Earlier in the day I dived off a banca, a local Filipino outrigger style boat atop of a wall starting at 40 metres viewing a couple of white tip sharks, a school of Tuna following the sharks and naturally the schools they are chasing.

As we were diving nitrox to extend our bottom times, we had plenty of time to enjoy the action on the wall before ascending to a shallower reef to extend our time. As we had ascended to the top of the reef to begin our decompression we saw a largish banded sea snake swimming down from the surface after taking a breath.

The sea snake was fossicking around in the coral before launching at a Moray eel landing a lethal bite on its back before quickly moving into position and grabbing the Moray by the head with what I guess was a further series of bites. As the sea snake wrestled with the Moray, it hyper extended its jaw attempting to swallow the eel whole. This just wasn’t happening although the sea snake was having none of this, I have to respect its perseverance before finally giving up and heading to the surface to breathe again.

The guys in our group went to view the lifeless Moray eel on the reef while I sat on point ready to inform our group of the return of the sea snake who was a tad aggressive and I certainly didn’t want a bite from this reptile. As they were checking out the incapacitated moray, a large sweetlips took an interest into the commotion before a school of 100+ baby Barracuda engaged in what could be described as a stampede racing past our group before being broken up by the presence of the sweetlips. So that was our dive, Boracay isn’t well known for its diving, this particular dive changed my mind about the decision to dive at Boracay again.