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Tuesday Wendell's notes Sean's photos Tuesday morning, we awoke at 7:30 AM with an extreme case of deja-vu, and enjoyed breakfast on the lanai, listening to the exotic birds of Kauai and the white noise of the surf rolling into the beach 100 yards away. After breakfast, we headed off for dive training with Demo Dave - Tracy for her basic SCUBA skills training and Sean and Wendell for the advanced training of underwater knife fighting and demolitions. Demo Dave's divemaster Hans. Demo Dave cannot be photographed for reasons of national security. After lunch, we retired to the condo, packed our gear and went out on the afternoon dive boat with Demo Dave. Tracy and Wendell on the diveboat. We dove off of Poipu Beach again - two dives that afternoon with Tracy in tow - she completed the "resort course" and was certified to dive to a max depth of 40 feet as long as she was accompanied by an instructor. Tracy and Wendell doing an air check at 40' depth. On Dive #1 the divemaster (Paul) found two octopi hunkered down in a cave. Sean and Paul managed to coax them out into the open water where one of them promptly wrapped itself around Wendell's head (with the express purpose of cracking through Wendell's facemask and eating his eyeballs.) Luckily Paul was able to extricate both Wendell and the octopus without harm to either. Tracy and Wendell doing some apres' dive snorkeling. Demo Dave invited us to accompany him that evening for a free night dive - apparently he has a great wreck dive on the North Shore of the island - a recently downed DC-3. The plane contained some cargo that he's salvaging, so we're invited to join him this evening and help him out. We asked Demo Dave how he could "fly out the harvest at night" and dive during the day without getting bent in the airplane. He explained that he only flies a few hundred feet above the surface, thus eliminating the possibility of getting bent.

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