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This trip
was my first trip with the Aggressor fleet and my second on a live aboard dive
boat. I liked the idea of “Eat, Sleep
and Dive”, the Aggressor motto.
The trip
turned out to exceed my expectations.
The boat Captain was Clay Wiseman, a well known underwater
photographer. The lead divemaster was his wife Jeannie. Both appear in the video - Clay using a
mirror to get a gobi to
display aggressive behavior and Jeannie in her trademark yellow wet suit. This video
is unusual because it contains a short scene of me underwater – I think Jeannie
took that shot. You can tell me because
I was using a back mounted BC. At the
time this video was
shot none of the major manufacturers were making harnesses for back
mounted BCs on single tanks. My good
friend Denny McLaughlin and I had developed a “home made” harness for a set of
SeaTec wings. All the other guests were
in jacket style BCs and thought I was some kind of nut. I think at first Clay did too, but as the
week wore on he decided that there was a method to my madness and started
asking me about the features of this strange BC. Later on when I met him again in Truk, he proudly showed me some of the features he had
incorporated from our first meeting. BTW
every major dive manufacturer now makes a back mounted BC for single tanks – I
guess I missed my opportunity to strike it rich.
This video starts with some nice footage of
usually very shy jaw fish, contains nice shots of reasonable large groupers,
barracuda, ocean sun fish, and a nice turtle scene near the end.
On the
flight on the way home, I learned that all the land based divers had not been
able to dive all week. The wind from the
east had made dive conditions to rough on the sites reachable by the day boats. We never noticed on the Aggressor because the
Captain had kept the islands and reefs between us and the wind all week so our
dive conditions were very pleasant – another reason why live aboard diving is
great!
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Belize Aggressor
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about Clay Wiseman