Did our first transect yesterday. Right at HDL. One person lays out a transect tape 30 m and takes so basic measurements: depth, temp, etc. One pair of people then swim along transect recording all the fish they see. Next pair records all the Sea Urchins they sea. Last pair has a 1 sq. m quadrat and gives rough estimates of benthos composition every 5, 10, 15, ..., and 30 m. I was with the benthos team. After data was collected and inputed we took an optional snorkel at the south end of Long Cay. Swam with another shark, that was cool. But the highlight may of been seeing a lobster carcass being feasted upon by all the reef fish. That was really cool. Also, the head alone of the lobster was over 12 in. Finally after dinner, the divers went back to The Plane for our Night Dive. This may of been one of the coolest things that I have ever done. Saw two spotted moray eels, lobsters, sleeping parrotfish, shrimps, a Crinoidea, all types of small stuff swimming in my face, and something very interesting. I forget the name but imagine a translucent cylindrical creature with a hole at each end the size of a twinkie. It wasn't a jelly, but you could watch it munch on stuff and see what it had eaten, still alive, in its stomach. We then knelt on the sediment and turned our lights off. At this point we started waving our hands in the water in no particular sequence and the sea started to light up. Little bioluminescent creatures giving off a neon green light in the darkness. And finally, since this was my fifth dive of the advanced course, I'm now Advanced Open Water Certified, yayy!!