While we were waiting for the collecting permits to go through, Adam, Jason and I were getting antsy, so we put on our snorkeling stuff and explored out behind our hotel. It was rather shallow for about 300 yards, and then we came across more and more coral. Just past the reef, the shelf dropped off and the drop to the bottom was about 30feet down. Jason just ‘had’ to touch the bottom, so he did. He said when he was down there, he could feel something kind of watch him, he looked up and saw a 3-4 foot shark about 15 ft. away, he freak out a little & quickly swam up, as he was doing so the shark swam away. I missed it and only saw the tail end of him as he must have been bored with us-Im perfectly fine with that! When we got back that evening Dr. Goodwill warned us that around 4-7pm is shark feeding time so we should stay out of the water around then-that piece of information would have nice to know before we left as it was around 4pm that we went out snorkeling. Luckily we made it back all in one piece. =] ha.ha.
where the run in occured.
Adam, Jason and I were bored another time so we went out again exploring. We wanted to go out the reef behind the hotel again, so we made our way out there. We were more than half way there when something caught our eye, it was an old military tank! The top of it had been taken off, whether by tides, erosion or blown up we didn’t know, but we were proud and excited for our find. After getting back in Dr. Goodwill said in all the years he had gone he had never heard of a tank being out there.
On a driving tour of the island, Dr. Goodwill drove by military tanks that are about 100-300 yards out {still in the ocean}. Because it's so shallow, about half of the tank is always above ground. That was one spot we all really wanted to snorkel out to, so one day we convinced Dr. Goodwill to take us out there. (If he didn’t, we definitely would have just gone ourselves.) We swam out to one, then out to the second. At the second Jason ended up finding old bullet casings that we 'snuck' back with us.
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