One shark, two sharks, three hundred....

[Christi]

Sounds great can't wait to see more pics, see video, hear more, more, more!

All I have to say is that you are going to be in total sensory overload and I would LOVE to go back!!

Don't plan on getting any sun...unless you're really lucky We had one afternoon of sunin 10 days.

As I said...photography was frustrating...but this stuff will be etched in your memory forever I'm sure. I'm still having "floating with the hammerhead" dreams...haha! The reports and photos cannot come close to doing the trip justice.

Something I thought was very cool is that the Aggressor and the Hunter communicated daily about which sites the other wanted to dive each day so that we didn't all end up at the same place. They also overlap their schedules a bit so there are times when the Hunter is the only boat out there and vice-versa.

The crossing wasn't much fun even with our great group, we had a few that didn't do so well and had to stay in bed for the whole crossing...which I did my fair share of as well. Our DM said the week before us was really flat...and our week was about as bad as it gets. I wore a scop patch on the way out and back...and did fine.

Martin, if you have any specific questions about the trip at all, e-mail me...oh, you may already knowt this, but marine park fees and dive tax are big at $35 per dive day, cash only..."no cash, no splash." They take your passport and c-card the first day, and you get it back when you pay at the end of the week. The park rangers actually board the boat one day and collect money, stamp your passport and give you receipts for each dive day.

 

[Jason Ooi]

Awesome...you are so lucky

 

[Christi]

WOW! You may think the picture is bad quality but it gets the point across!

Thanks...the truth is that this picture doesn't even REALLY get the point across...mutiply what you see in this shot by 10...there were times I would look up and it was solid hammers with just cracks of light coming in.

 

[ScubaTexan]

Awesome pictures, Christi, but there is a question that is burning on my mind....

Did you hit 2,000 dives on the trip??

 

[ckofabq]

News Flash: "Cozumel dive op reports hundreds of neglected hammerheads- and sea urchins that shoot quills off Cocos. Doctors provide emergency treatment while lawyers rush to file suit."

(See why I had to get out of the business?)

 

[Jason Ooi]

Nice pic

Another teaser...bad quality...but it will give you a glimpse of what we saw...

 

[Christi]

News Flash: "Cozumel dive op reports hundreds of neglected hammerheads- and sea urchins that shoot quills off Cocos. Doctors provide emergency treatment while lawyers rush to file suit."

(See why I had to get out of the business?)

HAHA! That was cute!


Texan...that's affirmative

NOW I am REALLY looking forward to a good night's sleep in my OWN bed Sweet hammer dreams

 

[ScubaTexan]

Congratulations!!!

:wave-smil

 

[NadMat]

2000 dives, now I'm really jealous

So if dive #100 is the dive nekkid dive what is the custom for #1000 and 2000?

I got a ways to go before I get to even 1000, much less two, but interested in what to do to beat diving nekkid on 100.

Congrats on hitting 2k Christi. And on your vacation. I often enjoy my work, but still need my vacations too. Anything that you 'have' to do becomes work, even fun things like scuba or playing video.

 

[fishoutawater]

Hey Christi,
Doesn't Cozumel have its own population of Hammerheads?
I haven't been there since '91, but I distinctly remember my assigned dive buddy grabbing my fin to get my attention. He pointed towards the surface, I looked up, and there were about forty or fifty of them all swimming the same direction in a school formation. I wanted real bad to go up to them, but we were at about 90 feet, and they looked to be at the surface. I took a couple pictures with my cheapo Ikelite disposable camera housing, but they didn't come out at all.