August 30th Day 67

I woke up this morning feeling much better than I did the day before. I felt perfectly fine to go do the last dive for the Porites rus measurements. It was long but it went well. Most of the time the coral bommies were within a half meter of the surface so we were even shallower than we were our first day doing these measurements. Once we finished up, we came back to the station and I started doing clean-up related things like laying out lines to dry and rinsing transect tapes. After lunch I did data entry until we got everyone together to do our boat dives for our dive master class. Steph and Brie led their dive to the left of Cook's Bay. Katrina and I were playing a married couple of 30 years who were very different in dive skill level. I got to be a tourist on that dive but then immediately after we went back in and got a few more people to go on our boat dive. Our dive went quite differently than the previous one. First off there were more people to keep track of. I took care of Andy who was actually 2 people Betty and Sue. Of course he made sure to get into the water without a weight belt on so that he couldn't go down. I had to get back up and get onto the boat to get it for him so that we could go down and meet up with everyone else. Once we got down to everybody, Andy was swimming around like he was riding a bicycle and was trying to suck down as much air as possible. He finally turned to me and signaled he was out of air so I had to share air with him to the surface and get him back to the boat. I felt like I was in my rescue AAUS course all over again. We eventually got everyone back on the boat and back to the dock at Gump where Keith gave both groups of dive masters a debriefing at the same time. He put a lot of different situations on us today which was good because it gave us all real experience in dealing with these issues. After that Brie and I made steak and cuscus for dinner. We ate quickly so that we could do some more dive master lectures and get them done. We all were zoning out toward the end and we called it a night after two short lectures. I ended up going out to the dock right after to lay down and look at the stars. It is incredible how brightly you can see them here. After I worked a little on my application before I headed to bed. Now I'm super tired so I am calling it a day. Until later.