A three dive daytrip inc Hilutungan island, Talima and Tambuli off Mactan. Good stuff. A crazy old French fart called Bernard spotted a good sized octapus who soon escaped into a small hole. Bernard just sticks his hand into the black and tries to grap the poor creature, without gloves etc. Eventually he pulls the whole octapus out of its cave...
During the process my regu gets tangles with his ascend flag system so when he takes off, my regu is pulled off from my mouth with quite a force. Interesting!
Dive goes on, lots of "lapu-lapu"s, (groupers), sweetelips occupy the area. A giant triggerfish totally snaps and starts to charge on me some viscious attacks. Kicking it away it keeps on launching until it sees the next diver as an easier victim or a bigger threat to her eggs. Some serious underwater bouncing taking place, its hilarious to see a 40cm creature causing so much havoc in fully grown men.
But yeah, so much talk about triggerfish attacks and never really seen one, so it was an educating experience. Lesson: do not mess with a triggerfish, she will fcuk you up.
Funnily the aggression seemed to have spread among other fish, since after exiting from the triggerfish range, a small black usually harmless reef fish launches and bites my hand. Totally hilarious!
Good dives overall. Stingrays, nudey branches, lionfish, boxer shrimps, sweetlips, groupers, octapus, trumpetmouths, reef fish, all about 27-30meter depth range 45-55min each` using nitrox EANx33, EANx35 / reg air.
Talima has a small shipwreck, Tambuli has an artificial airplane wreck.
Dives with MSDC
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