Diving at Fagatele Bay Marine Sanctuary

Today Carol and I went diving with Paul for the National Park. We launched the boat in Pago Pago Harbor. It was a beautiful day, and after popping some Dramamine earlier in the morning, I thoroughly enjoyed the 30 minute boat ride to Fagatele Bay Marine Sanctuary. It is always so refreshing to see our island from the water-- gone from view are all the problems, such as the insane amounts of litter. Instead, you just see the beauty of the island. Seeing the huge mountains and the rugged shoreline always makes me think of what explorers must have thought when they first saw Tutuila.As always, I was hoping to see dolphins, but instead we saw hundreds of flying fish jumping out of the water around the boat. We had a fantastic dive. The Sanctuary is filled with a wide variety of corals and the visibility underwater was amazing. The water temperature is 86 degrees right now. It is so warm that I don't even wear a wetsuit and we can stay underwater forever! Today our dive was 70 minutes long. It sure beats diving in the frigid waters of Lake Superior!