Today's dive was a repeat of yesterday. We got up around 5:00 am. I worked on the dive pictures from yesterday and took Mia for a short walk. Martha and I left the apartment a little after 7:00 am. We geared up and walked to the beach about 7:40 am, got in the surf and swam East from the first berm to the vessel exclusion line where we descended at 7:53 am. Again, we were right on the buoy pin and chain, as a friendly Red Grouper (Epinephelus morio) would confirm.
The water was clearer but also a little cooler than yesterday. Like our dive yesterday, we headed East over the blocks to the Lip of the Wrap Around Ledge; East over the rubble to the Rock Line and North on the Rock Line to the tire. We then headed East again to the Crescent Moon Rock and over the Rubble. Martha found a rather large Gaudy Nautica in the sand before the rubble.
Unlike yesterday, though, when we headed NE we actually came to the tip of the staghorn coral. I got several photographs of Graysbys (Cephalopholis cruentatus) above and to the right
and a few shots of the Juvenile Porkfish (Anisotremus virginicus) below.
From the Staghorn Coral, we headed due East over the Swiss Cheese Reef and onto the sand flat.
At 1500 psi we turned the dive and came WSW towards the beach. Martha spotted a Peacock Flounder (Bothus lunatus) well camouflaged on the sand. She pointed it out to me and I follow it then lost it then followed it again to get some photographs.
Finally, Martha spotted a Lionfish (Pterois volitans) on the Eastern edge of the Wrap Around Ledge. After photographing the Lionfish, we swam West and surfaced at 9:41 am. Our dive time was 108 minutes with a maximum depth of 23.8 feet. My Actual Consumption rate was 24.04 psi/minute; the Surface Air Consumption rate was 15.86 psi/minute and the Residual Minute Volume was 0.41 cubic feet/minute. We exited the water without incident but I did manage to put my dive vest on the roof of the Jeep and to lose it as we drove off.
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