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For Wikipedia reference on Stendhal's syndrome : The Stendhal's syndrome is a psychosomatic disease which provokes heart rhythm accelerations, faintness, suffocation and even hallucinations for some people exposed to an over number of arts. This syndrome, quite rare, is part of what we could call tourist troubles or tourist syndromes.
Here, I am again on Queen Manta III, for the same plan (dive, eat, rest)...the dive guides are not totally the same but the Australian girl, Rachel, who was previously my guide the first time, will be again my "buddy". You never dive alone. Always with a person called his "buddy".
At the beginning of the boat, we pray for the same gods to protect us... We never know what could happen !
The weather is better...this time the islands are even more beautiful.
We do the same briefing before diving.
The sun has a 'rendez-vous' with the moon, but the moon...
I still eat my cornflakes all along the day...
The fist day, I twist my ankle again on the deck where we go for diving... Ice, rest and bandage, are the plan for my ankle. On the night dive, we saw a white tip shark (1,5m). Everything with torch as it is a night dive)
The day after at Kho Bon, I will live quite a Stendhalian experience ?
The sensitive people can stop reading now and look at pictures. For the others, you were warned. Before I begin, this is an happy end story, without any problem ! It is 2:17pm, and we begin the descend. The current is quite strong, some beginners try to catch rocks as they can and even a girl is just lay down on corals and rocks. The rocks are full of sharp corals and sometimes there are scorpion fishes which are truly chameleon animals and take colors of their environment in few minutes. Their name is not by chance because they have stings on their backs which are veninmous. Anyway, the girl is safe without injure. The dive goes on and then it is panic. What happens ? Someone noticed a whale shark. I give you the Wikipedia description and pictures of the animal we saw :
Ref : the whale shark (rhindocon typus) is the biggest shark and the biggest fish in the world. (whales are not fish animals). Adult, this animal can measures more than 12m long and weight 12t. Totally safe for human people, the whale shark is often on surface which make it easily observable and approachable by diving.
Our shark is around 3 meters ! This,is the first whale shark of Rachel, my dive guide in 15 years of diving ! It is rare, effectively. Though the strong current against us, Rachel swim quickly toward him (or her ?). I follow her. We hang at rocks in the middle of the washing machine. It is the name given when current goes in all directions. We are few meters from the shark. (the GoPro can not see it !) I have time to see it few seconds and then I am breathless. I am hyperventilating. I breath very strongly and very quickly. I let my rocks and follow the current. The water goes a little in my mask, I hurt my arm on rocks, I feel the water in my mouth. I look for a spot with less current to get back my breath. I shouldn't go to surface, in any case, it is extremely dangerous to go on surface so quickly. I find a spot on the back of the group. I try to calm myself. I still breath quickly and strongly. I try to find some help to calm me. I shouldn't breath so much, under water, because I am consuming my air very fast, too fast. I have enough air, it is ok. But I still not calm myself totally and still breath quickly. Nobody around noticed my panic. I am a little calmer but I still want someone. THEY ALL LOOK AT THE SHARK IN FRONT OF THEM and I am behing them. I bang my tank with my torch to warn them but nobody is turning towards me. The diver girl close to me doesn't want to help me, she doesn't understand. His guide close to her, will check my level of oxygen and will go and see the shark. I cannot move, go back in the current, I don't have strength to do it, I am strengthless by fear. And Rachel is not coming back, we never let his buddy alone ! But there is this f------ whale shark. Of course, I am meaningless compare to him. After few minutes, she is here close to me.
I will finish the dive without strength and a feeling that : it could have been much more dramatic.what happen exactly ? Too much efforts with bad conditions ? The emotion to see such an animal with the bad conditions ? A Stendhal syndrome ?
I have 90 dives, some with such conditions. I passed my rescue diver diploma to learn what to do in such moments. I did the good things, without mistake. At -22 meters, a stupidity is dangerous very quickly. I can just say that in goes very fast and you should have experience and know the gestures to do ! Or, avoid to meet such shark and anyway, if he is here, panic in front of others, not behind ! I was afraid, I got really scared.
The dive of the afternoon will be smooth !
The day after at 7 am, we go for diving at Kho Chai about 10 kilometers from Kho Bon. And there, again, another whale shark passes at few meters from us, as impressive, as big (around 3 meters)... I stay calm. Everything goes well. The animal is beautiful, impressive, I am calm, I am happy. A Stendhal's syndrome can not happen twice !
3 days of diving, 1 shark per day and what a shark ! Moreover, what an adventure !
As a present, I leave Thailand with an ear infection... Visit to doctorat the airport of Bangkok. Antibiotics. But most of it, pain at my left ear. The plane will probably increase the pain because of the change of pressure. I have 5 planes in 4 days !
Thanks for the end of year message by David, Anne and Liluadnewt ( I still don't know who is this person, maybe Delphine B?)
To all of you, have good time for the end of year. I will be probably the first to be in 2014 from Australia.
For Wikipedia reference on Stendhal's syndrome : The Stendhal's syndrome is a psychosomatic disease which provokes heart rhythm accelerations, faintness, suffocation and even hallucinations for some people exposed to an over number of arts. This syndrome, quite rare, is part of what we could call tourist troubles or tourist syndromes.
Here, I am again on Queen Manta III, for the same plan (dive, eat, rest)...the dive guides are not totally the same but the Australian girl, Rachel, who was previously my guide the first time, will be again my "buddy". You never dive alone. Always with a person called his "buddy".
At the beginning of the boat, we pray for the same gods to protect us... We never know what could happen !
The weather is better...this time the islands are even more beautiful.
We do the same briefing before diving.
The sun has a 'rendez-vous' with the moon, but the moon...
I still eat my cornflakes all along the day...
The fist day, I twist my ankle again on the deck where we go for diving... Ice, rest and bandage, are the plan for my ankle. On the night dive, we saw a white tip shark (1,5m). Everything with torch as it is a night dive)
The day after at Kho Bon, I will live quite a Stendhalian experience ?
The sensitive people can stop reading now and look at pictures. For the others, you were warned. Before I begin, this is an happy end story, without any problem ! It is 2:17pm, and we begin the descend. The current is quite strong, some beginners try to catch rocks as they can and even a girl is just lay down on corals and rocks. The rocks are full of sharp corals and sometimes there are scorpion fishes which are truly chameleon animals and take colors of their environment in few minutes. Their name is not by chance because they have stings on their backs which are veninmous. Anyway, the girl is safe without injure. The dive goes on and then it is panic. What happens ? Someone noticed a whale shark. I give you the Wikipedia description and pictures of the animal we saw :
Ref : the whale shark (rhindocon typus) is the biggest shark and the biggest fish in the world. (whales are not fish animals). Adult, this animal can measures more than 12m long and weight 12t. Totally safe for human people, the whale shark is often on surface which make it easily observable and approachable by diving.
Our shark is around 3 meters ! This,is the first whale shark of Rachel, my dive guide in 15 years of diving ! It is rare, effectively. Though the strong current against us, Rachel swim quickly toward him (or her ?). I follow her. We hang at rocks in the middle of the washing machine. It is the name given when current goes in all directions. We are few meters from the shark. (the GoPro can not see it !) I have time to see it few seconds and then I am breathless. I am hyperventilating. I breath very strongly and very quickly. I let my rocks and follow the current. The water goes a little in my mask, I hurt my arm on rocks, I feel the water in my mouth. I look for a spot with less current to get back my breath. I shouldn't go to surface, in any case, it is extremely dangerous to go on surface so quickly. I find a spot on the back of the group. I try to calm myself. I still breath quickly and strongly. I try to find some help to calm me. I shouldn't breath so much, under water, because I am consuming my air very fast, too fast. I have enough air, it is ok. But I still not calm myself totally and still breath quickly. Nobody around noticed my panic. I am a little calmer but I still want someone. THEY ALL LOOK AT THE SHARK IN FRONT OF THEM and I am behing them. I bang my tank with my torch to warn them but nobody is turning towards me. The diver girl close to me doesn't want to help me, she doesn't understand. His guide close to her, will check my level of oxygen and will go and see the shark. I cannot move, go back in the current, I don't have strength to do it, I am strengthless by fear. And Rachel is not coming back, we never let his buddy alone ! But there is this f------ whale shark. Of course, I am meaningless compare to him. After few minutes, she is here close to me.
I will finish the dive without strength and a feeling that : it could have been much more dramatic.what happen exactly ? Too much efforts with bad conditions ? The emotion to see such an animal with the bad conditions ? A Stendhal syndrome ?
I have 90 dives, some with such conditions. I passed my rescue diver diploma to learn what to do in such moments. I did the good things, without mistake. At -22 meters, a stupidity is dangerous very quickly. I can just say that in goes very fast and you should have experience and know the gestures to do ! Or, avoid to meet such shark and anyway, if he is here, panic in front of others, not behind ! I was afraid, I got really scared.
The dive of the afternoon will be smooth !
The day after at 7 am, we go for diving at Kho Chai about 10 kilometers from Kho Bon. And there, again, another whale shark passes at few meters from us, as impressive, as big (around 3 meters)... I stay calm. Everything goes well. The animal is beautiful, impressive, I am calm, I am happy. A Stendhal's syndrome can not happen twice !
3 days of diving, 1 shark per day and what a shark ! Moreover, what an adventure !
As a present, I leave Thailand with an ear infection... Visit to doctorat the airport of Bangkok. Antibiotics. But most of it, pain at my left ear. The plane will probably increase the pain because of the change of pressure. I have 5 planes in 4 days !
Thanks for the end of year message by David, Anne and Liluadnewt ( I still don't know who is this person, maybe Delphine B?)
To all of you, have good time for the end of year. I will be probably the first to be in 2014 from Australia.
