Scubaism

Jazz, a scuba instructor from Holland who is working on Koh Tao in Thailand, had this story to tell about an encounter with a titan triggerfish. She also had a clever way of dealing with it.

I was looking under some rocks for the small stuff like shrimps. I then suddenly felt a bang against my head. Looked up and there was the basterd. Have swam back and ran into my head again! I tried to swim back, but got trapped. there was everywhere corals and rocks around me. And there he came again. He fastforwarded towards my leg and jummy, took a bite. aaargh!

My only thoughts were to stay calm and told mister Trigger not to go for my head. I protected my head with my hands and put my feet up so he would choose to attack my fins.

My students told me he attacked me about 15 times (luckely only one time he took a bite). Then I got a wise idea to blow air out of my alternate airsource (for non divers, it is an extra airsource for emergency occasions). So much air came out, it scared the basterd and I could finally take off. I think with my ass I was actually sitting on his eggs…..