8:33 pm
Today, we were off again at 7:30 for our dive. We planned on diving a two tank dive at the wreck of the RMS Rhone. The dive is super cool because the wreck lays just as the boat went down, it was not a ship sunken for a dive site. However, when we got there, the current was too strong and we had to then drive to another dive site. So instead we first dove the Fearless, which is another boat that was sunken to create an artificial reef. For some reason, during this dive, I was going through my air tank really fast. Normally, I am surfacing around 1000 psi of air, but today I was already down to 500 by the time I even got back to the mooring line at the boat. By the time I had done a 3 minute safety stop (for nitrogen decompression) and made it to the surface, I only had 300 psi left, which made me extremely uneasy. We then headed back to the Rhone, where the current had by then decreased. Unfortunately, we only had time to dive the stern sections of the wreck, because it would take a second tank to go down again to the bow. I was bummed because you actually get to swim through the bow, while the stern is super blown out. There is the captain's teaspoon lying in the wreck and one whole porthole that every diver rubs in a circle with their fingers. You can also find a section of tiles from the galley in the wreckage. This was all super cool! Plus, we got to see a reef shark and some very tiny trunkfish! Because of all the time going back and forth to dive sites, our diving took much longer than other days and we didn't finish until 2 today.

Hours today: 6.5
Hours total: 45

Wreck of the Rhone

A teenage trunkfish (my fav fish) but I'm on the search for a baby


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