It was great meeting everyone, and I had a lot of fun.
Dan and I stayed and did a second dive, and I think we figured out how to enjoy the diving at Aurora more than I had on previous dives (however the plane was cool).
Rather then swim out to the area where the plane/platform, and all of the other divers were diving, we chose to start from the shore, and decend ASAP, and follow the bottom out to an area right (North) of the platform.
This proved to be a much more interesting dive, and the vis was 10' min with times that I could see the top of the water from 20+'. We found a ton of crawdads, and a toilet!!! In any event, I actually enjoyed the entire dive, and we mainly hung out at about 25' where the vis as about the best, the Dads were everywhere, and we hovered above their holes and chased them around. We both stayed off the bottom (very key) and the only silt was created by Dad's racing away from us as we got to close. You have to give credit to those creatures who upon approach boldly extend their claws, and got ready for battle (or maybe a it's a ruse).
In any event, after that last dive, I'm much more inclined to dive Aurora than after prior dives. Dan agreed that this was our best dive there.
Thanks to everyone who came out, and made the day enjoyable. Have fun in Roatan guys!!! I'll be thinking of you while I'm diving during the same period in FL.
We should plan another get together later in the summer, maybe Aug sometime. Next time we should likely call the Phantasea's DS's and see when they are scheduled to be out there in an ATTEMPT to avoid the 40 divers/students we ran into on this go around.
