In the morning we started a bit earlier at 7:30pm. We were cruising slowly north through an area where dolphins had been spotted before, in the hopes that we could snorkel with some. We did see a few in front of the boat at one time, but they were bottle nose dolphins which are not known for liking to play with people like the spotted dolphins. Unfortunately we didn't see any, so we headed back south for a dive site.

About 2 hours later we arrived at Sugar Wreck. Everyone decided to get in a dive before lunch, so we suited up and jumped in. There was a bit of a current, which made it some work to swim to the wreck, but it was cool to see all of the fish in and around the remains of the wreck. We got some great pictures of lots of different fish!

Up on the boat after lunch we went through our Advanced Open Water coursework, then headed into the water to complete our 'wreck dive' specialty. We went with Matt and another passenger, Eddie. We looked around for a while and checked out a couple of rays and some barracuda. Fortunately the current had died down and it was very calm.

Later in the afternoon we did another dive. As we were getting into the water there was some weather on the horizon that looked like it was headed our way, but it looked like we had plenty of time to dive. Underwater we found that there was a little bit of current again. We swam into the current and checked out the site again. After about 40 minutes it seemed to be getting dark, so we headed back towards the boat. We started by swimming with the current, but quickly realized it had shifted! Swimming into the current we got back to the mooring line. At the surface we found that it was raining and the boat was swinging around in the changing current. We made our way back onto the boat, as did most of the other divers. After we were inside the storm picked up and we heard that the mooring line had just snapped. They had to send a skiff out to retrieve a couple of divers who were drifting away from the boat!

During dinner everyone thought that the night dive would be canceled due to the weather, but they announced that it would go on as planned, which was great news as this was to be our first night dive! Our instructor Matt rounded us up and we entered the water off the back of the boat, then swam around to the mooring line for our descent. Earlier in the day we weren't sure how we'd feel about diving at night, but it turned out to be like walking in the dark with a flashlight, not nearly as scary as we'd thought. We saw lots of fish, including a big ray with several small ones following close behind. We could shine our light around and see some barracuda in the distance, and we also saw lots of big puffer fish swimming around in the cracks and crevices of the wreck. Matt pointed out a huge turtle that was tucked under an overhang. After we got back on the boat we were both excited to have completed our first night dive with no problems.

We sat in the salon and had some popcorn while we talked about the dive before heading down to our cabin to get some sleep.