Don got up at 7am and returned our wonderful vehicle to the rental place across the street. Last full day of trip and saved the best for last for the boys. The dive shop at the hotel has a Discover Scuba package of 2 hours of pool and tabletop instruction in the morning and then two scuba dives on reefs in the afternoon. In the morning, the instructor went over critical skills and use of all the scuba gear and then went thru all the skills needed for dives up to 40' in depth. Don and boys got in the hotel pool with full scuba gear and practiced all the skills like clearing a mask, becoming neutrally buoyant, and how to share air if a buddy runs out. Also got to swim around at bottom of pool. Wrapped that up and then had two hour break before taking a 10 minute bus ride to beach where they got onto the dive boat for a short ride to the first dive, named Glenn Miller.
Once at the site, we all got on our gear and got a quick briefing on the dive and a reminder of basic skills. We then stepped (jumped several feet) off the front of the boat into the water. Pretty cool. Dive instructor then led us down 30' - 40' where she led us all up and down and around the reef. Saw lots of cool fish, spotted eagle ray, lion fish, conch, and even sea turtles. The boys did great. We got back on the boat, got our gear back in the racks and took another short ride to our next dive spot called Spanish Anchor due to a large anchor there from a few hundred tears ago. Geared up and jumped back in for another 30+ minute dive and had another great dive. Back on the boat, picked up at the beach, and back to the hotel by around 4:15p. Great way to end the teip for the boys. Now they all want to get certified and go on a long dive trip to Grand Cayman. Maybe this was not such a good idea. No photos from underwater but some from pool and on dive boat.
On the dive boat
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