Florida Pompano

     I did two dives this day. I drove up from Orlando, leaving at 4:30am arriving at 7am. Boat left Mayport Harbor after 8am, and we were back before 1pm.  Both dives were from an anchored boat over wrecks.  There was a ledge just west of the second wreck that ran North/South that I followed, but because of currents and big miscalculations on my part, I had a big swim back to the boat.  Since I didn't have all that much air left, the swim back was mostly on top of the water.  Rule for diving from anchored boats is NEVER stray too far...

     I found a bag of shells someone had left. I salvaged the bag, left the shells.  I also found a hand weight someone had used as an anchor or maybe a fish weight. I used my big knife for the first time in 12 years, to cut away the string, but I lost the weight somewhere on the way back (should have put it into a pocket or even that bag I found, instead of just stuffed into my belt).

     I believe there were more fish here than WPB. There was a huge abundance of larger, spearfishing size fish too.  If the VIS had been better, no telling what all I would have seen.  As it was, the VIS was bad, less than 30 feet.  They tell me it gets better, so I will dive here again.

     I used Atlantic Pro Divers as the charter.