Location: The Bight, Norman Island
This morning, we woke up in our mega raft with all the dive side and Minerva boats. Lilly and Lila made us pancakes for breakfast, and we all ate while Logan went with Tommy and Ri to do a search and recovery makeup dive. Once they got back, we motored over to the wreck of the Fearless to dive. We swam over a beautiful reef to get to the wreck, which was really cool. We even saw a sleeping nurse shark. After the dive, we sailed to Road Town, where we visited a local dive shop and got lunch. It took the entire two hours we were on shore for our food to come, but it was very good. When we were back on the boat, we sailed to Norman Island, where many of us listened to music and napped. When we arrived, Shane, JJ, and Tatum hooked the mooring ball, and we went snorkeling in the caves. This was a very fun surprise because, for many of us, snorkeling these caves was one of the best stops on the sail side, and we did not get to do it this year. We saw lots of cool fish and swam through lots of caves that brought us to a rock beach at the end. Gabi and I saw a massive barracuda and decided to swim back to the boat as fast as possible because we both had bright pink masks and snorkels, which Tommy told us attracted them. Our staff went to a meeting, and while they were gone, we made dinner and got to a freshwater shower. We also got our phones and got to check in with friends and family. After we cleaned up dinner, we squeezed while talking about our favorite dive sites, which was my question. After that, we signed the paperwork and briefed for the card writing by listening to a story. Cards are nice things and memories for each of the staff and shipmates. Everyone stayed up pretty late finishing these cards.