I rose early today, the wind had died completely and the boat lay sideways to the occasional wave and would cause some rolling and creaking which was just loud enough to get me to wake. I played around with PhotoShop® to look at and edit the previous day’s pictures and made a leisurely breakfast before cleaning up the cabin (my previous day’s task which had been left undone) and getting underway.
I opted to stay put today and finally replace the broken salinity probe on the Spectra watermaker, after doing another dive or two.
The two dives were awesome, I can’t think of another site which offers so much, at least with the unseasonably calm conditions that are present today. I decided to switch lens housing and put on the wide-angle lens for the first dive and was rewarded by very clear water that favoured making long-distance shots (long-distance underwater means more than 5 or 6 feet). After taking a break from the first dive I went in again with the same camera configuration but somehow, perhaps due to the angle of the sun, the visibility wasn’t quite as good but I got some great images nonetheless. I’d decided to venture further around the rock but somehow it went too easily until I realized that there was a good current that was assisting me and would make returning a bit difficult so I turned around early and made it back to my dinghy with plenty of air left.
Back on the boat I thought I’d quickly replace the defective salinity probe on the Spectra Newport watermaker but the terms “quickly” and “repair” usually only appear in the same sentence with the word “not”; but I did manage to complete the repair just as the sun was setting.
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