8/29/2005 my buddy Jeff and I headed for the Cassimir in his vessel.
The seas were still pretty rough in the morning.....courtesy of that
darn hurricane. It was a little too rough for the Cassimir, and the
waves were head-on. So....we altered course to head for the Gill
(WR4). Sargassum and flying fish and azure blue water all the way
out. We anchored in....and when I looked down the anchor line.....it
went on forever.

John D. Gill-----84 degrees on the surface....went through a layer
and slight thermocline at 80 fsw....vis was unlimited above that
layer. Below the layer vis was 50-60 ft temp was 79 at 95 fsw. Saw
2 really big nurse sharks....really big. Saw 4-5 Sandtiger sharks,
but they were really skiddish....couldn't approach them at all. The
Gill seems to have decayed even more since I dove it earlier in the
summer.. As we surfaced/decompressed from this dive, and ascended
above the layer at 80 fsw, there were hundreds...maybe thousands of
big barracuda schooling just above that layer. They were acting a
little weird, and were braver than normal. They were really acting
wierd.....scary weird. I could see the boat 70 feet above us.

Once we broke the surface we saw that the seas had laid down, I mean
the ocean looked like a mill pond. We did some figuring and
calculations, and figured we could run to the Cassimir, and still
make it home on our fuel load. So... we pulled anchor and hauled to
the Cassimir.

Cassimir----84 degrees on the surface....went through a layer and
major thermocline at 90 fsw....vis above the layer was unlimited.
Below the layer vis was 30-40 ft. The temp dropped to 71 degrees at
120 fsw. Very cold, a shocking thermocline in a 3 mm.
We swam the whole wreck, didn't find anything. My computer....brand
new.....went wacko on me....so had to revert to backup plan on
tables.....and ended the dive early.