So this is the famous Seaventure oilrig that you have seen in all the advertisement pictures. Here it is:
Not surprisingly, the bottom beneath the rig is totally covered in all kind of junk varying from scrapmetal to barrels, tools, pieces of wood, boats, toilets, and all kind of imaginable junk. The barrels are not oil though since oil was never drilled here but the rig was towed from elsewhere.
Once again the metal structures provice good shelter for big fish, and there are loads. We encountered an enormous school of jacks, a school of trumpetmouths, and witnessed a pair of trumpetmouths doing not exactly sure what, but putting up a show including cheeck to cheeck swimming, "swordfighting" with their long mouths, and just dancing around for quite some time. Whether mating or friendly (?) fighting, it was an amusing show to watch.
Other more typical sights included two large crocodilefish who seem to be attracted to junk metal - remember the wreck of Coron Bay in the Philippines, where crocodilefish is often found. And again good sized potato cods and sweetlips and a lot of other variety of BIG fish. Which of course is nice since the reputation of Mabul and Kapalai rely heavily on its muck sightings. (Which as I was to found out, were quite amazing indeed!)
Was diving with an autralian older dude, a familyman with his family, who had some issues controlling his boyancy and eventually had a nice head kick from him in the 18 meters depth. It wasn't a gentle push but a reckless kick and I needed a good moment or two to recover. Quite unexpected. I let him live and moved on.
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