Balinghai Stingray encounter!

Hendrick and I headed to Balinhai last Thursday for a little deep dive action as part of his advanced class. While heading out to the wall we were greeted by a Mantis shrimp outside his den. Heading down the wall we spotted a 2 meter banded coral snake looking for unsuspecting fish in a small crevice on the reef. As we crossed the sand patch at 18-30 meters and got to the outer wall a Green sea turtle glided by us, at this point I had turned to Hendrick three times pointing and giving a the "shaka" which mean we are seeing cool stuff. Hendrick remember as part of his advanced class to notify me when 20 min was up, and his buoyancy and trim were spot on. As we started to cross the sand patch I noticed lots of disturbed silt and sand in the water which looked unnatural. That meant one thing, Huge stingray! Hendrick and I followed the sand cloud till it reached it thickest point and there it was, at least a two meter brown ray flapping its wings in the sand. It looked up and saw Hendrick and I and wanted nothing to do with us and gracefully glided away. At 70 Bar we called the dive and started our ascent to our first safety stop 9 meters and then to 6 m and 3m with a 1 min stop for each. Another great dive in Boracay! Good job Hendrick!