If it's one thing I learned from having our Day 3 canceled, it was even though I'm on vacation, don't assume you can get dives in. I passed on two afternoon dives because I was being lazy, then lost two dives with Day 3 getting canceled, so by this time I was worried that I was missing chances to dive and I wasn't going to miss any more. So, Day 5 was doing every dive I could. I did the two scheduled boat dives, did the afternoon dive, and also did the night dive! Out of the 24 hours of Day 5, I was underwater for 3 hours and 45 minutes!
The first dive of the day was a wreck dive, called C-53. It was a fun dive, but it probably was my least favorite of the whole trip. Now, it was my first wreck dive, which was cool, but it also feels fake because for one thing the cargo ship was sunk on purpose and the other reason is the water is so clear it just didn't seem real to me. Oh and lets not forget the 40+ divers all in the water exploring it at the same time, it reminded me of looking in the aquarium with the bubbles coming from the treasure chest only this time everywhere you looked there were bubbles coming up from the ship. I would have much rather did this dive with only our group, instead both our dive boats did it at the same time. Towards the end of the dive, I did get a very evil look from Becca as she noticed that I used much more air then her effectively shortening her dive.
Second dive is a blank - Fix this (need to go check my video to see if anything interesting happened)
The third dive of the day, I went solo. My dive buddy was out of action with her ears, being the true friend that I am, I left her on the beach and went out without her. I'll share the video with her, so it's almost like we both went, without having to carry her gear or get wet, plus she got to drink on the beach (I don't feel too guilty). It was a small group for the afternoon dive. I think everybody was starting to get tired and water logged, so only three other people from our group went our two guides, one other guy and myself. I'm always getting teased for how much air I use while diving from my real dive buddy, plus getting the evil eye earlier in the day, I was all about being good on air. This dive with the two guides, who are very experienced divers and one seems to gills and doesn't even need air, I concentrated hard on my breathing to conserve air. I ended the dive cutting my air consumption in half! I still think it was a fluke, but in addition to really trying to control my breathing, I also made sure to let the current do all the work. In the end, it allowed for 66 minutes of dive time and the only reason we came up was we ran out of things to see. This really turned into a fun dive with us about four wide at all times searching about three to four feet off the bottom for small treasures. Found a couple of flounders and the highlight of the dive was a seahorse.
The last dive of the night was another night dive. This time I decided to leave the video camera in the room and get a dive in without worrying about capturing the moment and wanted to take everything in my own internal video camera. I think it turned out well because we didn't get as lucky as the previous night dive, but we still saw some eels, octopus, and a few crabs and it was fun just trying to hunt for things without dragging the camera around. Becca did take the small camera just in case we saw something really amazing.
At the end of the day, I know I was asleep about thirty seconds after my head hit the pillow!
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