PLONGEUR SOLITAIRE - LE LIVRE - Partie 9
Le désagréable roulis causé par la houle entrante ayant eu raison de celui bien moins désagréable causé par la présence de la ravissante Rachelle, je vire mon mouillage au matin, et reprends ma route vers le Nord, direction Malekula Island. Lamap fait dors et déjà parti des endroits où j’ai promis de revenir. Cette seconde « escale plongée » me permet de voir en deux semaines et sur 100m de côtes, tout ce que peut espérer voir un plongeur en une vie sur toute la zone des tropiques. L’entrée de la baie forme une passe balayée par un courant raisonnable et fait le lien entre la vie de la haute mer et celle de la mangrove. La nourriture y est donc abondante et la vie marine peut s’y épanouir. Les villageois ont décidé de protéger cette zone, non pas dans l’optique d’en faire un produit rentable par le tourisme, mais tout simplement dans le simple but de protéger leur environnement proche. Rien de plus. Ici, aucun ticket d’entrée, aucun garde, aucune loi, mais uniquement du bon sens et du respect pour la nature et pour l’avenir.
Je plonge sur la rive droite de la passe. A leur habitude, les requins viennent à ma rencontre dès ma mise à l’eau. Au fur et à mesure de mes plongées répétées au même endroit, l’un d’entre eux, un dagsit de 2m, finira par devenir de plus en plus curieux et donc proche de mon objectif. Ils resteront en général toute la durée des plongées en ma compagnie, excepté une fois. Cette fois là, les 3 requins qui me tournaient autour ont soudainement fuit comme si je les avais menacés. Dans un premier temps surpris, je compris rapidement le pourquoi de leur étrange comportement. Quelques secondes plus tard, j’aperçus à une vingtaine de mètres de moi une énorme masse nageant sur un rythme uniforme et sans changer de direction. Un requin d’une taille supérieure à 4m et entouré d’une cours d’une vingtaine de carangues et rémoras, venait de me passer devant. D’habitude attiré vers eux par fascination et par nécessité photographique, je n’ai cette fois-ci pas fait le moindre geste... Trop éloigné, il m’est difficile d’émettre un avis quant à l’espèce de ce requin. Requin tigre, gros requin bouledogue, je ne saurais jamais.
A suivre...
The unpleasant rolling caused by the incoming swell having overcome the much less unpleasant one caused by the presence of the lovely Rachelle, I turn my anchor in the morning, and resume my journey towards the North, towards Malekula Island. Lamap made sleep and already left the places where I promised to return. This second "diving stopover" allows me to see in two weeks and 100m of coastline, all that a diver can hope to see in a lifetime on the entire tropics area. The entrance to the bay forms a passage swept by a reasonable current and makes the link between the life of the high seas and that of the mangrove. Food is therefore abundant and marine life can flourish there. The villagers decided to protect this area, not in order to make it a profitable product for tourism, but simply with the aim of protecting their immediate environment. Nothing more. Here, no entry ticket, no guard, no law, but only common sense and respect for nature and the future.
I dive on the right bank of the pass. As usual, sharks come to meet me as soon as I enter the water. As I repeat my dives in the same place, one of them, a 2m dagsit, will eventually become more and more curious and therefore close to my goal. They will generally stay with me for the whole duration of the dives, except once. That time, the 3 sharks that were circling me suddenly fled as if I had threatened them. At first surprised, I quickly understood the reason for their strange behavior. A few seconds later, I noticed about twenty meters from me an enormous mass swimming at a uniform pace and without changing direction. A shark larger than 4m and surrounded by a yard of about twenty jacks and sharks, had just passed me. Usually attracted to them by fascination and photographic necessity, I did not make the slightest gesture this time... Too far away, it is difficult for me to make an opinion about the species of this shark. Tiger shark, big bull shark, I will never know.
To be continued...
Part 1 : https://ecency.com/hive-184437/@marc-allaria/plongeur-solitaire-the-book-part
Part 2 : https://ecency.com/hive-184437/@marc-allaria/plongeur-solitaire-le-livre-partie
Part 3 : https://ecency.com/hive-184437/@marc-allaria/plongeur-solitaire-le-livre-partie-c1c041d6bcefd
Part 4 : https://ecency.com/hive-184437/@marc-allaria/plongeur-solitaire-le-livre-partie-4-new-caledonia
Part 5 : https://peakd.com/hive-184437/@marc-allaria/plongeur-solitaire-le-livre-partie-9a83ce8fd682a
Part 6: https://ecency.com/hive-184437/@marc-allaria/plongeur-solitaire-le-livre-partie-6c3e2a00f0704
Part 7: https://peakd.com/hive-184437/@marc-allaria/plongeur-solitaire-le-livre-partie-dffa5ae35505f
Part 8 : https://ecency.com/hive-184437/@marc-allaria/plongeur-solitaire-le-livre-partie-902f2fd33c9da
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