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This picture alone contains several sachets, from Head & Shoulders to Great Taste and Starbucks coffee to Knorr Sinigang Mix, clear plastics that can easily be mistaken as jellyfishes, Jellyace, Marlboro cigarette butts, a bottle cap, hardcase foam, plastic cups, straws (the usual), and guess what, two (TWO!) old lighters. As divers, how can we continue to ignore this?

After my first #nightdive, more alien creatures have been added to these fishions. Visions, get it? Ok, I stop now. There were cuttlefishes that I so patiently waited to work their camouflage magic; crabs, HUGE crabs, then more crabs inside every imaginable makeshift-shell; shrimps that looked pretty and pretty delicious; lionfishes to stay away from unless you want to die a slow agonizing death; a huge worm which I wasn’t too keen on observing closely and swam away from as fast as my tired but happy fins could; a HUGE pretty starfish; a lazy flounder that deserved its name…