This dive is approx. 20 min. in duration. I just started diving that year of 2012. My brother in law and I took my 34ft Tolly sedan motor yacht into Puget Sound and tied the bow off to a marked dive buoy 500 yards due south off the SE tip of Whidbey Island. I entered the water from the stern of the boat. The current on the surface was ripping at 4.5 knots (or 5.2 mph) so I had Arvin pull me to the bow with a rope. Even though Arvin is an extremely strong swimmer, he couldn't make the swim on his own against the strong current wearing full weighted scuba gear, even when entering the water from the midships and attempting to swim to the bow, so I went down alone. This dive shows me taking an 84ft solo decent into 48 degree water and in complete darkness (with a cheap $40 dive light) down to a ship wrecked 120ft wooden ferry boat. You will see exactly what I saw on this dive as my camera is attached to my mask. (F.Y.I Once I reach the bottom of the buoy rope, you will see total darkness for a few min. while I add air to my BC in order to establish nuetral buoyancy..sorry about that- I should have been adding air to my BC on the long way down "I'm still learning") NOTE: Right after I follow a small rock perch, I realize i'm lost and panic try's to set in. You will here my breathing rate accelerate faster and faster, because I got lost only 5ft from the buoy rope and spent the next 12min. trying to find the exit rope again. I knew that surfacing anywhere but from the dive buoy rope meant not knowing where I would be once I reached the surface and possibly being swept by the current far away from my boat into the shipping lanes of Puget Sound. (I now carry a small spare air tank and have a much more powerful dive light, and will not be night diving alone anymore.) (The reason you see me stop twice on the way back up: I perform two decompression stops on the way back up, one at 40ft and one at 15ft)

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