Just a couple more months and Josh would be 16. All he could think about was cars and girls. Outside off those passions he and I shared a passion for extreme sports. He was about to start his advance diving cousre with me and let me know he like to get crazy underwater. I raised a eyebrow and said “we’ll see about that!”

Our first dive was on a sunken military boat off the west coast of Cozumel. The currrent was rippin’! Josh had told me about how he was on the swim team back home, but I wondered if he was trully prepared for the effort it was about to take to get around this ship. Once on the bottom in about 100 feet of water we tried to make our way around to the stern. With the current blasting us in the face, I was finning hard…and rising up to a open porthole which he could pass through and seek shelter out from the current. “Time to rethink the game plan” I thought. I eventually came up beside the porthole. My fins were churning hard through the current. I kept a constant kick going then looked underneath me to check for Josh. There he was…glad to be a swimmer…kicking his butt off to get to where I was at. I quickly ducked through the porthole and glided into one of the hallways. Did another flip-check ..right behind me he was! With perfect buoyancy me made our way through the hallway which opened back up on the other side.

Twenty minutes had passed and we had been through the wreck a couple times and finally did make it back to the stern to have a look at the propellers. As we started back up the rope that connected our diveboat to the wreck I, we noticed a couple of special guests. There were two divers using full rebreather units. They really looked liked astronauts with there spacepacks on having a space walk. That dive was exihillarating and tiring all at once. We had seen a cool wreck and the extreme to which you could take this sport, when we saw the rebreather guys. Josh just smiled real big and gave me a “hook ‘em horn” hand sign. WoooHooo!!!

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