Into Her Chambers

So much diving this weekend!!!! First, with a group of people I met from other dive shops we went out to Cleo street in Laguna Beach. We found the Foss!!!!! It was magnificent and much more intact than I had imagined. The floorboards had eroded which allowed us to peer into the dark depths of her abdomen. It's a wonderful feeling to be interacting with a ship that went down over 50 years ago. That dive was altogether wonderfully productive. We found a jellyfish and an angel shark who just couldn't be provoked. I kept pulling on his tail fin but he wouldn't budge.

Then last night I went night diving with my friend Brewster. We went in at 4:45 and, in the dim dusk light, visited the arch at Shaw's cove. He had never seen it, and I had never been there at night. As it got darker, our lights illuminated the many cracks and chambers. Then we tried to follow the reef down, but ended up getting lost in the canyons. When we turned around, I realised that we were getting deeper as we were "returning" to shore. I signaled for us to go up, and when we reached the surface, shore was a good 1/3 of a mile away. Since it had become dark, we couldn't tell which cove we had come out of. Stupid me, I had planned to follow the reef out and back, completely underwater, and not get lost and come up. Maybe I should hold off on the Dive Master course? It turns out that the cove we swam into was indeed the cove from which we came. I need to hang around some experienced night divers so that they can show me the tricks of the trade. Strangely, that was my 60th dive, the one that allows me to finish the DM program.