jadairiii
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Pulled the Suex xjoy14's out of the gear room and my buddies and I did a quick dive with Capt Conrad on the Miss Conduct in Pompano.
Great thing about Conrad is that he does not take you to the same spot every time, knows how to follow our torpedo float while we scooter and shuts the boat down on drops and pickups so there is absolutely no risk of injury due to the boat engaging.
He dropped us perfectly on the RSB-1 (with a current), we rolled, he handed us our scooters, we do a bubble check and still hit the wreck perfectly. Very few capt in South Florida can do that. We did a quick lap round the wreck then headed south to the reef to catch some bugs. Max depth on that deep ledge is about 120 in the sand, we were all on double alum 80's diving 30/30 trimix, nothing like a clear head to catch lobster. Within 20 min, we had 13 in the bag, turned the scooters west and hit the trigger. Rode them all the way to the second reef in 30' of water, passing sharks, sea turtles, schools of fish and all kinds of lost fishing gear and one more bug in about 60'. 72 min on the trigger and still surfaced with 1200 in our back gas, one of our guys was just getting cold, he gave the thumb and there is never a question, dive over.
Lots of laughs on the surface, who did what. Back at my office by 1 to get some work done.
Great thing about Conrad is that he does not take you to the same spot every time, knows how to follow our torpedo float while we scooter and shuts the boat down on drops and pickups so there is absolutely no risk of injury due to the boat engaging.
He dropped us perfectly on the RSB-1 (with a current), we rolled, he handed us our scooters, we do a bubble check and still hit the wreck perfectly. Very few capt in South Florida can do that. We did a quick lap round the wreck then headed south to the reef to catch some bugs. Max depth on that deep ledge is about 120 in the sand, we were all on double alum 80's diving 30/30 trimix, nothing like a clear head to catch lobster. Within 20 min, we had 13 in the bag, turned the scooters west and hit the trigger. Rode them all the way to the second reef in 30' of water, passing sharks, sea turtles, schools of fish and all kinds of lost fishing gear and one more bug in about 60'. 72 min on the trigger and still surfaced with 1200 in our back gas, one of our guys was just getting cold, he gave the thumb and there is never a question, dive over.
Lots of laughs on the surface, who did what. Back at my office by 1 to get some work done.