Homophones Practice 3

Since the _______ was clear, my cousin and I went to the ocean.

We decided to _______ a ship that was headed to deep waters.

We brought all our diving gear onto the boat and set _______ for adventure.

The captain steered us into a large _______ and I almost fell off the boat.

We crossed the _______ off the port and headed for the open sea.

The old wooden _______ from which we departed faded into a speck on the horizon.

Our Captain used to be a _______ in the navy.

He was discharged for hornswoggling, so now he is no longer a _______ man.

My cousin still said, "_______, Captain!" every time the man spoke to us.

After the anchor was _______ into the water, my cousin and I put on our diving gear.

We both said, "_______ up!" at the same time and jumped into the ocean.

Our gear became a lot lighter and easier to _______ once we got in the water.

The waters were peaceful as we began our _______ to the seafloor.

Then we _______ a coral reef, we saw a tiger shark.

My first thought was that we should _______ but there was no going back.

Our air hoses would get tangled in the reef, so we had to keep moving _______.

The tiger shark swam by us and we were happy to have _______ him.

"Wow, I hope we don't run into a _______ next," said my cousin.

Of course the next thing we saw was the _______ of a very large creature.

My cousin and I both _______ at what it was, but we had no idea.

When we got closer, we saw that it was a manta _______ tail.

The manta swam _______ the coral reef when we got closer.

Then my cousin tried to _______ me that we needed to get back to the surface.

"We're going to run out of _______!" he said.

"I'll never run out of errors," I said jokingly, "so I hope you know _______ way to go."