Pre-Hurricane SCUBA Dive

My wife and I decided to get a dive in before Hurricane Felicia does whatever she's going to do, and also to test our regulators, which just came back from service. It appears you can't get more than about 6-7 years of life out of 2500 mAh Nimh batteries, as my strobes died after about 5 minutes even though they started out fully charged.

Before they died, I managed to get this Spotted Boxfish. Nothing special, but he's cute...



Of course, as luck would have it, a manta ray glided leisurely across my path and I was set up for macro... typical. We saw a zebra eel out in the sand too, which was very cool. Don't see them out in the open like that too often.

We're pretty concerned about the apparent drop in the fish population. I'm not sure if it's just a perceived thing on our part, or if there's really a difference in the numbers. Let's hope it's the former.