Best of Mike #2

Probably the most common way to buy scuba diving, is what is called a "2-tank boat dive".


Each time you go out on the boat, you get two tanks and do two different dives. With a rest, or what we call "a surface interval" in between.


It is most often a morning activity and that was the case in Grand Turk. 


So, by lunch time you are done and ready to hang out.


This picture is taken from the patio of the little restaurant where we would go for lunch every day. It was between our hotel and the dive shop. So, we would just stop in on our walk back to the hotel.


A very laid back way to live. Still a little wet, kind of salty enjoying a cold beer and a tasty lunch. In my case, probably "fish and chips". I'm kind of a nut for fish and chips and will eat them every day if they are available and good.


Kind of fattening you say, not so, if you accept  #1 in Mike's absolutes truths of scuba diving.

• You can eat like a hog and not gain weight (because your body burns a ton of calories trying to heat the ocean to 98.6) 
• You will never have two bad nights of sleep in a row (even if you are really nervous about being underwater you burn so much energy each day that you will sleep like a baby on that 2nd night and probably every night after that).

In this pixture, we are looking down the beach towards the dive shop, where we would get on and off the boat each day.


One of the many things that I thought was cool about Grand Turk, is that there were no docks.


The crew would just drive the boat up onto the sandy beach and we would load our gear and ourselves on-board right in front of the shop.