Here’s Brigid before a night dive in the Cayman Islands

I made a digital photo of a color xerox, of a picture I always liked.

Here is Brigid getting ready for a night dive. She’s got her fins and snorkel in her left hand, flashlight in her right, and you can see the dial hanging off her regulator, to her left. You can barely make out a yellow tank above the dial, behind her left arm. The red thing she’s wearing over the rugby jersey ( a Fairfield University jersey, I might add) is an ABLJ – adjustable bouyancy life jacket. You can use it underwater to help adjust your bouyancy. In fact if the second stage of your regulator fails – that’s the part you have in your mouth, and a failure is not even a million to one shot – you can breath through the ABLJ, since there’s a tube from the first stage of the regulator going to the ABLJ. Uhhh, it helps to keep you wits about you in that situation.

Nothing is cooler (well, very few things) then a night dive. The coral is open and feeding, different types of fish are active – you always see octopi – and you can only see four or five feet in the light of your flashlight. Some people can’t handle that, and their first night dive is their last.

One of these days, I will figure out how to get digital photos of my slides from Jamaica and the Cayman Islands – way back from 1977 to 1981 – and start posting a few.