Well, after getting the truck loaded and heading down the road to Panama City, we met up with Steve again for the days diving.
These three intrepid divers managed to charter an entire 16 passenger boat for their use and made good use of the space aboard, to spread out and get comfy. Making good use of the dive briefings made by both the Dive Master (Kelly) and our Captain (John) of Better Bottom Time charters, and demonstrating much skill and dexterity leaving the boat, we made our way down to the remains of a vessel used for salvage training, the Strength.
After a good 30 minute dive there we headed over to the next site, a scuttled hovercraft hull. While we finished off our surface interval, our Dive Master headed over the side to tie the boat in and have a bit of a dive of her own. Upon her return 10 min. later she handed up a stringer of 9 flounder she had just speared on her short trip.
After giving us the run down on this dive and where we should be able to find some flounder for Steve to have at, we headed down the line and proceeded on our dive. Well, the 20 min dive went well and only 1 flounder was mildly aggravated for all of Steve's efforts.
After we re boarded the boat, the "Flounder Pounder" headed back down to untie and fill the rest of the limit for the day. Returning around 15 minutes later, and capturing another 11 flounder.
A great diving day was had by all and after our host graciously divided up the catch, we scheduled another day of diving for the 21 Feb.
Well on 21 Feb after waking to cloudy skies and reports of thunder and lightning we had to cancel our days diving.
That should do it for the dive blogging, see all y'all when we get back
1 comment:
Great blog! Sounds like a lot of fun has been had by one and all. You can almost feel the sunshine in your picture....
Have a safe journey back.
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