lmorin
Contributor
Lots of times you have to trust the captain. In the Keys last March, the wind was pretty robust from the east and very few boats were going out. We usually dive with Horizon Divers. The combination of wind speed and the 8-10 ft seas were right at the Dive Op's limit of acceptability for their big boat and too much for the smaller one. The captain said he'd find us someplace decent to dive. Sure enough, the furthest buoy on Molasses was going way up, then way down, but the surge was both predictable and manageable. Vis was not great, but it wasn't horrible either. Four divers (on a boat that holds about 25) had a great dive that day, right along with a massive, heavily barnacled, old-guy-of-the-sea turtle who was waiting for us right under the boat.