「River?!」

This afternoon, we got violent current although we didn't want...

Ternate Island, it was calm. We expected it will be kind of heeling dive because the wall here is really beautiful. After 10 minutes, we felt mild current started slowly.「 Ok, it's usual, take it easy!」And more few minutes later, current was getting strong, up and down. 「It might be more strong?! But...will happen at this point?! 」Usually, this point is quite calm even if there's current all around. But we never know exactly what will happen. Here is Alor... So, we came up slowly from 25m to 10m. Then suddenly it began... We held on tight to rock, and waited for a while and saw how things turn out. But...nothing changed better, got worse and worse. 「We continue dive? No way!!!」 So we moved to 5m for safety stop, and held again. I heard sound of current...water swooshed. All sand and small things rose up, visibility dropped. I looked up at surface as current got weak a little. The tide was swiling with our bubble...

I got a kind of shock as came up to surface. I couldn't believe that we were just in underwater. Around 2-3m away from us, there's a river...swift current. It's unbelievable.. We were watching this from the boat. We saw big big whirling current, big washing machine. Huuu...frightful surface.

I already had experience even worse than today. But I never expected like this current in this point. It really surprised me. And I knew how difficult to read or expect the current in Alor. Of course it's not always, usually ok. But it's only sometime and suddenly comes. Any way....can I say something??

「Welcome to Alor!」