Jamie is an athletic young guy who lives with family just up the road from my apartment. Paul Albert met him at some bar and got my number to give to him. We have been going over the classroom material and suffered through a couple of pool sessions last week. His German girlfriend, Fine, is in town and has asked to make this dive with us.
The ocean was flat, but there was a strong South surface current and an even stronger South current on the bottom. We struggled, especially Fine, who was underweighted. Jamie, in contrast, seemed heavy.
We descended just past the sand bar and then stayed on the bottom as we slowly made our way to the beginning of the reef, where we turned back. Jamie was at 1500 psi when we turned, but Fine must have been well under that. She came up well before the beach with 700 psi. I sucked down air way too fast, as well, fighting the current, but I still had almost 2000 psi when we got to the truck.
We did see a turtle, but no camera means no pictures. Boo.
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