The best diving near Puerto Galera in the Philippines is at Verde Island and the best dive site on Verde Island is the Pinnacles.  We liked it so much our first day we immediately booked a boat for the next day to go back.  There were 12 divers on the boat and we had two dive masters.  The boat had a captain and one crew member.  When we came up from the first dive the sea had become very rough and the boat was only a few yards from the rocks.

We grabbed the line off the stern of the boat and tried to get on board.  The captain had to stay at the helm and the crewman was busy not getting washed out of the well.  Both dive masters were in the water keeping the divers on the line away from the prop and the rocks.  Gene, Howard and I were the first ones on the boat and we turned around and started pulling the others into the boat some of them in all of their gear.

It was quite an adrenaline rush.  No one was hurt, Chris Huss took some great photos and then we went somewhere calmer for the next dive.

Howard dubbed us the “Dive Militia”.  A self organizing group of citizen who help out when necessary.