Not too good of a story, but...
I got to go collecting for one of the wholesalers who had stakes in the Tonga station. Went for 2.5 months in July. Last day of diving, I felt a little sick, being winter there and eating very little I'm sure didn't help.
Last dive of the day, went to a new spot. There were strong undercurrents, and I ended up going around 50ft at first. Long story short, I had a blackout(none of the natives could go past 30ft) and ended up grabbing a rock to hold on after i had lost my collecting tools(bucket, hammer, etc). There was a large Jack circling the spot I was in. I quickly swam away since it was a big fish, and I had no clue where i was. I ended up looking at the computer seeing I was much deeper, and checked my PSI.
Ended up looking along the sand bed, and found a white leptoseris with green eyes and a double headed green polyp sarcophyton that were easily collected off of the brittle branch rock.
Came back up, and felt sick on the boat. Rest of the trip I was ready to die, since I had ruptured my ear drum on that dive. Only a few days, but man, what an awful feeling. I managed to go to the local hospital and get some Codeine, which helped a little bit on top of lots of Aleve that I had luckily brought. Flying home and for a week after my ear had to be kept clogged with a cotton ball, which I had to change every hour. Not too pleasant.
Now, my ear is all healed up, and I can hear fine, and dive. And I sold B the Toadstool at Macna with some other corals. None of the others have a story though
I wish I still had some of the corals, unfortunately my business partner and I had a falling out and I have yet to get any of my stuff back.
joe
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