Dive: 89
Belize Dive: 10
Date: 12/4/15
Site: Boca del Rio
Avg/Max Depth: 51/95
Temp: 82
TBT/CBT: 0:49/73:56
Weight: 16 lbs
Buddies: Curtis, Kristen

Dive: 79
Belize Dive: 13
Date: 12/7/12
Site: Boca del Rio
Avg/Max Depth: 48/87
Temp: 81
TBT/CBT: 0:51/65:10
Buddies: Nick, Curtis, Kristen

I didn’t plan on doing two dives today, but Rudy twisted my arm. And boy am I glad he did!

After seeing Curtis manhandle a shark, I decided it was something I wanted to try. I was trying to stay where they were swimming, which was a bit deeper than I wanted to be. They always look closer than they actually are, so I didn’t so much as touch one. I wasn’t paying attention to my computer and ended up going into deco for the first time. Seriously? I hear everyone else’s computers beeping at them. A little warning would have been nice.

It had me ascend to about 30 feet, which sucked because it was too far up to get a good look at anything. I hung there for at least 5 minutes. Once my timer was up, everyone else was ascending, so I went right into my safety stop.

The good news is that, because I was so close to the surface, I was that much closer when THE DOLPHINS came to play!!1! I didn’t have my camera, which was bittersweet. I was close enough to have gotten some good photos, but it was nice to watch them without distraction.

It was a fantastic way to end the dives here on beautiful Ambergris Caye.

Dive: 67
Belize Dive: 1
Date: 12/1/12
Site: Boca del Rio
Avg/Max Depth: 62/94
Temp: 81
TBT/CBT: 0:45/55:11
Buddies: Nick, Curtis, Kristen

The first dive of the trip went off without a hitch. We saw some sharks, a sea turtle, and a couple of Lizardfish, which are apparently pretty rare. I’m pretty sure they are all over the place, just well camouflaged. They remind me of those autostereograms that were popular in the ’90s, because Rudy kept trying to point them out to me, and just when I was about to give up, BOOM! There they were.

Oh yeah, we’re diving with Rudy again. It was nice because he and Martin picked us up at our dock and brought us right to the site. No unnecessary time spent filling out paper work or sitting through dive briefings. There were no other divers today, so that was nice as well. No other divers = no dumbheadedness.

I always forget how much I despise safety stops until I’m stuck doing one. Three minutes has never felt as long as when I’m suspended in 15 feet of water. I’m always fine while diving, but for some reason I struggle with my buoyancy and keeping my head above my feet while doing the stops.

Here’s Nick looking all serene. Or maybe he’s just sad because we didn’t see any lionfish.

View all of my photos from Poca del Rio below.

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