When the two new divers on our boat were asked where they wanted to go this morning, they rolled their eyes in boredom and arrogantly uttered, "It would be nice to do something new, we are so tired of all the old places". We should have known right there and then that we should not go to Punta Sur Sur with them, but Aldora is a very client-oriented shop, plus somehow you are always tempted to challenge the diving textbooks wisdom "If a diver displays arrogance on the surface, they are very likely to display sub-optimal skills underwater". And so we went to Punta Sur Sur... to confirm, once again, that diving textbooks' authors know exactly what they are talking about. But despite of that the dives today were FUN, FUN, FUN!
Dive #1 - Punta Sur Sur - Was there or wasn't there an eel?
Crime scene: a lion fish killed by Javier mysteriously dissapeared back into the fish hole where it came from.
Witnesses: 5 divers (including the videographer Sallye) hanging behind the fish hole. 1 diver - yours truly - in the front row seat, looking directly at the fish hole.
Summary of events according to Javier: He killed the fish, and then an eel jumped out of the hole and snapped at Javier's finger first and then grabbed the lion fish and disappeared back into the hole.
When we discussed the incident back on the boat, a strange and disturbing fact emerged - NOBODY saw any eel! We all saw Javier trying to kill the fish, but after a short and vigorous struggle it got away. There was NO eel! Javier insisted on its existence and involvement in the whole lion fish murder mystery though. His only chance to convince us was Sallye's video, but we decided that in the spirit of the ongoing Soccer World Cup we would allow no instant replays...
Dive #2 - La Francesa - THIS is eel!
Two minutes into the dive I saw a HUGE green moray eel swimming ever elegantly into the blue. A gorgeous creature! I grabbed at Javier's fin to get his attention and wrote on his slate, "THIS is eel!" Of course, when he saw it, he immediately shrugged his shoulders and raised his eyebrows to respond: "What are you trying to show me? I see nothing!" Sallye played along and then everybody pretended that they didn't see the eel. Fine! Whatever!:)
Post Diving - (Almost) Instant Replay
A couple of hours after the dive, the witnesses of Javier's underwater hallucinations, received an email from Sallye, rehabilitating his sanity. There sooooo was an eel in that hole! I have no clue how all of us could miss it!!!
Although... as far as I'm concerned, Sallye could have easily Photoshopped the eel into her video. Now I understand why they are against instant replays during the World Cup. Makes perfect sense.
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