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Dive #8: Castle Rock, Komodo, Indonesia

• Time: 56 minutes
• Max depth: 24 meters
• Temperature: 27 degrees Celsius
• Visibility: 15 meters
• Current: light
• Slope coral
• Fish, etc.: Black Tip Shark, White Tip Shark, Sand Eel (Anguille de Sable in French; it's blue and yellow), Trigger Fish, Surgeon Fish, Demoiselle, Lion Fish, Box Fish.

We returned to Castle Rock for a second dive. It's the best dive we've done, even the second time.

I saw a blue-and-yellow eel eat a little fish. He protruded from his hole with his mouth agape and floated around looking for prey. He snapped up a little fish and retreated into his hole. His head looks like some fish I've seen, so maybe his victims think he's a fish.

A five-foot shark circled within 15 feet of us. It was exciting, not scary, because I've seen that type of shark before and it's shy.

posted by Li at 3:59 AM