The last day of diving was both sad as it was the last day of diving, and amazing at the same time.
We got up to a fantastic breakfast as usual, and then headed to the Lobster No Lobster dive site.
It's named Lobster No Lobster as it is the site where Jacques Cousteau learned that Lobsters migrate (without the help of either European or African Swallows).
They do go at times en masse from reef to reef, hence the first dive he did at this particular reef had a ton of lobster, and on a return dive a few days later he found it had none. He later saw a lobster migration as it happened, but he did not confirm or deny that the lobsters were banging coconuts together that they had gripped in their claws as they migrated.
On our dive we did indeed find lobster, and real big ones too:
This lobster actually turned and then used his antennae to smack Gio on his head as he got close to it.
Quite a few reef fish around to enjoy looking at, but then the main even soon arrived.
As you can see in the video, I got some up close face-time with an inquisitive Caribbean Reef Shark. It also startled a few other divers as you can see in the video near the end.
He came close enough on multiple passes that I could've Booped the Snoot, but happily, no snoots were booped in the making of this video.
The shark was rather chill and was content to make quite a few passes checking things out. Two other sharks were also frolicking about the area as well. The idea when a shark comes to check you out is to keep your cool, maintain eye contact, don't try and swim rapidly away from an approaching shark or make any panicked movements. You should be ready to put something like your fins or camera between you and the shark should that be necessary, in this case it was not.
This extended shark encounter made for a fantastic first dive of the last day, and a highlight of the entire trip.
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