No sea lions on my dives, but it was still a great day out.
As someone once pointed out, a bad day of diving is better than a good day at the office... and this day wasn't half bad!
Dive 1 was shortened due to buddy's weighting issues, no big deal, it happens. Dive #2 was great! Shame about the vis... the oil rigs are a lot easier to truly appreciate with at least 20' vis (or better yet, 40' +)... you can't really get the same perspective on the massive size with less than 10' of vis.
It actually opened up to almost 20' down around 100', but I was at the max MOD for the 34% I was diving, so I couldn't really check things out lower than that. Dive 2 I made it down to 113', and it was about the same, so we came back up to 80' or so. It really closed up above 80', though. It was cool to see the school of monster-sized Blacksmith, though! I've never seen them that big before!
Dive 3 was a disappointment... we made it down to the wreck, but between the vis and concern we were going to make everyone wait, we thumbed it, so I only got to see the wreck for a couple of minutes... perhaps 10' or so of it, which seems like a lot when you can only see 2' worth at a time! If I had known how long we were going to stay in that spot, though, I definitely would have done the dive, poor vis or not. Looked like a neat wreck, I wouldn't mind hitting it sometime in better conditions.
