I was snorkeling and spear fishing one day at Subic Bay in the Philippines. I went down between two rocks to spear a fish, missed, and surfaced to reload. As I was reloading I saw a shark, at least as big as me, swim between the two rocks where I had just been. I set a speed record swimming right up onto the beach. It was probably 6 years before i went in the water again.

While in Thailand I was a dog handler and spent the night sneaking around the jungle looking for bad guys. One night, while in extremely thick jungle grass, my dog stopped, but did not alert. I slowly made my way up to my dogs head but could see nothing. By the way, I had learned some time earlier to always trust my dog, but thats another story. I flipped on my flashlight for a split second and saw that my dog had stopped because of a stream with steep banks. However, there were also two banded kraits swimming upstream in the water. That was scary enough. The scarier part was that I still had a lot more jungle to work my way through.

Lots more Thailand stories of cobras, pythons, kraits, vipers, and bad guys, but its time to go to bed.