Dive Report 15 March

Gorgeous day at the bridge! I "worked" with an open water student as Carrie and Michele played for a bottom time of 1:16. The temperature was seventy-three and the vis was 10' to 15' depending on how close one was to the 3,967,543 students in the water on the beautiful Sunday late morning. Michele was testing her new Jet Fins and was amazed at how hard she had to work to make any progress until she realized that a fishing line was attached to her fin strap. Carrie unhooked her; good reason to dive with a buddy! They saw sailfin blennies (Michele has published video below), a polkadot batfish, a juvenile gray angelfish cleaning a spadefish (it is an established cleaning area at the second set of pilings out from the beach), and a sea hare. Even going through the skill sets my student and I saw an octopus out of its hole and a juvenile bandtail searobin about two inches long. In the eighty-degree air temperature with a comfortable southerly breeze we finished our dive day with a picnic at a table in the shade overlooking the Intracoastal. It doesn't get much better. Please save Sunday, March 29 (high tide 10:51) for a picnic at the bridge with the Jupiter Drift Divers. We'll have all the picnic classics: hotdogs, hamburgers, salads, etc. Plan on arriving a little early for easy parking; a nice day brings many people to the Park. Get in the water, Ham