Dive #156 - Rich Torkington's Dive Log

A french angelfish on Barracuda Shoals
Videograph by Rich Torkington in Bahamas 2003

Dive Journal: Another big dinner and it’s time for our night dive, again here at Flat Rock. It’s my 5th dive of the day, the first time I’ve done this. Further, tonight will mark Johnny’s official night dive toward his Advanced cert, and he’ll be diving with Lars.

On the sand flats beneath the boat, we immediately discover a huge lobster freewheeling about – excellent. The usual coral polyp feeding is fun. I find a small bluish octopus on top of a coral head, but he quickly buries into a crevice when I light him up.

Fortunately, Lars finds a much bigger one soon enough, and we spend several minutes hovering around him as he slithers and coils along trying to get away from our dive lights. The color is really interesting, changing from bluish to greenish to brownish.

Lars also finds a couple of sea goddesses, which were really tiny and mostly blue. A thorough review of Humann’s book later still couldn’t identify which ones we looked at. Linda found another cowfish or trunkfish that came right up to her mask and demanded to be petted, which made the dive for her.