On Mon, 04 Aug 2008 15:37:35 -0400, DownTime
wrote:

We have a number of spots marked that we tend to snorkel to see if they
are there, then go to scuba to collect. Too much work (i.e. exhausted by
end of day) for me to keep bouncing to 15-18 feet and chase em while
snorkeling.

When I was a teenager in the USAF at Charleston SC I went down to 65
or so to clear a fouled anchor. Slid down the rode with the aid of a
concrete half block, up hand over hand. Only down a minute or so. It
was black as ink down there, and the surface seemed far, far away. At
that time I could swim 100 yards underwater.

Casady