Rich, my job on that dive was to stay down until all of the divers (all 15 of 
them) were off of the wreck, and then pull the hook. I was not planning a short 
bottom time or deco, it is just that they all weenied immediately and came up , 
after only 18 minutes. I dropped down, missed it, dropped to the sand where I 
could see the anchor cable used to hold it while they sunk it, followed that 
along the sand to the wreck (that is how I know tht wreck is nowhere near as 
deep as advertised), and went up over the bow. It had "Sucre" painted on it
They 
called it 30, and decoed for two hours, but I did twelve minutes of deco on air 
and got out. I still had exactly half of my gas (1600 psi) left in my single 80 
which would have sufficed for the other twelve minutes of bottom time and 30 of 
deco that would have been required had the divers folowed their original plan.
I 
ran when I got home, and ran the next morning, dove again, ran the next 
afternoon - if I had needed more deco , I would have known it by then, and 
remembereed to do more next time.

    Here is a funny story for you: when I was getting ready to dive on the 
surface, I held my reg in my had so it would not freeflow while I attached my 
scooter to me. I then dropped down, clearing my ears, and hit the trigger. At 
100 feet, I noticed I could not breath, and reached back to turn on my tank, 
which I figured was off, only to find that the reason I could not breath was 
that my regulator was in my hand. Get that relaxed, use less air.

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