Freediving with Mantas- Ending with Tears_ Adventures on One Breath #8

Hey freediving family, we're in Nusa Lembongan. Just finished teaching a freediving instructor course up in Ahmed, Bali. We've come to Nusa Lembongan just to hang out for a few days and hopefully, if the weather is good, dive with some mantas. On our way to dive with mantas. Gonna be sick! Nusa Lembongan is this really cool island just off the southeast coast of Bali. People go there mostly to surf, but actually all the best diving is on the island just next to it, which is a massive island called Nusa Penida. There's a place on Nusa Penida called Manta Point where all the mantas aggregate. So that's where we're gonna head. So the swell is too rough to go to Manta Point, so we're having a look for some mantas around here, but we are not feeling super optimistic. It's hard to spot the mantas from the surface when there's this much surf and it's that choppy, you know? We just played a cat and mouse game with the mantas and the mantas won. It turns out that the mantas do not like being chased by boats. So swimming with the mantas was a little bit of a fail. The conditions were pretty rough and I don't think the mantas really liked being chased by boats in general. They didn't seem like they were feeding, so they weren't relaxed. So we'd spot one from the surface, or like Amber would spot one from the surface, point, make us jump off the boat and usually find nothing. But we did our best and we did see one or two mantas in the bad winds that we had. We found some clear water. We're just gonna go have a bit of a fun dive instead. Nusa Penida is known for its really strong currents and its drift dives. So we hopped on this cool ledge and started drifting along with the current. Well, I mean, Amber started swimming around trying to look pretty and elegant, while me and Ads basically just stuffed around. There she is, swimming around, being elegant. I'll tell you a freediving secret, that dolphin kick makes anyone look elegant. I can't even imagine how many times she would have been rolling her eyes at us underwater. She was probably even holding this camera, rolling her eyes at us this very moment. Adsy knew of this really cool place where we could go cliff jumping. I was not going to be jumping off any cliffs, but they were welcome to. Apparently on a sunny day, when there's not a lot of swell, it's pretty nice. Just getting ready to jump off this cliff. It's at least 50 metres high, like no reasonable human would do it. At least 100 metres. I'm actually not going to do it. I'll be jumping off the kiddies one, which is more my style. Freedom! Is he alive? He's alive! Try not to die. So then me and Adsy had this brilliant idea that we would go and swim under waves and film it. We were like, oh yeah, that would look cool. We've seen people do that before. And then a very large set of waves rolled through. And I was just pooing my pants. Getting thrown around, washed around, pooing my pants everywhere. And I'm saying to myself, come on Adam, you can hold your breath for a long time. Relax, just relax. So anyway, I passed the camera to Adsy and he stayed out there having a good old time. Swimming around in the waves while I swam in. Look at him, look at him. Just showing me right up. We capped the day off with a little dive, a little surf. Just off the beach right in front of our hotel. Me and Amber found these little cracks, these little fingers through the reef. And as the swell was rolling in and out, we'd swim along with it really, really fast. And just dart through the cracks and the coral. It was a fair bit of fun. I am not the best surfer. And then a wave hit Adsy and he was in for it. Your very best not to get thrown onto shallow reef while taking photos. Wow, I hit the bad Z. Give it to him. Oh the burn, oh the burn. Oh, Amber loves it. Look how happy Amber is.