Blackbeard's Day 2 Dives

The Next day began with a leisurely dive at the Pinnacle Wall.

Down to 101 feet.

Yep, it was time to go deep on some walls.

You can get deep real fast on a wall in the ocean.  You need to check your depth gauge as you easily lose track of how far down you're going,

Then we came up to around 65 feet for some cool coral swim-throughs.

 Some spots got kinda tight.

 

 But it was all fun. 

The dive lasted 25 minutes as you go through air faster at depth and at 100 feet one breath consumes the same amount of air of 4 breaths oat the surface. On an 80 cubic foot tank, that's not giving you a  lot of bottom time if you want to keep a reserve, not to mention your no deco limit is 20 minutes at that depth.

Then we had a snack and a surface interval and then went deep again.

Next was a dive to 107 feet on Whale Shark Wall for 27 minutes.

Saw some neat fish down there, but no whale sharks, as the site is named because someone allegedly saw Whale Sharks there. That would have been cool.

 

We also looked up and saw divers above us on the wall.

After the two deep dives we had an awesome lunch and moved on to the next site,  Madison Ave, a dive with a max depth for me of 40 feet to keep the nitrogen levels low, and a lot of fish,

Madison Ave lived up to its name and had lots and lots of fish in the area.

The night dive at Madison Avenue gave us not just a lot of fish but a heckuva surprise . . .