Journal
On Monday, after battling an illness for a week, I finally managed to get over to Mangrove Marina and pick up my Hydra-Sport boat to bring over to the lift at my house for the season. This fall I had Mike and Julie from Xact Customs redo the interior of the boat using SeaDek coaming bolsters and SeaDek helm and transom pads. It turned out great.
Once again Bob Bauman and I decided to return to the Keys in late September for some great fall diving. The water is usually warm and still this time of year, compared to the winter months. Although it is still the peak of hurricane season, we lucked out as Hurricane Joaquin hovered out in the southern Bahamas and did not affect our weather until the last day.
We experience 6 great days of diving in a row. Although visibility in the water was not great, we had many great encounters with sea turtles, sharks, rays, eels, as well as usual schools of tropical fish. I captured some great videos and images that are posted on this website. In 40+ years of diving, I've never encountered turtles that seemed so relaxed as to allow me to swim up close for minutes at a time.
I have decided to develop this website: scubamark.com to display and share my underwater dive photos and videos. Although I have maintained a Youtube channel (markhewitt3) for a number of years, I feel it will be easier to direct people to this resource.
