Friday, 21 June 2019 Martha and I return to the Yankee Clipper Jack

Martha and I left the apartment at 6:40 am and got to the beach by 6:05 am.  We geared up and got in the water at 7:20 am then swam to the Three Tiered Reef. I spotted a single Jack to the North but that was the only Jack I saw. We descended at 7:45 am but did not see any other Jacks. We had been on our 100-degree
bearing holding the parking lot lamp just South of the red Chimney on the Fire Station on the other side of A1A. We swam South but found rubbled reef not the Jacks, so we turned and swam North. This time we found the two single Jacks that Martha had found on an earlier dive and then we found the Jacks.








Early in the dive I found a Gaudy Nautica and Martha found a very large Cowry shell. We saw a lot of the usual Grunts and Snappers on the Jacks, but Martha also spotted a baby flounder (below) and a Spotted Cyphoma (left).

























We each swam with schools of Palometa (Trachinotus goodei).

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We also saw a Green Maray Eel (Gymnothorax funebris).


The water temperature was 80.6 degrees but there were currents that were much colder. Still managed to make a 121-minute dive to a maximum of 25.3 feet. My SAC was 15.31 psi/minute and my RMV was 0.39 cubic foot per minute.