Got to the dive shop at 7AM for what would be the beginning of a big day. We were on the boat by 8am and it was a small group, my instructor Eurico (South African!) and Patrick from Australia, another open water diver. We went to the first dive site, the Liberty wreck. A captain deliberately crashed his cargo boat against a reef for an insurance claim in the mid 90's....but fortunately its turned into a nice dive site. My first deep dive and we got down to 30meters...unbelievable how quickly you go through your air at those depths so the entire dive was only 35 minutes. Spent most of the time exploring the wreck and saw some really cool fish and coral developing on the boat. Visiblity wasn't the best so we skipped the next dive at nearby Shark Point to move to the Marine Park where Eurico knew it would be better. Second dive, I did underwater photography so it was a lot slower paced...ended up staying under 55 minutes and got some really cool pictures out of the whole thing. Saw this color changing octopus and hovered around him for a while just watching him hang out on the sea floor. The last dive was around Maya Bay, where they filmed the infamous traveler movie, The Beach. It started raining once we got in the water so visibility turned bad quick, but a good dive nonethelss. Saw some really nice coral reefs and a ton of fish....still haven't really learned the names of these things!
Back into town, I was pretty tired after three dives so took a nap. Done with diving it was time to explore Phi Phi nightlife. The dive shop was celebrating a divemaster certification and a new trainee from Louisiana so we headed there for some jumbalaya and see the festivities. A big group moved to a nearby bar for the new divemaster's snorkel test....a funnel attached to a snorkel with a mask that was blacked out with tape....They filled the funnel with 3 shots of vodka, a half liter of sprite and then 2 more shots of vodka and this girl had to put it down without taking a breath! She pulled it off (don't think I could have!) and that set the tone for a fun night out....long story short, hit 3 bars and ended up at Ibiza, a beach bar, looked at my watch which read 4:45AM so it was time to get home....
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