The night was a long one again, when the wind died down at about 3am the boat was sideways to the waves part of the time and I had to get up, turn on the lights, and store things in the salon so that they wouldn’t bang and roll around. In the morning I decided to make it a diving day, with two trips to the little island called Île Créole in order to practice my bouyancy control and picture taking at easy depths of 10-20 feet. The pictures below show the results from two dives – each lasting an hour and with 2000 out of 3000 psi remaining in the tanks, I only stoped the dives when I realized that I was getting a bit chilled.
Filling the tanks went quickly and without effort, I ran the genset to make water, heat the water reservoir for a hot shower, boil some edamame on the stovetop, do a load in the dishwasher and charge the batteries while running the Bauer compressor.
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