The question came up recently: When was the last time I dove in Baja? I took out my old dive logs and took a look. I dove twice at the Cabo Pulmo Marine Park and remember all the huge boulders underwater and the fish that were on the same scale. The trip was before I started creating jewelry inspired by my dives, yet all the images built up in my head over the years certainly have helped.
While looking through the logs looking for Baja entries, I stopped to read the log of my favorite dive site: Alcyone in the Cocos Island Marine Park area of Costa Rica. As the second diver down, I was priveleged to experience a huge school of hammerheads before all the diver bubbles drove the sharks farther out from the sea mount. The best way to describe it is as follows: if I was in a snow globe all the snowflakes would be hammerheads.
The dive on Alcyone was also when I realized that sunscreen on the face was keeping my mask from sealing properly. Now I skip the sunscreen until after I dive, for visibility and because the ingredients in most suncreens are harmful to the marine life.