penetrated a portion of the wreck but saw nothing of consequence. The water was fairly murky and the potential for a silt-out was great, but it was still a great wreck. We saw a lionfish and spent a great deal of time looking for a large frogfish that apparently hangs out at the mooring line.