150’ dive took 1 min. 25 sec. round trip.  You figure about a second per meter (round trip).

The part of deep diving that was hard for me to get was that at about 100’, I had no more air in my mouth or head to use for equalizing so you have to actually bring air up from your lungs into your mouth.   

Most of the other divers there were competitive freedivers from U.S., Canada, Japan, and Brazil.  It was part of the advanced course, but because there was so much going on preparing for a competition that’s happening in Cayman right now plus Kirk and Mandy training David Blaine for a record attempt breath hold on the Oprah Winfrey show scheduled for next Wednesday, we weren’t able to complete the course.  They owe me two days which I’ll get eventually.

The really cool part of the trip was the underwater scooters (see attached pic.).  These things are rated to go to 600’ and move along at about 6 or 7 knots.  I was cruising along the reef wall at 130’ then doing hairpin turns through cuts in the reef.  It was a blast.  Kirk bottomed out his Suunto D4 dive computer on a breath hold scooter dive at over 100 meters (like 330 feet)!!

The visibility was the best I've ever seen (anywhere between 100 and 160 feet) and there is absolutely no thermocline until about 400'.

R