I figured out theres alot of fish in the ocean!

I think the title says it all! Today we got to sleep in because our daily dive coarse didn't start until 930 am....YEAH! We headed out to Champun Pinnacle at about 12:30 after a good Thai Lunch. The weather was stormy and rainy today so that made for a bumpy 45 minute ride to the dive site. Champun Pinnacle is a formation in deep open water that is about 20 meters deep. The schedule called for our first dive to be a deep water dive. We decended the farthest I've ever been....30 meters. It's a bit unnerving to realize your almost 100 feet underwater but I managed pretty well. Anyway, back to the title of this post......Theres alot of fish in the ocean. HOLY CRAP!!!....that's all I can say. I would place the number of fish we saw on our 45 minute dive at approximately 123,763. There were just massive schools of various species of fish. We saw one small shark and several hundred Giant Barracuda that were upwards of 4-5 feet long. The quantity of fish is by far the most staggering part of being out there. At one point two massive schools of different kinds of fish passed under us. It was remarkable to see the precision which the avoided each other and worked out the lack of open water. It reminded me in alot of way to the traffic patterns of Bangkok. I would honestly guess that those two schools alone has more than 10,000 fish in them. And theres just more fish everywhere you look. It wasn't possible to look in any given direction and not see fish. Remarkable! The afternoon consisted of a navigation dive at about 15 meters because we were in a high "pressure group" from our previous deep water dive. In the second dive we were split into buddy teams of two and it was up to us to navigate around and find our way back to the boat. Although Cindi thinks I have a pretty good sense of direction....underwater is a different story to say the least. I made it back to the boat but not without alot of flipping the map around alot trying to figure out which way was which. I guess we could have just gone up but that spoils the fun!
I'm looking forward to tomorrow. We will visit two new dive sites: Southwest Pinnacle and Shark Island. We are hoping for either a sea turtle or a whale shark or both so keep your fingers crossed. Tomorrow night we have our night dive which should also be quite an experience. It's time to head to the Mexican restaurant because its buffet night on Ko Tao...WOOOO HOOO! I'll talk to you all later. Rob