Comments: great dive, great dive partner, great day, great seas. Met Mark as my dive buddy. His daughter was on this boatload of C-Card wannabes for their checkout dive. Mark is an awesome dive buddy; seams he used to be the sheriff's flotilla or something like that and had experience leaking out all over.

Our 'planned' dive was to let the girls lead and just sorta keep a watchful eye on the proceedings. Everything was going just fine and dandy until I almost found an anchor. Alison mentioned that if anybody found and anchor to let her know... Well I found an piece of rope floating up from the bottom rubble and I turned around for a minute to check it out (didn't seam to have an anchor attached) and by the time we turned back around the ladies were gone in the 15' VIZ. I know Mark was disappointed that we had 'lost' the girls. We looked around, but only found them on the surface, many yards down current.

Did see a nice juvenile blue angel (bright yellow) and the EyeSea worked just wonderfully. Mark noticed that one of the students dropped their weight belt at the surface so I volunteered to go and get it. WOW... picking up the extra weight really put my inflator hose to the test! Unfortunately I guess since I have my Suunto in P1 mode, it had me do ANOTHER 3 minute safety stop. Oh well, who am I to argue? Better safe that sorry.

WHAT WE LEARNED: Didn't catch me this time!!!! Alison tried to get me on the 'out of air' scenario and BANG! my primary was in front of her face in two shakes of a donkey's tail!