Location: Diving
We started the day off early at 5:30 a.m. As I woke everyone up, they moaned and groaned but got up quickly to be on time for our sunrise dive. Getting ready, we were a little apprehensive about the cold, but the excitement about the dive was stronger. In the water, by 6:00, when all the fish were still calm and unafraid of us, we all broke up into our buddy groups to test our navigation skills. Travis and I saw a big eagle ray, a tiny brittle star, a big nudibranch, and a weird spider-looking crab, among other things. The coral was awesome, and everything looked a little different, with the morning rays just starting to penetrate. After the awesome dive, we were surprised by a rescue scenario, and we had to save Maximus and Chris. This being our first “real” scenario, we messed up some stuff, but we learned from our mistakes and will do better the next time we are surprised by missing unconscious divers. We motored back to Port Vila and did another dive. We dove into a huge wreck that was 100 feet deep and saw some pretty crazy stuff. As we were descending, we saw some spadefish, and when we reached the wreck, we were surprised by tons of fish. A big school of jacks swam around us, and we saw a three-foot snapper. It was the best day of diving, in my opinion, and although we didn’t see any sharks in Vanuatu, our dawn dive and wreck dive made up for it.