Experience a different kind of night life…….Night Diving
Posted By Francesca Koe on 3 March 2004
Okay, now that I’ve gotten your attention let me tell you why that statement is true about scuba diving at night. And why, more importantly, night diving is a specialty everyone should try. With the proper training and supervision everyone can double their underwater pleasure by taking the plunge at night.
There is a certain mystique about night diving that makes entering even a well-known dive site super exciting. As the sun goes down many reefs can turn into the underwater equivalent of the Las Vegas Strip at night, complete with the spectacle of sex, shimmering lights and the gamble of lurking sharks!
Once you've become accustomed to night diving, you'll find your experience transforms from one of thrills and excitement to one of relaxed and blissful contentment. You are truly in your own world, surrounded in weightless solitude with a feeling of peace and silky stillness. I go night diving to relax. It truly is the "total escape", the best in sensory deprivation. When you first decide to dive in at night, go with someone who is experienced at night diving, preferably an instructor, and remember to enjoy! It may take more than one or two night dives to become comfortable, but once you can relax - you will absolutely love it. And you will see things you never get a chance to glimpse in the daytime.
So back to the sex…
When the sun is shining certain sea-faring creatures and organisms act much more reserved and less flashy than they really are, that is, they show their true colors once the sun goes down! Bashful during the day, corals and gorgonians spread themselves wide open, exposing flower-like polyps and reaching tentacles, just hoping to pick-up some passing plankton. Star and brain corals are the real orgy exhibitionists, erupting with tiny egg packets and wisps of sperm that float toward the surface under the seductive glimmer of bioluminescence. Voracious lobsters and brittle stars change the love-making mood to a feeding frenzy, placing eggs in their mouths as quickly as they can catch them! Nudibranchs come out to join the nighttime feast, as do crabs, and urchins, all making an appearance to feed and mate. Certain species of fish, like grouper and wrasse engage in group sex, ejecting burst of eggs and sperm into the water. Then of course there are the nocturnal voyeurs like octopuses and seahorses who actively come out at night to watch the debauchery. But like any good party, there is always someone there to crash it, namely predators, like the reef shark, who enjoy doing their dirty work under the shadows of twilight that converge into night.
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