Photos from Matt:
Pics from the dive from William:
William's Report:
We arrived at Miami Beach Marina for the afternoon trip with RJs. Our Dive Trip Coordinator for today was Matt and he did a great job getting our team checked in, picking the sites and booking the boat. (Thanks Matt!)
We then took a couple of minutes to organize the teams, figure out our objectives and do some planning as a group before we broke up into individual teams. (Thanks Sergio!)
Teams and Objectives
Team 1: Rick, Gary and William (Photo)
Team 2: Matt and Andrea (Photo)
Team 3: Jan and Carlos (Intro to GUE diving)
Team 4: Morgan, Nicole and Javi (Doubles Team)
Team 5: Sergio and Angela (Wreck diving)
We arrived at the St. Anne Wreck (75') and the boat tied in. Team 1 headed in first to get some pictures of the other teams as they headed down. The current was hitting this wreck from the starboard side and we found a good spot out of the current to wait for the group. Once everyone was down and had some pictures taken, a couple of divers tried a scooter, we then started to explore from stern to bow and snapping more pics of the teams as we went along. There were plenty of divers on this wreck, we moved slowly allowing them to pass when we met them. After a complete tour of the external part of the wreck, we made it back to the ascent line and went through our stops. It was a little crowded but our team continued to communicate well through our stops.
During the surface interval, we planned for a drift dive on the wreck of the Tarpon (75'). We changed teams around based on objective and I had an opportunity to dive with Sergio and Angela.
The current seemed to keep taking us west away from the reef, we made a course correction to get back on the reef and to the drop off. This allowed us to cruise right over the Wreck of the Tarpon about 22 mins into the dive. The rest of the dive, we just went with the flow and practiced our liftbag and ascent with stops. This was certainly a great way to kick off the MUE group.
A couple of us stayed after for dinner at Monty's to talk about the dive and more importantly plan the events for August.Thanks to everyone who joined us and looking forward to more diving with MUE members.
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