It was my 12th trip on the Cayman Aggressor. I did the LEAST number of dives (17) in 5 1/2 days of diving, but dived the MOST number of sites (18) on such a trip, while the Aggressor moored at only 12 different sites. :-) It shouldn't be much of a challenge for anyone familiar with Cayman sites to figure out HOW that could've happened. DAY 1. Doc Polson Wreck. Marty's (Martin's) Wall Rum Point Crossing to Little Cayman DAY 2. Randy's Gazebo Great Wall West Bus Stop Meadows Cumbers Cave DAY 3. Russian Wreck (Cayman Brac) Cayman Brac Wall Eagle Ray Roundup (Little Cayman) Jackson's Reef DAY 4. Great Wall Lea Lea's Lookout Crossing back to Grand Cayman DAY 5. Round Rock Trinity Caves Oro Verde DAY 6. Big Tunnel (Devil's Grotto: couldn't stand this one <g>) The water was WARM (84F), the visibility was generally very POOR, by Cayman standards. Pea soup was the rule than the exception, just as I observed in Cozumel a couple of weeks before, which makes me suspect it's a Caribbean condition of the El Nin~o type. It was windy, rainny, and sunny on most days -- rather atypical of Cayman weather at this time of the year. On Thursday, there was even a threat of a possible hurricane when we returned to Grand Cayman. On Day 5, the North side of GCM was un-moorable because of windy conditions. On both Day 5 and Day 6, the wind-and-wave conditions made Stingray City inaccessible (which was a first on all my trips, to my delight -- because I am sick of Stingray City after about the 2nd time <G> and the substitute sites -- Round Rock and Big Tunnel -- were much more interesting than the stingrays). It's hard to tell whether this crazy weather condition will continue through the CAIV02NEDfest or not. What else is new? 1. The Aggressor Fleet has reduced its crew size to FIVE (from 7 to 9 in previous years). Capt Kurt said 9/11 and reduced bookings had been blamed, though the CA-IV has been almost always filled to capacity (18), including this week. Only 3 of this week's 5 will be at the June 8-15 week <g>, but I have warned Captain Kurt the NEDs are coming, but I refused to let them borrow Crusty's 2002 NEDfest shirt to greet the incoming passengers at the airport. :-) 2. The CAIV boat engine was ailing after the last dive of the week. As we left, one of the engines was still being repaired and it still couldn't moor at the usual Georgetown pier. Friday night, passengers had to be shuttled to shore for dinner on the boat's only dinghy. :-) 3. The Indian chef Savio (who has gone to Bombay today for his week off) will be back on the NEDfest week. His cooking is generally excellent though his curry vindaloo was obviously toned down for the Gringo eaters. :-) 4. There are now THREE scooters ($10 per dive), two two-seater kayaks (free, I think) on board. There's the hot tub (and the June issue of Rodales which featured an article on Hot Tub and Hot Showers contributing to DCI -- and I noticed that magazine quickly disappeared from the dining/reading room <BG>). Nobody used the hot-tub during the week. Also nobody took the re-breather course, though I am sure they'll be available to the NED Terrorists. :-) I had adopted two new strategies for this trip: (1) I brought two BCs, and had one always on air, and the other always on EAN32, so that it's easier for both crew and me to dive on air in the mornings (on walls) and EAN32 in the afternoons on shallower dives, without having to bleed one tank empty over and over again when switching gas. It also made it less conspicuous when I chose to dive deeper than advisable on EAN32. :-) (2) The last THREE dives of the day (two in the afternoon and one at night) were always at the same sites. Sue and I had long given up the night dives once having been warm and cozy at dinner. :-) We fine-tuned the warm and cozy feeling on several days (egged on by the murky vis on shallow sand flats at the Jackson Bay sites) by combining two afternoon dives into ONE -- by doing a 90 minute dive instead of two 45-minute dives. :-)) We COULD have done those as 120 minute dives had the boredom factor not set in around the 90 minute mark. That pretty much explained the least NUMBER of dives we did for the week. :-) Now we're ready to get ready for the WARM and COZY feeling at the Choo-Choo-mini-NEDfest on June 1! -- Bob.