Friday I took off work to dive with Beta, Joakim, and Dionna off of the Escapade. Arrived in Monterey and loaded all the gear onto the boat. Since there were only 4 of us there was lots of room for our scooters and deco bottles. We were planning on diving Mt Chamberlain to a depth of 220′, perfect Tech 2 dive. Joakim had just completed his Tech 2 class so this was his first post class T2 dive. As we left the Bay we could see thousands of Jellyfish everywhere. The wake of the boat was chewing them up by the hundreds. I was glad not to be diving in there. Still, the Bay was very flat but once we rounded the corner the swells picked up a bit. As we continued on the swells did get a bit larger but nothing that would make us call the dive and pick another spot. We arrived at the dive spot about an hour after we left the dock. The water looked blue and clear but that can be deceiving. We geared up with our doubles and clipped on one deco bottle. Once in the water the crew handed us another bottle and our scooters. Beta and Joakim had jumped in first and were waiting at the bouy. We have drifted back a bit so needed to scooter a few minutes to get back to the down line. Pointing our scooter down we took off. The vis was a bit cloudy to start, the reef came into focus at about 150′ or so. Slowing down at 180′ I signaled the other divers as I had just spotted a Ratfish swimming close to us. We continued down to 220′ and the vis opened up to about 50′ which was great. There were thousands of small fish which flashed out of the way when you shone your light towards them. The reef was full of hard and soft coral, purples, reds, oranges, whites. A large school of Rockfish was hiding in a small inlet of the reef. Just about that time we scootered over the reef, turned the corner and were met with a strong current that the scooters had a hard time overcoming. We decided to turn slowly out of the current and back round the corner. Beta led us along a straight canyon turned left and under an arch… fantastic. After about 30 minutes of depth we came up a bit and wandered around some checking out the tops of the reef. At the predetermined time we ascended to 70′ and settled in for 50 minutes of deco. The Jellyfish were not too bad so there was no stings on the way up. Overall a great dive, a dive were you can say, “That’s what my Tech 2 class was for”.