Day 4 - Baa Atoll

We only had two dives planned today because the captain wanted to make the crossing to North Ari Atoll in the afternoon. He made the right choice because the weather got worse as the day went on, making for another rough ocean passage. Once we reached North Ari, though, the weather improved dramatically. We saw the sun and blue sky for the first time all trip, the winds calmed down, and we had a peaceful night at anchor before our big five-dive day on Sunday.

Dive 1 - Dhonfan Thila
Camera stopped working during this dive. When I opened it up back on the boat, there were a few drops of water in the housing. Definitely need a new o-ring. Really nice swim-through at the start of the dive. Opening at 35', exit at 75'. Really fun to poke around inside. Fish highlights were a manta, Napoleon, turtle, snapper shrimp, and two morays getting cleaned by a shrimp under some coral.

Back on the dhoni, the dive crew dropped the screw-down piece of my regulator yoke overboard. Now I have to use theirs for the rest of the trip. Not happy!

Dive 2 - Horubadhoo Thila
Our last dive on Baa Atoll. Pretty much the same things we've seen before, although there were some bigger grouper & jacks. Got some really good shots of a mantis shrimp hiding in a hole. Found two grouper at a cleaning station at the end of the dive. So fun to watch the little fish dart in their mouths and out their gills.

Some shots of the seas as we crossed to North Ari. Not as bad as the first night, but still an uncomfortable 4-5 hour ride.