previously on delos! we set out on our first cruise of the andamans islands. babs gets inked by a squid. and the boys go fishing! the moon looks like a sun. yeah that's nice! we left the anchorage and there's like 9 knots of breeze so we're able to sail. we turned the motor off, we've got all the sails up. and we're doing like 5 knots in the right direction.
it's beautiful. full moon. i've got my cup of rum with some tea. that's what it's all about. sailing into the full moon to a volcanic island. the last few days have been awesome. when we sailed from thailand to here... to andamans the sea was... it wasn't rough but for me it was still kind of you know you had to get used to how it was. it was very rolly and stuff but now it's so calm. and we're still going 5 knots. so for me this is perfect.
and we have a full moon. and you can have a cup of tea and just enjoy it. it's really nice. and we're going to a volcano! good morning everybody! it is 3:30 in the morning and the conditions for our sail east to barren island is pretty much near perfect. it doesn't really feel like we're going upwind at all. the boats hardly healed over and the ocean is super flat and super calm. the full moons out so that makes everything much more pleasant. yeah so everyone is real cozy
down in their bunks sleeping well and it makes a nice night watch for us out here. hello everyone! bubbles here. first time doing a night watch log which is exciting. we're about two hours away now from barren island which is really exciting. first time to see a live volcano so i'm really happy about that. loving it! it's just perfect. i like sailing a lot! so yeah the andaman islands are pretty remote to start with and not a lot of people come here. and barren island is a live volcano kind of removed from the andaman islands
so even less people come here and it's a pretty special spot cause it's really deep water and then the volcano just comes up from like 2000 meters of depth so usually when you get something like that there's really good sea life and marine life around it and really cool diving topography cause there's like big underwater cliffs so that's kind of what i'm hoping for. oh shit! sooo. um and there's nobody here it's like 50 miles off the coast of the andaman islands and like about 350 miles from burma on one side and thailand on the other side so it's just kind of in the middle of the andaman sea. and it should be sweet.
brady! morning! ugggg. morning.... do you want to come up and check out barren island? yup. is it a volcano? it's a jewel of the sea. ohh fuck. yeah man so this place is really crazy. like the water is so deep so we're just gonna go ahead and drop now. in like... we're in about 30 meters of water and we'll drop the hook and then once the sun comes up a bit more vertical and we have a better view i think we're gonna try to come into this. there's like a big cove right here where the lava flow is. does this look good to you? yeah yeah.
go ahead and drop here bro! i don't know. i just walked out here i'm like holy fuck there's a volcano! good morning! us girls we just woke up and the guys and just like fixing and anchors out. you know... it's really really cool though. so because it's so deep here we're gonna ummm. brady and i are gonna go in the dinghy with the stern anchor and dinghy over to the rocks over there where there's more of like a deeper kind of channely bit, set the anchor, and then you guys are gonna
back the boat down and toss the line out and stern tie. so then hopefully we'll be a bit closer in and still have cool view of the volcano and be bow into the swell. so we'll see how we sit. just in case you didn't catch that. here's the plan. josje-rama and the braidster will take our spare anchor out in maggie. and drop it really close to the volcano. we'll then pull delos towards the shore setting our main anchor on the cliffs below in the process. put it on this cleat, and as i back up just take up the slack alright?
port blair radio, port blair radio, this is the yacht delos delos over. station calling port blair. yeah port blair this is the yacht delos with our position report for the morning over. yeah confirm the name of the ship. name of the ship is delos. delta echo lima oscar sierra over. okay sailing yacht delos good morning go ahead! good morning to you! we are now anchored on the west side of barren island. coordinates as follows. twelve degrees one six decimal nine seven north, nine three degrees
five zero decimal eight four east over. confirm how long will you stay there. we will be anchoered in this location for two more days over. yeah two more days over. yes sir that is correct. next port will be myanbundar over. uhhh please spell out. mike yankee alpha november bravo uniform november delta alpha romeo over. okay next port will be myanbunder after two days. okay. thank you keep in touch with port blair port radio.
we will have a great day sir goodbye. okay bye. good day. with the butter chicken beaurocracy advised of our current whereabouts we decided it was time. time to get in the water and do some exploring. what do you feel most excited about bri? manta rays! at a volcano. it's just cool man. good diving, clear water, deep drop offs. big fish! it's good. so i haven't dived for a while. so now i'm checking some charts- the recreational dive planner to refresh my memory. dive stops and stuff since i don't have a dive watch which all the other ones do.
i'm a bit old school. i'm very excited yeah. it's going to be great to see some manta rays. i already saw a manta ray actually when i snorkeled. how big were they max? this big. this big. see you soon guys! so all the guys they have gone diving so they are going to be down for 40 minutes. and me and babs are going snorkeling because max saw a manta ray just over there so we want to see some to. i'm really excited. and we got the camera! yeah! it's gonna be fucking awesome! we go crazy with the camera when they're gone.
woo hoo! our first order of business was to check our anchor chain. making sure it was laid out nicely, and not snagged on any volcanic bits. we ended up racing maggie around to different sites, dropping the hook, and diving all week long. we didn't see any manta rays but the drop offs where awesome and the water was alive with a crazy amount of species. babs even got into the mix with her first underwater breathing lesson. how was it babs? it was awesome! i breathed underwater!
oh man. we have an andaman island diver. woo hoo! it's pretty sweet to learn how to dive there's like a volcano erupting in the background and there's like black sand. it was pretty cool. it was awesome and brady you're the best teacher in the world! so did you catch any fish? oh fuck we caught one. a small one. i threw it back though. it was like last last time. but we were killed by the tunas. i think it was tunas. i was untangling this shit because i catched one before and i reeled it all into the boat and then i'm doing that just sitting there it just hits brian. hits on the surface. big! really big fish.
and then i'm like poof and it hits me too. so i had one too. i bet you guys were so excited. look at this lure. look what it did to the lure. it just fucking snapped off. look at this. all of the three hooks on this one. take that shit off. this one has one hook left out of three, that one has none, and look at the bite marks. yeah frida check this out. big fucking tuna huh? it just destroyed that. it's just gone. well i don't know if it was tuna but most likely because they school. or it could have been mahi. gutted! i was really craving a tuna steak! yeah i know. it's coming close though. this is us getting our fishing game up. we get destroyed and we get our shit broken and we lose all these fish
and then we're like no more fucking around. now we're game motha fuckers! then we pull out the monster hooks and the fucking line and we yeah. it's almost there. we're slowly getting there. hey get the camera! what is it? i think that we got something. oh titties are out! titties are out! you girls are doing it so i thought i would do it. that's alright i got excellent blurring software. sweet. you got a fish? manskraft! victory? yeah! wooo hooo! i don't need to cook dinner. i don't need to cook dinner. you still need to cook mate!
you still need to cook it's just fish now. we'll make stir fry with the fish. if it's tuna let's do big tuna steaks. wooooaaa! look at that! what is that? that's a massive.... snapper! snapper. that's gonna be delicious! who caught it? the braidster. woooooohhhhh. which lure? on rashneesh the head wobbler. rashneesh the head wobbler. look at all these titties out! titties are out! it's at least two kilos.
fuck look at the teeth. do you guys feel victorious? yeah! it feels really good. did you just catch it just then? yeah just down here. we dragged it around for a while. wooo hoo! hey man nice job! fucking great! that's a big one. oh look at that guy. i think he's a massive snapper. i think we've come to the conclusion that it's a snapper. it's similiar to a red pacific snapper but it's indian ocean snapper obvioulsy. and we don't have any fish books on the indian ocean so... we're gonna call it an indian ocean snapper.
the problem is we really don't know what the fuck we're doing. we're real good like catching peligics like tuna and mahi and and taking care of those and filleting them but these guys with scales it's not what we're used to doing. so i thought- okay let's just skin it before we fillet it. i tried that bit. with smaller ones i know you can de-scale them by scraping the scales off. but i think we're gonna... we don't have a sharp enough knife. we're pretty.... ummm... what's the word? ill prepared. so this is the side we already did. i think we did okay.
yeah, we left the bones with a bit of meat but that's all bones. we're gonnna take this part too. there's some meat there. nice! what are you doing there babsie? cutting some lemons. cause brady and max caught a fish. we're pretty sure it's a snapper. of some sort. and we got some limes and some cous cous and some cooked veggies. mix it all together. it's gonna be a feast! i'm really hot. i just did some pilates. pilates?
gonna get the peachy butt! peachy butt. let's see. yeah it's coming! mate! we just spend the past 20 minutes talking about how good it is to make shit money but work in places that have food. yeah. like the sandwiches max was just describing me. yeah i worked in a cafe once. good stuff. good stuff. dude i just described to him a cuban sandwich. and i just counter described some sandwich with houlimi and roasted goodness. yeah. more importantly how's the fish. oh yeah. oh man!
it's looking pretty good man. what are you doing joshe? last dive tank fill. and then i'm gonna eat! thank you babs, thank you max, thank you brady! yeah. ummm. it's real good! me and max just woke up and we came out on the deck and the cockpit and it's all black everywhere cause of the lava. and it's worse than yesterday. look at that! so much stuff. and look at the windows.
it's all black. you can't see anything. wooow! can i get a comment? i can't see where we're going? oh man we gotta get out of here guys! everything has been destroyed by the volcano. and it's hot there's no wind and we can't sit outside. we can't open the hatches. aye ay aye! what do you think? yeah i think we need to go. during the night the breeze had shifted slightly just enough to blow the plume of volcanic ash directly onto delos instead of the other direction. we were having
fun with it though, and frida decided to do a little spontaneous volcano art. wow! alright! hey bro let's get the anchor up man. let's get the hell out of here. caues every time you clean something more ash just comes down. so we gotta get out, we gotta go to sea. where it's clean and there's no ash. alight! take 'em up anchor! the boat looks way cleaner though. oh look it's everywhere still. i know. this is what we're running away from. check it out! volcano! smell ya' later! up next! we explore the town of
myanbundar! set sail for interview island and have a crazy hot fishing streak! oh now you're coming in. look at that serious face. everyone looks like a vampire in this light. you look really freaky! look at brian up there. where's brian? brian's climbing the volcano to try and get our camera back. hey mountain man! are you filming my breasts? just throw those in there. titties out there! those are good boobs.
rip it up!!!!
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