Fish

During a dive at the house reef in Aquaba I see a blue fish. The color is so striking; I know at once it is a false stonefish (Scorpaenopsis diabolus).
I always find it strange, the tropical fish have these notable colors, there is nobody to see it. This colorful Scorpio stays motionless, he knows he is poisonous, that gives him confidence. I am fully aware of that, but I am not scarred either. I want to get closer and closer, I need to take a picture of his eye.

We are in the Bahamas and we are going to dive with sharks, the ordinary Caribbean Reef shark (Carcharhinas perezi). Before we have dived one week with Jim Abernathy on de M/V Shearwater and we are used to lemon sharks, reef sharks and even big tiger sharks. I am not blasé, but I have the wrong kind of self-confidence and a feeling of: nothing can happen to me...
Well, we will see about that!

Christina:

Sitting down with a nice cup of coffee we still cannot believe what we have experienced today. A little more than half a day of diving lies behind us. Not a normal dive day, no, diving with Tiger Sharks is diving in a different way. You either enjoy or fear these enormous animals. We were to found that out ourselves this day. Family and friends thought we had gone crazy. Tiger Sharks are well known as agressive animals. And we were going to dive with them in open sea. Completely stupid they declared us.