BY CARLY
Tink, tink, tink. Our friendly
Irish scuba diving guide, Gareth, was rapping on his tank with a metal clip so
he could get our attention. He pointed to a pair of cute butterfly fish and
then made the sign for one by locking his thumbs together and flapping his
fingers. A butterfly fish is a oval-shaped fish with brown lining its top and
bottom fins. It has a streak of white and black on its tail and an OREO pattern
of black and white on its face. I liked
the way that the butterfly fish wiggled their way through the water. It looked like someone had taken a slow
motion video of them and placed it in the sea.
I had just seen a banner fish to my
right. It was black and white striped
with a long, black, banner-like top fin with a yellow tail.
I was staring at it while I was
swimming. I didn't realize I was swimming
strait toward something else...a big yellow
something. I looked up and had to take a sharp left turn to avoid smacking
strait into a large head of coral.
I had been distracted, so I had to swim as
fast as I could to catch up to the others.
Gareth
was unraveling his large pink “Divers Below” blow-up sausage. The sausage is
a long, pink, inflatable cloth balloon that is used to let boats know that
there are divers ascending. He let it
float up to the surface. Then he gave us the thumbs up which meant “go up”. We
pressed the buttons on the tops of our little tubes and we started to rise. Fifteen
seconds later, our heads popped up to the surface. I couldn’t believe that we
had been diving for forty minutes when it had only felt like ten! I stuck my snorkel in my mouth and headed
back to the boat. 
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