A new record of 1.5 billion divers were at the bridge on Sunday 17 July! Yes, that is approximately one fourth of the earth's population. Dive flag manufacturers are making a bundle as divers comply with the dive flag regulation. However, given the fact that a diver is supposed to be no more than 100' from a flag in intracoastal waters, and the fact that there were 5,581,546 flags under the bridge, there was never a time ANY diver was more than 3.5cm from a dive flag or entangled in a dive flag line. I overheard some divers discussing a lobbying effort to get traffic lights installed between the pilings. At the least we certainly could have used some right-of-way guidelines. The "before divers" vis was about fifteen feet. The "peak divers" and "after divers" vis was about one to two feet. I had to chuckle thinking about those who are so concerned about students keeping their fins off the bottom. They should have been there; they could have lectured the photographers who lie on top of anything to get the picture and the "experienced" divers who haven't the slightest idea that they are leaving a dust trail similar to that of a stampeding buffalon herd. It's pretty funny. Water temperature was eighty-four. Some tempers (not mine) were much warmer. You have to laugh. Get in the water (anyway), Ham
