The boat traveled through the night, mooring at Theo's Wreck. It's a 260 foot ship that was deliberately sunk about 21 years ago to form an artificial reef in about 100 feet of water. After mentioning to the captain that we didn't have an instructor for our 'Deep Dive' requirement, he said we should wait a second and before we knew it, Matt started putting on his wetsuit and said "Let's Go Dive!". Funny how the captain can make things happen!

We descended down the mooring line to 100 feet, where we could see the ship which was lying on it's side, in very good condition. We did a little experiment with some eggs that Matt had us bring down where we cracked them open, then bounced the yolks around a bit, then flicked them and watched them explode due to the pressure. The visibility was about 80-100 feet. We swam around the ship for a bit and headed back to the mooring line for our ascent. The great part was that 100 feet didn't really feel any different than 30 feet.

After about an hour and a half on the surface we headed back down to the ship on our own. This time we swam all the way around the ship, from the bow, where the mooring line was attached, to the stern, where we could see the big propellers, and then back up to the bow again. We were getting used to our computers and the fact that in addition to many other things, they compute how long you can stay at the current depth, taking into account how fast you are using your air and how long it will safely take you to return to the surface and still have 600psi left when you get back to the boat. Very advanced computers, but it takes a bit of getting used to them to completely trust their calculations.

During lunch the boat moved to a location called Shark Junction. Rick was excited at the prospect of seeing some sharks! At this location there are some boats which come out from Grand Bahama and feed the sharks while divers watch from a flat concrete pad on the bottom. Our crew said that we could watch if we didn't get too close. After checking our compass we hopped into the water and swam towards the feeding area. Unfortunately, we saw some other divers and assumed they knew better than we did where to go. Then we followed some other divers who had made the same mistake in another direction. We did see one shark in the distance, but it was swimming away from us. After a while we decided to head back to the boat, but then it was taking way too long to get there, so we decided to surface. Lucky we did, since we were a ways from the boat, in a different direction than we thought! They sent the skiff to get us and towed us back on a line. Back on the boat we heard from those who had made it to the feeding area, they had seen a bunch of sharks! Arrrgh!

Even though there were no more feedings, we decided to do another dive specifically as a navigation exercise. We took our bearing on a buoy on the surface, then jumped in and followed the compass on the bottom. In a few minutes we arrived at the bottom of the line on the buoy. Then we turned around and followed a reverse course back. Right back to the boat; what do you know, compasses do work!

We had a good dinner then decided to skip the night dive and watch a movie in the room and get some extra sleep. It had been a very busy day!