The diving was great. The visibility was, at best, 45 ft. It got so cold at night that our BC's and other gear would freeze solid! The air temp was as low as 12 deg above zero. The water temp was a chilly 36 deg F.

We used drygloves to keep the hands warm. Mitch, Phil, and I Demo'd  new dry gloves that we carry, by  XeroTech. Mitch and I used the blue ones with latex seals attattched (can be worn with a wetsuit as well). Phil used the industrial strength ones (yellow) with his existing dry cuff system. Starting at $89.95, these gloves rock.

Alaska is very sparsely populated. You can travel the coastline and not see any sign of habitation for miles. The quietness was unexpected. No car noise, no airplanes, no people, not even animal noises.

At this bay, on Chichagof Island, we were all alone. Just us divers and, somewhere on the botom, the big King Crabs. The problem was, that the crabs were hiding out. At is time of year, the crabs were herding together instead of being sprinkled about. So, seaching for  King crab was like trying to find a needle in a hay stack.

	We did a number of dives searching for the elusive King Crab. We had no luck for days.		We did find some tastey scallops.		There were some fiesty Tanner (Snow) crabs.

We managed to fray a compressor belt during the search phase.

Since we didn't have a spare belt we arranged to have one flown into Tenakee Springs (Population 106) by float plane.