4:49 pm 

We headed out again for another dive this morning at 7:30. Today, we dove first at the Big Grotto, which is a really cool dive site with a rock arch you can swim through to this rock enclosed area. You could think of it as a cave, but ceiling-less, open to the air and the elements. During this dive, I descended to the farthest I have ever gone at 65 feet. The only difference from being at 30 or 40 feet was that I got slightly heavier and had to add some air into my BCD. We saw some awesome fish on this dive including some really big, angel fish, trigger fish, and spade fish. We also got to see an eagle ray. 

For our second location, I changed into a new dry wetsuit because I had been getting pretty cold underwater, even though the water here is very warm. We had to wait a little while for the nitrogen levels in our blood to decrease before beginning our second dive. This time we dove at a wreck called the Kodiak Queen. The Kodiak Queen is a 180 foot boot that once served in WWII as a fuel vessel and managed to survive the bombings of Pearl Harbor. After that, it was used by two different companies as a fishing vessel before it came to be lying around picking up garbage. But instead of scraping it, they scrapped out the inside and sunk it to become an artificial reef. A massive sculpture of a kraken was built wrapping itself around the ship, but this was taken off by the hurricane. So we descended down to the boat which lies in about 60 feet of water. Near the boat, there were not as many fish as we were hoping. We then got to swim through different sections of the wreck. Although it was hollowed, in one room there was a table with a computer and telephone which was kind of eery, and in another, which I figured must have been the galley, there were two pots hanging from the ceiling. Swimming through the wreck gave me minor claustrophobia. It was difficult because your perception of how close something is is altered from the way light comes into the water. Exiting, I scraped my ankle on something and got two cuts on it. The whole experience was really cool though! 

Unfortunately we don't have any photos or anything because the go pro's buttons are held down by the pressure of the water past 25 feet and don't work. 

Hours today: 5

Hours total: 33.5