The night was a long one again, when the wind died down at about 3am the boat was sideways to the waves part of the time and I had to get up, turn on the lights, and store things in the salon so that they wouldn't bang and roll around. In the morning I decided to make it a diving day, with two trips to the little island called Île Créole in order to practice my bouyancy control and picture taking at easy depths of 10-20 feet. The pictures below show the results from two dives - each lasting an hour and with 2000 out of 3000 psi remaining in the tanks, I only stoped the dives when I realized that I was getting a bit chilled.
Filling the tanks went quickly and without effort, I ran the genset to make water, heat the water reservoir for a hot shower, boil some edamame on the stovetop, do a load in the dishwasher and charge the batteries while running the Bauer compressor.

The Ikelite housing and flash containing my D7000 camera and today's lens - a 35mm primary with a +2 diopter screw-on attachment. (2012-02-04 12:39:50 PENTAX Optio WS80 [f/3.8, 1/160s] ISO 64)	It is time for me to clean the bottom of my dinghy before it becomes a real biotope. (2012-02-04 11:14:45 NIKON D7000 with a "35.0 mm f/1.8" lens. [f/7.1, 1/160s] ISO 160 Focus 0.79m) [18°7'2.95"N 63°3'23.56"W ]	What I think is a Porgy foraging at the bottom. (2012-02-04 11:16:45 NIKON D7000 with a "35.0 mm f/1.8" lens. [f/11.0, 1/160s] ISO 160 Focus 0.89m) [18°7'2.95"N 63°3'23.56"W ]	I could see the shrimp and the little fish seemed to be guarding the entrance; unfortunately I cannot find it in my fish identification book. (2012-02-04 11:19:42 NIKON D7000 with a "35.0 mm f/1.8" lens. [f/9.0, 1/160s] ISO 160 Focus 0.45m) [18°7'2.95"N 63°3'23.56"W ]
This shrimp took a long time before deciding to come back out for a look and I was lucky to catch it before it once again disappeared. (2012-02-04 11:17:49 NIKON D7000 with a "35.0 mm f/1.8" lens. [f/11.0, 1/160s] ISO 160 Focus 0.63m) [18°7'2.95"N 63°3'23.56"W ]	I fond this cleaning station by accident and saw several small shrimp cleaning fish and others waiting, unfortunately after this shot the snapper zoomed away. (2012-02-04 11:35:46 NIKON D7000 with a "35.0 mm f/1.8" lens. [f/13.0, 1/160s] ISO 160 Focus 0.60m) [18°7'2.95"N 63°3'23.56"W ]	This squirrelfish was hiding along the side of a rock in the shade and I almost missed it. (2012-02-04 11:54:52 NIKON D7000 with a "35.0 mm f/1.8" lens. [f/10.0, 1/160s] ISO 160 Focus 0.71m) [18°7'2.95"N 63°3'23.56"W ]	I am fairly certain that this is one of the goby family. Well, kind-of sort-of and I couldn't find anything closer in the book. (2012-02-04 11:24:17 NIKON D7000 with a "35.0 mm f/1.8" lens. [f/8.0, 1/160s] ISO 160 Focus 0.50m) [18°7'2.95"N 63°3'23.56"W ]
These miniscule cleaning Goby are hard to catch as they go from motionless to -gone- in a millisecond. (2012-02-04 11:24:40 NIKON D7000 with a "35.0 mm f/1.8" lens. [f/6.3, 1/160s] ISO 160 Focus 0.40m) [18°7'2.95"N 63°3'23.56"W ]	A Wrasse (I think) (2012-02-04 11:56:58 NIKON D7000 with a "35.0 mm f/1.8" lens. [f/10.0, 1/160s] ISO 160 Focus 0.45m) [18°7'2.95"N 63°3'23.56"W ]	A scrawled filefish (what a name!) on the bottom at Grand Case. (2012-02-04 12:01:23 NIKON D7000 with a "35.0 mm f/1.8" lens. [f/11.0, 1/160s] ISO 160 Focus 0.60m) [18°7'2.95"N 63°3'23.56"W ]	Colorful parrotfish (2012-02-04 15:43:45 NIKON D7000 with a "35.0 mm f/1.8" lens. [f/8.0, 1/125s] ISO 100 Focus 0.40m) [18°7'2.95"N 63°3'23.56"W ]
Parrotfish in Grand Case (2012-02-04 15:45:05 NIKON D7000 with a "35.0 mm f/1.8" lens. [f/5.6, 1/125s] ISO 100 Focus 0.40m) [18°7'2.95"N 63°3'23.56"W ]	A school of Bluestriped Grunt along the rockface at Ile Creole in Grand Case, St. Martin (2012-02-04 15:47:51 NIKON D7000 with a "35.0 mm f/1.8" lens. [f/5.0, 1/125s] ISO 100 Focus 0.35m) [18°7'2.95"N 63°3'23.56"W ]	This is an Ocean Surgeonfish (I think) (2012-02-04 15:50:57 NIKON D7000 with a "35.0 mm f/1.8" lens. [f/5.0, 1/125s] ISO 100 Focus 0.38m) [18°7'2.95"N 63°3'23.56"W ]	A Gray Angelfish foraging for food. (2012-02-04 15:53:20 NIKON D7000 with a "35.0 mm f/1.8" lens. [f/5.6, 1/125s] ISO 100 Focus 0.38m) [18°7'2.95"N 63°3'23.56"W ]
Juvenile Parrotfish (2012-02-04 15:55:41 NIKON D7000 with a "35.0 mm f/1.8" lens. [f/6.3, 1/125s] ISO 100 Focus 0.38m) [18°7'2.95"N 63°3'23.56"W ]	Ocean Surgeonfish (2012-02-04 15:55:55 NIKON D7000 with a "35.0 mm f/1.8" lens. [f/4.0, 1/125s] ISO 100 Focus 0.38m) [18°7'2.95"N 63°3'23.56"W ]	A Trumpetfish hovering beside me. (2012-02-04 16:03:19 NIKON D7000 with a "35.0 mm f/1.8" lens. [f/6.3, 1/125s] ISO 100 Focus 0.42m) [18°7'2.95"N 63°3'23.56"W ]	Bluestriped grunts hovering (2012-02-04 16:06:23 NIKON D7000 with a "35.0 mm f/1.8" lens. [f/4.0, 1/125s] ISO 100 Focus 0.35m) [18°7'2.95"N 63°3'23.56"W ]
A juvenile hogfish posing for the camera after playing hard to get - it took some time and patience of waiting on the bottom for it to approach. (2012-02-04 16:11:47 NIKON D7000 with a "35.0 mm f/1.8" lens. [f/4.0, 1/125s] ISO 100 Focus 0.38m) [18°7'2.95"N 63°3'23.56"W ]	This is the only picture that turned out, as the ray was busy checking out his territory and wouldn't approach me. (2012-02-04 16:12:27 NIKON D7000 with a "35.0 mm f/1.8" lens. [f/6.3, 1/125s] ISO 100 Focus 0.47m) [18°7'2.95"N 63°3'23.56"W ]	This lizardfish took a long time to approach - the bottom was sandy ahead of it, so I dropped to the bottom, waited a couple of minutes, then inched closer to get a shot. (2012-02-04 16:19:59 NIKON D7000 with a "35.0 mm f/1.8" lens. [f/7.1, 1/125s] ISO 100 Focus 0.38m) [18°7'2.95"N 63°3'23.56"W ]