Had the great pleasure of diving with Brent and Capt. Glen of Bluewater Divers this weekend. We had a last minute change of plans which sent me scrambling for some diving with just a few days to go. Talked with Brent on the phone and he hooked us up with a double dip on the Duane Friday and a double on the Spiegel Grove on Saturday.
My two buddies and I were the only one's on the boat Friday and Brent and Glen gave us almost total freedom to dive how we wanted to. They hot-dropped us on the bow mooring line, we swam around the superstructure, hopped back past the stack to the crowsnest and drifted to the stern mooring line where Brent and Glen were waiting for us. Second dive was pretty much a copy of the first.
We had a full boat on saturday, a couple who were being guided by Brent, a couple who were diving on thier own, but my buddy and I were the only ones diving nitrox. We moored up an amidships mooring line and immediately opened the pool for my buddy and I early in the briefing. This left us with a nice nitrox dive, but didn't really hold up the air divers since Brent gave them a full briefing. We did a few swimthroughs on our first dive, then went up under the well deck and came back out to the cranes before ascending. On our second dive we spent most of it inside, including dropping down into the hold with the anchor winch, which was very cool.
All in all it was a great weekend. The staff at Bluewater were always professional, even through a couple trying situations and managed to give everyone onboard the trip they were expecting, even though we all had different expectations. I'd recommend them to anyone looking to dive Key Largo.
My two buddies and I were the only one's on the boat Friday and Brent and Glen gave us almost total freedom to dive how we wanted to. They hot-dropped us on the bow mooring line, we swam around the superstructure, hopped back past the stack to the crowsnest and drifted to the stern mooring line where Brent and Glen were waiting for us. Second dive was pretty much a copy of the first.
We had a full boat on saturday, a couple who were being guided by Brent, a couple who were diving on thier own, but my buddy and I were the only ones diving nitrox. We moored up an amidships mooring line and immediately opened the pool for my buddy and I early in the briefing. This left us with a nice nitrox dive, but didn't really hold up the air divers since Brent gave them a full briefing. We did a few swimthroughs on our first dive, then went up under the well deck and came back out to the cranes before ascending. On our second dive we spent most of it inside, including dropping down into the hold with the anchor winch, which was very cool.
All in all it was a great weekend. The staff at Bluewater were always professional, even through a couple trying situations and managed to give everyone onboard the trip they were expecting, even though we all had different expectations. I'd recommend them to anyone looking to dive Key Largo.
