Fish scale glitter... 1st night dive.

Continuing my dive trip extravaganza, without doing my advanced license I was able to do 2 night dives.. Yip...eee?

My initial reaction was somewhat mixed. Dark, in the deep.. And a meter vision with a torch to flash in the mouth of an hungry hammerhead...Once in I began to realize that a whole new set of critters come out at night..

The dive brief told us not to shine the torch for too long on an unsuspecting reef minnow, as the bigger reef fishes like snapper and wrasse's and not forgetting the sharks have educated themselves on divers shining torches on there next dinner without the hassle of searching for them in the dark themselves.

There I was signaling to my dive buddy how the beautiful coral pollups are in the night, and accidentally high lighting an unsuspecting damsel. Now I know why they are called damsel, beady eyeing me for a millisecond I could almost read his tiny fish brain thoughts... "oh no you didnttttttttttt ahhhhhgghhhhhhhhhhhhhh" faster than bolt out of the blocks a school of barracuda space invadered him and I was left in a shower of fish scale glitter. Damsel was in distress.

R.I.P Blue damsel.