After a trip to upstate New York it was good to get back into the water with a bridge dive. All the rain, or the northeast wind and swell, or whatever else can make the vis short, is making the vis short. Before entering the water at just before slack high tide I asked a couple of exiting divers how the vis was. They replied, "Twenty-five feet or almost infinite!" I thought, "Incredible". What the two divers said was, in fact, unbelieveable, because they could not be believed; the vis was ten feet at best. I think they were New Jersey wreck divers or Florida west coast muck divers who thought they had died and gone to heaven in ten feet of vis. Anyway, the water was at least warm at eighty-four degrees, and it was a great day to test my compass skills as we located the four wrecks off the beach by compass bearings. Despite what we might consider marginal conditions, our Discover Scuba students from Switzerland were happy with a sixty-three minute bottom time and lots of critters up close (no way else to see them!) Get in the water (even if the conditions aren't what you ordered), Ham
