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On Thursday, Oct 21, 2010 Matt was working as crew on the Deep Obsession so I invited some of my friend to come up diving with us. We did a 3 tank trip, and all 3 dives were great!

First dive we went to Shark Canyon…and as the name calls for we were delighted to get a reef shark to come play! And not just one shark but 4! The largest of the 4 sharks really liked Sierra and would do close swim bys, but she wasn’t scaried…but I think Curtis wasJust Kidding.

Second dive we did Juno Ledge. This site is in about 75 ft of water and has a pretty reef line. Captain Sean dropped us in the right place on the reef cause once we hit the reef four Goliath Groupers were out of their cave hanging out. But once we started blowing bubbles they rushed back into their cave…right when this happened a 4 ft nurse shark swam right into our group…so not to bad for the first 3 minutes our dive.  Following along this reef we ran into a big green moray and a huge hermit crab.

Third dive was on Toy Box…and I was secretly hoping to see that sailfish again this time my camera was ready! No sail fish…but we did see a huge ray and we came across the remains of a sea turtle. It was neat to see the bones but sad the animal is no longer alive.

After the dives we got back to the dock and Jim (boss man) needed Matt and I to help him take the Shearwater boat out to test out the auto pilot so we invited our friends along for a nice sunset cruise ending it with a single dolphin riding the bow as we pulled into dock.

Life is Good!

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On Sunday Oct 17, 2010 I took my friends out diving with me on the Deep Obsession. My cousin Lauren came up from Miami along with Mariano who was learning Nitrox that day with me. Mariano seems to think that 2 thumbs up is the “I am excited” signal but Lauren and I laughed because we kept thinking he wanted to go UP.

The first dive we did was Breakers Reef…it sits in about 55ft and it has a nice reef ledge. Second site was Toy Box which also sits in about 55 ft but this has a barge with lots of life on it. I found some sea turtle eggs that had hatched on the beach but got swept away to the ocean. We also saw lots of rays…and what I found interesting was in the sand you would find imprints of where a ray had been laying. So neat. Another wacky thing I saw was 2 scorpion fish were lock jaw-to-jaw with eachother like they were fighting…but they weren’t really moving. Kind of weird?

Clement, Jaime, and Sam also came up from Fort Lauderdale and joined me for the dives. Jaime was my good luck charm because we decided to come up early from the second dive because I had chewed through my month piece and on our way up we were granted the present of a sailfish that swam by us (~20 ft from us). However….I didn’t have my camera!!!!! Lauren did!!!! BUMMER!!!! Oh well…I saw it and thats all that counts!

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