Martha and I left the apartment at 6:35 am and got to the beach by 6:45 am. We geared up and were in the water at 7:00 am swimming to the buoy line and descending at 7:19 am just North of the buoy pin. We headed East to the Wrap Around Ledge then East to the Rock Line where we turned North to the tire. From the Tire we went East to the Crescent Moon Rock and then up on the rubble swimming North to the Staghorn Coral. We swam along with a small group of Porkfish (Anisotremus virginicus).
We found some staghorn coral, but not the patch we wanted. I did get this nice picture of a Bluestriped Grunt (Hamulon sciurus).
The current likely took us farther North than we needed to go. I started swimming more East than North. The area was interesting, but not what we were looking for. After another ten minutes I went to the surface and we were well North of the Mayan Hotel.
Found some bigger coral heads and this Queen Angelfish (Holacanthus ciliaris) but they were probably North of the Swiss Cheese Reef.
We decided to head South and finally ran into some familiar territory. We were East of the Swiss Cheese Reef and almost to its Southern end. Indeed, we swam to the West and found the Sectioned Rock.
We continued West and found the Staghorn Coral and this Spotfin Butterflyfish (Chaetodon ocellatus). Then we headed SW and got to the sand flat and found the Crescent Moon Rock. From there it was an easy swim in to the beach.
Got this picture of a Spotted Goatfish (Pseudupeneus maculatus) on the sand.
We surfaced in 8 feet of water and heard thunder from a dark cloud bank to the North. We hurried to make our way to the Jeep.
Our dive time was 107 minutes at a maximum depth of 18.6 feet. My AC was 23.07 psi/minute; my SAC was 15.86 psi/minute and my RMV was
.41 cubic feet per minute.
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