Both Martha and I were eager to dive this morning
having called our dive yesterday. We packed the Jeep and headed to the beach. We geared up and got in the water by 6:24 am to begin our swim to the Yankee Clipper Jacks. We descended at 7:14 am, to find that we had missed the main body of the jacks. I thought that we would be more likely to get to where we wanted to be by swimming North along the reef and then East to find the Jacks, which is what we did.
Initially we swam along the Western edge of the reef but were soon joined by a pair of Gray Angelfish (Pomacanthus arcuatus) who were apparently headed in the same direction.
We encountered a juvenile Yellowtail Damselfish (Micropathodon chrysurus) 
a Yellowtail Snapper (Ocyurus chrysurus)
Bluestriped Grunt (Hamulon sciurus)
and a Cushion Sea Star (Oreaster reticulatus)
As I had hoped, we swam around the reef and came to the Jacks. Unfortunately, I did not fill Martha's tanks yesterday, so she began the dive with about 2500 psi and was getting low on air by 90 minutes. We surfaced inside the buoy lines. Martha had 300 psi left. We swam into the beach and each of us walked out of the water under our own power. Nice.
Our Dive time was 95 minutes at a maximum depth of 20.7 feet. My A/C was 21.59 psi/minute; my SAC was 14.84 psi/minute and my RMV was .38 cubic feet per minute.
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