Week One

 

So week one has been quite eventful. We lost an anchor at the start of the week and had to leave before we could find it. Then generator two went down so we had no back up. We headed out for west Caicos and some tough days. Start at 5am, breakfast, followed by diving, snack, dive, lunch, dive, snack, dive, dinner, night dive and so on.

The very first dive I went on we were greeted by a turtle who followed us for the whole dive. Just before the end of the dive two reef sharks decided to come say hi. Lets just say I haven’t done a dive and not seen a shark yet!! The highlight for me was watching two eagle rays with a wing span of about two meters come flying past me on our second to last dive out at French kay, truly a beautiful moment.

We headed back to port this morning where the hunt for the anchor began. A troop of snorkels headed out but no luck. It came to be my turn so I suited up and got into the water. The difference was I got towed around holding a rope from the back of our tender. After an hour in the water I spotted it!! Elated we reported back to the captain, I could tell he was relieved I dread to think what that anchor was worth. He quickly deployed me with a 500lb lift bag and SCUBA. I raised it up and we towed it back to the boat where we hoisted it up to the deck using the ships crane. A triumphant finish to a truly inspired week at sea, and it all starts again in around 5 hours.