Out again today, 2 dives in Ixtapa. The dive group today consisted in 2 kids, two teenagers and an adult, all from Guatemala, yours truly and 2 instructors. One of the kids was doing his cert dives, so we had a group of 6 doing the dives together.
First we went to El Zacate, which I had dove on Tuesday. Less surge and less visibility, but I used for the first time a new Tusa Platinum mask, since the old Tusa Imprex gave me hell before... what a difference! Pure comfort, I really enjoyed myself and didn't have clear once in the 45 minute, 50' immersion.
The second dive of the day was La Caleta... vis was terrible and surge was heavy; we spent all dive getting lost and having to surface... I believe I was the most experienced diver in the group, which isn't much, and there was no way of getting in working pairs. The non-certifying kid had trouble equalizing and eventually aborted, I got the reg kicked out of my mouth and the surge had us bouncing all around the rocks, with the resulting cuts and bruised... after 40 minutes of ups and downs I called the dive and we surfaced for the last time.
My instabuddies had a glum face on the trip back, but hey, I learned a lot and found a mask I'm comfortable with. Plus, I had the chance to practice the essential skill of removing my wetsuit in the water