Another great day with diving...

When I woke up this morning at 5, I was a bit tired, admitted. I went to sleep very early, but yesterday's monster party was still a bit in the body. Not many divers found the way to the fun dive; there were basically only 3 divers (plus some Japanese). And we were only 3 persons 'employed'; normally, the morning dives have 30-40 divers including 'crew' etc. I guess many people decided to sleep longer after the heavy partying yesterday :-). I saw some of my colleagues and various 'frequent divers' at lunch, and they really looked bad :-). The reason why I did not take a day off like most others was of course to see if the whale was still at Chumpon. Unfortunately it was not, but we spotted a few sharks on the surface (but did not see any while diving). So another trainee and me went searching for the whale at Chumpon. We used the information from the group that found it yesterday, and we went quite far off the Pinnacle but no luck.
On the second dive, we visited 'White rock' and I almost - for the first time - got lost. And it was even with a Chinese customer :-). I was sure we were at the north buoy line when we entered, so I had some trouble in the beginning since the map in my head was not fitting at all. But I realised after some minutes (due to the deeper depth than it should be), so I got back on track - and the customer did not figure out that I was about to get us lost. The 'worst' thing that happens if you get lost is that you may see less cool stuff - and that you may need to swim for 10-15 minutes on the surface afterwards. Which customers usually do not like, but they usually accept it. The coolest thing is of course to get all the way back to the right boat, and come to the surface right in front of the ladders. The customers are always surprised how we can find the way back - and even to the right boat. Because if you do not have a compass, if you don't know how each buoy line look at the bottom and if you don't know how each of the boats look from beneath, then you very easily have no clue where you are. And I ended up surfacing 3 meters from the ladders of the boat today. Today I think I will go to bed even earlier; to catch up with some sleeping.
Today's photos are from when we were searching for the whale; we e.g. saw a group of very large trevally's hunting (and they are SO fast). I also love bubbles coming from divers underneath; sometimes you can even see see yourself and almost everything above in the cool reflection they give. And the next image is a rare image of me, myself and I :-). The last photo is of the other trainee I was looking for the whale with, Nina, wiping her eyes and being sad since we did not find the whale.