• Question: whats the funniest thing youve wittnessed In your Job?

    Asked by elsie to Sean on 20 Jun 2011.
    • Photo: Sean Clement

      Sean Clement answered on 20 Jun 2011:


      It’s one of those ‘you had to be there stories’ Me, my girlfriend and a colleague of ours were SCUBA diving. I was conducting a survey coral reef survey whilst my girlfriend and colleague were doing some fish surveys near to me. We’d been followed by 3 small Golden Trevally for most of the dive. Golden Trevally (when they’re small) are yellow and black fish that follow bigger fish around for protection (and, remarkably, manage not to get eaten) Sometimes, they mistake divers for big fish and you end up having them follow you round. These three fish were swimming around my head, generally being a nuisance and just as I was about to swim away, I look over to my girlfriend who raised her hand and quite literally beckoned the fish (definitely the fish, not me or anything!) to come over to her. These three fish all then turned around in unison and swam over to her… I nearly spat my regulator (the bit you breath through) out from laughing.

      I know, not very funny if you weren’t there but I laughed at the time!

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