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“Keskidi”. This French expression “Qu’est-ce qu’il dit? » meaning « what does he say ?” has been heard many times as some linguistic barriers appeared between English and French speakers. One can find there a genetical difference: the French would generally make round eyes and show a scared face, when the Brits would more likely purse down their lips and turn their hands upwards. “Dinghy Dinghy”. Those words were heard before each and every dive from Charlie waving his arms to ask his staff to get into the dinghy in order to bring us to the most adequate entry. Jason used to anticipate this war words 15 mn before Charlie, ie as soon as he was ready. They also were heard once when Robert has been told there was an infirmary on Surin Island where he rushed to find some care for his foot just when Charlie had scheduled our third dive, which brought one of the toughest arguments between them. “Don’t take ice cubes so often”. Some misunderstanding between Charlie and his crew led to an early loading of ice in the freezer. Therefore, Charlie was worried, I mean nervous, about its temperature increase each time one of us would go and take a few ice cubes. Hopefully for the fridge, we ran out of ice cubes by Wednesday at the same time as we ran out of whisky, rum and Ricard. “Slut”. One of the favourite after dinner occupations was playing cards. Jason and Justin know a lot of weird games whose rules are as sophisticated as cricket (ie too hard for French people). With his legendary patience, Jason however taught us how to play “king and slut”, a game with handicap where winners keep on winning, and losers remain desperately losers. The game results in a ranking where the first is the king, and the second the queen. More interestingly, the two last players generally compete like hell to reach the not too discreditable position of bastard and the dishonouring award of slut, which entitles among many cruelties to bring the beers for every body. Darin suffered from a couple of evenings being the slut most of the time, but he finally managed to secure a beautiful king position on the last session. “Whale shark”. Oh, by the way, let me clarify a controversy. Yes, Christian showed a picture of a whale shark, but he shot it from a book. Nobody ever saw a whale shark on this trip. We just dreamt of it. But never mind, manta rays, leopard sharks and all the rest were more than enough to make this liveaboard a spectacular experience.
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