We had beautiful sunrises to go with the beautiful weather all week. The only bad part was how many days we were up to see the sunrises.David positioned himself with a shark in the background, but it was a bit too far away to get a good picture.Divemaster Boy Joe gives us the briefign for tonight’s dive while divemeaster Girl Jo helps with the map.I managed to get a quick shot of this shark between my fins as he swam under me on the wall.Another shot of the reef shark swimming over the shallow sand flats.This reef shark is heading from the wall into the sand flats.This is a nurse shark that was swimming right past me. Just as I took the picture, she snapped her head to the right and looked straight at me, Christie Brinkley style. “Now give me SEXY SHARK!”This was about as close as I got to a shark. I didn’t see this one coming until just before he swam into my viewfinder. He was probably about 3 feet away at the time.Another stingray with a hanger-on who’s looking for a an easy meal. They looked swimmign along over the bottom together.I managed to get this picture just before he lunged for my throat.The propellers of the Turks & Caicos Explorer II. Also a school of shade-loving. fishI like the coloring of these giant anemones. Just don’t touch.TOday’s Flamingo Tongue for Steve C.Going by growth rate estimates, this huge brain coral several hundred years old, and still growing. Take that, Al Gore.Why is Barbie underwater with lead weights tied to her feet? Maybe the first question is, “Why is Barbie dressed like a value-priced working girl?”. Or maybe we could just ask Bob S what he knows about this – but something tells me he’s not talking.A French Angelfish, the cousin of the queen.This is more garden eels than I’ve ever seen in one place before.A Queen Angelfish shims undersome bright sponges.I got a picture of this cowfish just as he was saying, “Mooo…”The sun deck wasn’t always this empty, but today Nic had it all to himself.This is the control panel of the machine that makes the minty fresh nitrox for our tanks.Bob S is always on the lookout for potential danger. Or maybe he’s envisioning the future. Or he might just be staring off into space while waiting for his brain to unlock.Bob M watches Steve C check his computer manual while David logs his nitrox analysis.Steve C on the pirate dive. The tutu has to do with a strange convergence of dive themes. The Dispensibles’ pirate dive coincided with the crew’s tutu dive, resulting in the first ever Pirate Tutu Dive.This is Calum on the pirate dive. Parrots don’t do well under water, so Calum carries a duck on his shoulder. Unfortunately, Calum over-estimated the lung capacity of the duck.Calum found himself much closer to the same shark as David. We’ll all miss Calum.This old guy swam right through our group. You could almost hear him grumbling about the decline of the neighborhood.Here is the gnome after whom the gulley is named. He’s sitting in about 97 feet of water, which is the deepest I went all week.Later, Kris briefed us prior to our dive in “Gnome Gulley”. Coincidentally aligning with The Dispensibles’ 5th guiding value, Kris always dresses appropriately.Divemaster Kris wore his elephant outfit for his briefing on the site called “Elephant Ear Canyon”. Here, he demonstrates his sign for elephant ear coral.
