After breakfast we had our second dive. There was a monster current so I used up my air very quickly. We were hoping to see manta rays, but failed. We did see a large gray shark sleeping in a cave (Today seems to be the day for caves and big sleeping things). I saw a medium size eagle ray - he wasn't far away, but though I tried as hard as I could I couldn't make t against the current and just used up most of my air trying. I started to run low on air so I told the dive master I was going to ascend to ten meters and follow - that way my air would last a lot longer. But the visibility was so bad that from ten meters I couldn't see anything or anyone so I just gave up and surfaced and let the boat pick me up - it turned out that the others were no more than five minutes behind me anyway.

In the afternoon I skipped the third dive (no computer and two pretty deep dives already). I'd gotten too much sun this morning so I spent the day trying to stay out of it - reading and working on my computer. It was my sister's birthday and since I couldn't call I at least wrote her an email that I'll be able to send later. We had a very nice very red sunset. We had a late barbecue on the beach. The crew went all out to set it up and there were over twenty small fire pits dug and lit and a huge table shaped like a manta ray dug into the sand. The food was pretty typical of the boat - not bad, but nothing special. After dinner the crew played the drums for us which should have been nice. Over all I was a little unimpressed with the evening. My shipmates had been drinking all evening and I don't even understand sober German... The stars were incredible though - the whole milky way, the big dipper, and the southern cross!