Dive #155 - Rich Torkington's Dive Log

Maybe I'll name him Fluffy.
Videograph by Rich Torkington in Bahamas 2003

Dive Journal: Neither Linda, Janel or Johnny want to dive the 4th dive of the day at Flat Rock. Everyone, however, is planning to do the dive here tonight, and it is always good if one of us has visited the site in daylight first. Dangit – guess I’ll just have to be the martyr.

Only 3 or so divers are going this afternoon, and so I make sure the video is fully charged for some serious shooting. The Flat Rock site is very shallow, and the area to explore is basically the entire leeward side of the very small island, right up to its shore. 42090032 Flat Rock Reef 24 45.38 76 49.71

There are plenty of coral heads, grunts, snappers, and especially schoolmasters here. I see only one lobster, but many nice scenes of corals, sponges, and juvenile fish. There are quite a few queen angelfish here who are wholly indifferent to divers. Some of my better video consisted of a swarm of sergeant majors, a french angelfish, and some juvenile fish playing around inside a vase sponge.

Near the end of the long dive, Mark from Australia points out a whitespotted moray to me, so I spend another few minutes of video time studying his ugly face (the eel, not Mark).