Prince Albert/CoCoView Wall
This dive served as our check out dive. While as returning CoCoView guests we weren't required to do the
orientation dive, it just seemed like a good idea to check out new equipment (BC & camera) and our weight
where if somethingwent wrong we didn't have to sit out a dive on the boat. Jay, Rani, Deanne and I swam
down the chain to the Prince Albert, just in time to startle a green moray and see him free swimming off
to Newman's Wall. We worked around the stern a little then swam across the flats to CoCoView Wall. Returning
we saw the orientation dive group pass beneath us going out.
This was a 6 minute boat ride to the east, and was just a little beyond CocoView Wall. 
Too Tall Too Small
This was about a 20 minute boat ride to the east and was performed as a drift dive, drifting towards
the west over the wall and then later on top. Just at the edge of the wall we saw a large crab hanging
on a fan, riding it as it swayed in the surge. Afterwards we spent our
surface interval at Parrot Bay Resort before the drop off dive.
Caribe Point
This was about a 10 minute boat ride to the east. 
Anka's Place
This was a 24 minute boat ride to the west, just a little beyond French Harbor. This features a large coral
head that was split in an earthquake. It's a protected dive site so they clock the divers into the
fissure at 65 feet at 1 minute intervals. At a leisurely swim it takes about 8 minutes to swim the
transverse crack and then turn left through the lateral. At the exit there was seahorse that bunched up
the divers some, but there was also a slow tornado of snappers at about 25 feet that drew off some of the
photographers. For the surface interval on the return Jorge took us through French Harbor to see the
sights.
Marys' Place
This was about a 6 minute boat ride to the west, just a little beyond Newman's Wall where the reef
backs up to the Fantasy Island breakwater. At the edge of the wall it was an explosion of fish,
large schools of creole wrasse, striped grunts, chubs, groupers cruising through with remora hanging on.
On top of the reef it was an aquarium. I liked watching three french angelfish playing tag around a small
coral head.
Just before the end of the dive we ran into a squadron of squid, about 20 in number, just hanging in
a line in about 25 feet of water. We watched them for about 10 minutes before returning to the boat.
Minagerhea's Reef
Calvin's Crack
This was about a 20 minute boat ride to the east, just of Jonesville. Our surface intrval was spent
touring the bight that makes up the Jonesville harbor.
Valley of the Kings
This was about a 6 minute boat ride to the west. 
This was a night boat dive. We were pretty excited about it since rip currents had made
night shore diving difficult. Also it was a return to our favorite dive site. As we made the turn
out of the cut, we got clued in that it wasn't going to be the same relaxing dive. Three foot rollers
on our beam started pitching the boat pretty wildly and the dive master started reviewing procedures
we'd use if the mooring line broke. Entry was pretty easy, you just stood there and let the boat throw
you in. In the water visibility was way down, and everything was hunkered down staying out of the surge.
You could get in a little valley and the surge would swing you back and forth about 5 feet. We stuck to
Ronnie the dive master just to make sure we could find the boat. We came across a few large crab out,
and a couple of octopi, but not much else. Exiting to the boat was a challenge with the sea wasps
and the ladder flying wildly about. It seems like I was 10 feet away and suddenly the boat was on top
of me. I grabbed the ladder trying to stay out of the prop and hung on, being flung about. Somewhere in
there I remember someone beneath me grabbing my leg and holding on while I tried to get my fins off.
Later I discovered that my weight belt had been thrashed off and someone else found it on the bottom. I
wonder if it hit the person hanging on to my leg and made them let go. Any dive that you make it back
on the boat is a good dive.... Ironically, those who decided to night dive from shore said that the rip
currents didn't show up that night.
Minagerhea's Reef
