Cozumel Day 2

I dedicate today to the Queen Angelfish, she is my favorite fish at the moment, but her angel powers did not help me today. What was our most amazing day of diving yet, turned sour when looking at my video from this mornings dives. I missed what I can only describe as the coolest 30 seconds of diving yet, a sea turtle was feeding and was surrounded by Queen Angelfish, my heart was racing as I was witnessing this, it was beautiful! That moment is now forever ruined because what I didn't realized until I got back to the hotel, I actually stopped the recording when I thought I started it, missing everything, yet capturing an amazingly horrible piece of footage as it recorded while dangling beneath me.

I am totally pissed at myself for missing what I'm sure would have been the treasured footage of the trip. To make matters worse, Becca is having ear problems. We called off the afternoon dive today because she was in that much pain and thought it best for her to rest it. So, that's what we are doing tonight, rest and recovery. Hopefully tomorrow brings better days.

The first dive of the day took me down to 78 ft (Becca hit 79, she always has to beat me). It was a gorgeous dive through coral caves and walls. The downside was for as many divers in our group, let alone other dive boats, it was too much action for such a confined space. It would have been a spectacular dive had it only been a small group. I did get the turtle footage in my preview clip, so I have to be happy with that (though the one I missed was a hundred times more impressive).

The second dive was my most favorite dive to date. It was a shallower dive, maybe 55 ft, but the current was very strong and required almost no work. I suppose one negative was if you saw something cool, you didn't have much time to enjoy it. The variety of both the coral formations and the abundance of fish, it also happened to feature my sea turtle that I missed. In my preview clip there is a short clip towards the end where the world goes zooming by with little or no visible fish, this is what the current was like.

One other noteworthy occurrence from today, our boat got pulled over by the Mexican version of the DNR. I like the bribes down here, two bottles of Coke (the drink, not even the power), and they left us alone.