09 Cruise Part 2

This represents the evening after Key West, the day at sea, and my diving in Grand Cayman.

View from the ship.

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Approaching the “Wall” dropoff in Grand Cayman with Mark my insta-buddy. It goes from 80 feet and drops down to around 2400 feet. Mark is from Illonois and was a great guy to dive with.

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One of the coolest parts of the trip. A sea turtle that sat there eating coral and letting us take pictures of him. I was about 6 feet away from him.

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Video of a yellow fish that was swimming around me. I was going to just delete this one but it’s funny hearing me repeatedly click the zoom out button which decided to not work. I had to take it out of video mode first to zoom back out.

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Second try of the yellow fish. Pretty cool this time.

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Video showing the fingers of sand between the coral beds. Neat how the coral grows like that.

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Swim-through following Mark. Normally with an advanced cert you never enter an overhead environment but people tend to overlook it a little for stuff like this (though I don’t recommend doing so). You can see me totally screw up my buoyancy at the end from paying too much attention to the camera.

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Just scuba’in along with Mark.

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A sea fan coral waving in the current “breeze.”

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A fairly large fish trying to eat stuff off the bottom. I think that’s what it’s doing anyway.

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So if I try to give descriptions of every picture I’ll never get this done, so here’s just a quick gallery view of everything with some comments. I’ll add more as I get more time and people ask me what different pictures are of.