Cozumel Day 6

This whole trip had one hidden goal of getting to go dive deep. I'm not sure why I find irony so much fun, but keep that in mind as you read about the day. The day of dives getting called off on Day 3 pretty much put an end to all hope of getting the dive I was really looking forward to on this trip. As it turned out, even though I gave up all hope of getting the signature dive of Cozumel in, we came within a few dive lights of being able to do the dive. As it turned out, a couple of the less experienced divers decided to take Friday off and left us with an experience group of divers. Our guide attempted to convince the charter to take us to The Devil's Throat, but the only way that they would is if each diver had a dive light. As it turns out, Becca and I were both ready to go because we had our lights with us from the night dive the previous day, but nobody else had theirs.

As it turned out our last day of diving did take us to a deep wall dive. When I asked the Dive Master the important "How deep is our limit?" question in the hopes that I'd at least be able to break into triple digits, he answered "3000 ft if you want". Not exactly the answer I was looking for, but it told me that there was a good chance I'd be able to at least leave Cozumel with a 100 ft dive, which makes missing the signature dive much easier to take.

This picture is my computer as I hit 100 ft. I'm actually at 104 at this moment, but my computer was freaking out because I had my max dept set for 100. As it turns out I hit 107 and I was very happy with that number. Well, that was until I saw a school of fish and began video taping and although I felt myself drifting down, I thought I had gone up and it wasn't a big deal. When I stopped filming and looked at my computer I was shocked to see it saying I hit 117! Whoops! The rest of the dive I felt really guilty for being naughty and dropping down that deep, so I tried to stay much more shallow the rest of the dive. I think I spent the entire rest of the dive about 10 to 15 feet above Becca. As it turned out, she could read my computer as I dipped down and she gracefully matched me, so we'd have the same record.

The last dive of the trip also turned into the shallowest dive, a whopping 32 ft was the max dept. This whole trip, I was most excited about getting to dive deeper then I had gone before. The irony of this trip, turns out the shallowest dives were the best dives! The reef and coral of this dive made it feel like we were the first people to dive here. If it's possible, it seemed like this place had the new reef smell on it, it was that pristine!

Sad to leave, but left with fifteen dives in and a total of thirteen hours underwater, so I'd say a successful trip!