After not diving with Eli for a looooong time, we finally were able to do another afternoon dive outside of ML. He took me to the left and the grounds were pretty dead. I had been to that spot a few times previously and on each account the grounds were also pretty dead. haha.
We got to the parking lot and started to talk and catch up. We made our way down to the beach and there was quite a bit of people/tourists staring at the two weird full wetsuited divers with spearguns.
The water was nice but on the murky side. As we got in Eli swam towards me holding up one busted band. I laughed and he was like oh well one band is better than none....haha I could have sworn those were the same bands he used on our last dive and they were really buss up! We swam around the left side point and saw.....nothing! The uhus were also scarce! haha
Eli and I took turns taking blind drops and dusting as we were trying to find the elusive Mu pile. After only seeing bubbles and coral eggs we decided to swim farther left. We came across a big opelu kala which eli took a shot on but due to the lack of speargun rubbers it dodged he shaft and swam away.
Eli started to reload and I watched as the opelu kala came back and hid under a rock right below us. I signaled eli to go down as I wanted to give him the sweet taste of redemption.
He drops down and is looking in the totally opposite direction that I signaled to him where the fish was hiding. He turns to the left and sees it! It spooks a little and Eli chases it down and gets a nice shot off! the one bandit Eli strikes again! haha
We keep swimming farther down and I take a drop on an uhu but miss. We start to head back and work the coast line as the sun is getting lower. We come across a nice cave and check it but nothing inside....
On the other side however is an abundance of fish. Uhus, joes and toaus. Its a perfect picture window to snipe and we take turns dropping down. The fish would come in but it was hard to line up as the current would rush through and push us in and out of the vagina hole.
Eli finally gets a shot off on a nice whiptail but it rips off.
We head back as its nearing the witching hour. We come across two more opelu kalas and I keep signaling Eli to spear one. (My friend wanted a bunch to make fish patties) Eli finally caves in and takes my gun and drops and gets a good holding shot on a big opelu kala.
The other one is still around and I dive down and take a shot with Elis riffe and get a good holding shot. The fish both start to go nuts and during the whole ordeal I am trying to stop my uncontrollable laughter. I forgot to note that just previous to this we saw a white tip shark (5 footer).
Eli looks up and me and pops his head outta the water and yells "Shark frenzy! Lets get the fuck outta here!!!" I laugh and am trying to subdue my fish but due to my uncontrollable laughter my mask keeps leaking. I finally string up my fish and wait for Eli to do the same.
We start to swim and I feel a strong pull on my daisy chain. I look up and see the water splashing from the shark thrashing as he taxes part of an opelu kala. I drop the anchor and rush towards the float. The shark is circling and rushing the fish. I dive down and try to keep the shark at bay. I look at Eli and after we both try to keep the shark away from our prizzzzed catch, he grabs the anchor and starts to swim in.
I stay in the back and keep the shark at bay. It constantly comes back circles and rushes in to get the fish. It took about another 20 minutes of swimming with the shark constantly at my heels. The murkiness of the water also didnt help as most times I could not see him coming.
At one time I kept swimming in and he swam right up to me from behind me. I finally give the shark a nice poke and he goes away. Such determination! Eli and I both beach and are laughing. We carry the fish up to the shower just in time to see the security guard coming. Eli tells him the story and we carry everything back to the truck.
Another epic dive at ML. I hope those fish patties come out good because I almost got chomped!
The End.
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