Don
- Don's trip Cancun 2014
2014-05-05 - Underwater Sculpture Museum, Cancun, Mexico
9m - 35 min - Dived with Daniel E. Vargas
This was my first open water dive in salt water. It was at the Under Water Museu off Isla Mujeres. Went with a DM and a family that had never dove. The father was sea sick most of the time. We say schools of fish and the Museu was not a cheesy and I had expected. Stayed buoyant better than I thought I would and I equalized often with better success. Ears sore after the dive however.
Buoyancy, mask, and equalizing all in check - much improved. Big swales at sea more that 2Xs the size of the boat, some 20 feet high. When we left the dive shop, the DM told me that we could not go to the reef that he wanted to go to because the wind was too strong, so we went to the other side of the island. I was surprised at the swales. Once under water it calmed down, but there were still a lot of movement. We saw lobster, crab, schools of fish, angel fish and a very large grouper. Surfacing was very good. Slow ascent.
A lot of swales, some more that 20 feet tall. The current made it hard to swim at times because we were rocking. Not as much fish as the first dive today but plants with very large leaves were pretty cool. I was nauseated going in. Thought I was going to throw up once but it quickly went away. Made a mistake surfacing - inflated BCD and shot to the surface.
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