Tonight is the night dive. Have not done so many because Randy, my dive buddy, did not like them. He said,” the predators come out at night”.  It reminds me of when we were last in Belize, Ambergris Caye, with all 3 kids, we took Tomy also. Randy and I went diving and also snorkeling with the boys. Tim our oldest son wanted to go on a night snorkel. Tim age, 10, Chris, age 7 and I went. We left at sundown in a boat. When  we arrived at the site, it was cloudy, no visible moon, the water looked like ink and the sky was black. It frightened me that I had brought those 2 little boys out to this seemingly dangerous situation with no light. However, snorkeling we saw lobsters running across the ocean floor with glowing red eyes, and sea urchins swimming instead of hiding in holes.  The anxiety left as soon as we got into the water.

Tonight, for the night dive, I had a good underwater light, wanted to use it. We are to dive from the shore and there was a moon. It was the time to see the “string of pearls. The briefing plan is that in the middle of the dive, we go to the ocean floor in a sandy area, turn off our lights and watch for the luminescence of the string of pearls. At that time, we turned off our lights. It was so black, I got a little claustrophobic. Got the feeling that everyone left me and the uncomfortable notion of being alone in complete darkness. All I thought of is an escape plan..turn on the light, check air gage, inflate my BC, surface. See where the island and plan to swim. It was relief when all the lights came on, and finished our dive.