Tuesday, January 4, 2011
I weighed anchor at about 08:30 and Rob joined me for the short motor over to Leverick Bay, where we picked up Michael and Pamela, already attired in their wet-suits, and got a tank of air and proceeded across to the mooring field on Prickly Pear. We picked up the mooring that Michael thought was the correct one, as it was beside his marker buoy. He then dove on his marker in order to tie a sturdier line on it but it turns out that the buoy was no longer attached to anything and was being held in place by the weight of the line; it had been drifting around the field for a day and no longer marked anything. The light wasn’t great and the current made for murky conditions so Michael spent a good time looking for the dinghy with no luck. We then took another mooring, one that Michael and Rob were certain was the correct one, and Michael dove again. After a total of an hour bottom time (30-40 feet) he was back on the boat with no dinghy, but some assorted pirate treasure from the bottom. As he was low on air we decided to call it a day and return the next day with two tanks and that I’d dive as well.
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