We tried to dive outside at Shacks yesterday with four inexperienced divers. It was pretty rough and wavy and visibility was terrible following a couple of torrential downpours Thursday night. We all swam out to Blue Hole where we decided it wasn't safe to continue, that with the poor visibility it would be very difficult to stay together. At some of our dive sites - Crashboat or Natural, for example - if the group gets separated, it pretty easy to surface and find your way back to shore. The outside at Shacks isn't like that. If you're on the outside and don't know the very specific ways back in, you're in trouble. So we abandoned that dive and swam back in, .
Because it was Friday morning and I had to be ready to open Ola Lola's, my time and options were limited. Instead of diving I came back and cut grass. Darryl and the others went to Natural and Crashboat and had two great dives with 60 - 70 foot visibility. Sometimes Mother Ocean just plays with your head.
My next shot at diving will probably be Monday. Here's hoping for cleaner waters.
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