Day 26: First Night Dive

Vela Luka, Croatia

I had a 15-hour workday, which went somewhat like this:

• arrived at the dive center at 7:30am
• brought the chairs, tables, benches, buckets to the outside of the dive center
• helped with loading the boat equipments
• get suited up
• helped loading the divers’ tanks and gears
• listened to the dive briefing
• set out to the dive sites
• manned the boat when divers are diving
• unloaded the boat back at the dive center
• ate lunch during the 45-min break
• set up my own dive gear
• get suited up
• dived with the instructor andy and observed during an open water course with student divers
• checked in new divers and sorted out their equipments
• ate dinner during a half hour break
• set up own dive gear again
• get suited up again in an already wet and cold dive suits
• helped loading the boat
• did my first night dive
• unloaded the boat again at the dive center
• brought the chairs, tables, benches, buckets back into the dive center
• left the dive center at 10:45pm

I had no idea how I survived!

The night dive was so much fun! It was pitch dark safe for the torches that the divers were carrying. There’s a certain calming effect being in the water at night. Ascending from the water, our dive leader Tihana told us to turn off our torches and look into the water with our mask and snorkel on. If we moved our hands about in the water, there are these glowing planktons all over! Apparently, these planktons gathered the sunlight during daytime and when disturbed at night, they glowed. They’re like fireflies, only slightly smaller and much denser.

I don’t have pictures of them though, but here are some photos that I do have:

Croatian phrase of the day:

Vidimo se kasnije! =  See you later!