Stefan the mighty fish!

Hello all,

Its been a while since I last blogged in and so much fun has passed since then. I wanted to attach a video by Stefan from Germany who at some point was my buddy underwater. What fun we had whilst Stefan was around and he was kind enough to allow me to show some of his pictures and videos. One particular moment with Stefan was when I infringed upon his Deep Dive course that he was specialising in, we were down at 30m doing all these fabulous excercises and I carried a full bottle of water down to the bottom, only to find in my amazement that the water had disappeared from the bottle...i look up and see Stefan, showing his white slate saying 'WOW, its magic(something like that) I just howled (yep you canlaugh underwater but only you can hear it). Stefan's humour often popped in at the right moments, stoical and reserved. I bet Michael our Instructor had some challenging moments to impress Stefan. In particular on this occasion, we were diving towards our exit on a billowing gale like moment, I was hanging off the safety rope because I could not fight against the tide and Stefan came along to help me dive further. I then remember looking up and Michael signalling that I stay where I am. I thought what a wonderful opportunity to try and capture some images of these lovely fish since I believed we were at some safety stop. I look around at a plethora of fish around us, desperate to take photos and wondering where they have all come from and keep popping my head up to look at Michael and Stefan standing there. Its not until we come out of the sea high and dry that I realise where all the fish came from because dear stefan was vomiting in his regulator whilst we were waiting. Now I know what attracts these little fish! Thank you Stefan for some photo opportunities, for rescuing me whilst you were feeling ill and poor stefan as well. Many more fun moments with Stefan have occurred, he loved housereef so much often asking for a buddy to come along(I was overlooked..hee hee..not really)

In fact another funny moment was when Stefan saw a Turtle, how I laughed, all I saw was his fins just flapping so fast as he ran after this turtle to capture it in his camera. His buddy was left behind and I was being told off by my Instructor who thought i was his buddy! Its amazing how you can communicate down under with some signs! I was told never to do what Stefan did..secretly i found it really funny and stefan realised instantly what position he was in and immediately came back to the fold! A funny picture experience indeed!