As my diving went on, all my questions for the recreational diver had been eventually answered. The next person who came to my mind is a commercial diver. A commercial diver is generally associated with the oil field and spends most of his or her time working under water. Commercial divers are a rare breed of people because their jobs are more dangerous than the average person. I figured the best place for further information about the deep ocean would be from someone who is in that environment every day. The elite group of commercial divers is known as SAT divers. They perform the deep water jobs in the commercial industry. Sometimes they have to stay in the decompression chamber for as long as forty days to clean their bodies because they have to dive so deep. They have seen grouper larger than words can describe. I still find it hard to comprehend even after I have heard them first hand.

My diving partners and I had always talked about what we would see down below our deepest depths. Then one day we read a story about a man that fulfilled the same lifelong dream we all have had. The forty year old man explored a ship wreck that was four hundred and twenty-five feet deep. His reason behind it was to shoot a giant grouper. This was a technical dive that required a team of individuals working together to make his dream happen. It was a dive that was very risky because if one thing went wrong, his life was over. If anything went wrong while he was down there, it had to be fixed right away without panicking since he was not capable of rushing to the surface. The man and his dive buddy had to breathe a mixture of gases so their bodies would not be poisoned with the wrong gas. They dove down to the wreck and there were grouper everywhere between fifty and one hundred pounds. Then he spotted the giant four hundred and three pound grouper swimming straight towards him.

He shot two shafts in his head and killed it instantly. That is something he will remember for the rest of his life. Although his story sounded too dangerous, he survived and was able to tell the story because of his skills and the support of his crew. Diving down to a depth like that is not the idea of the average person. It takes a level mind along with a great crew to pursue a dream like that. One day I will hopefully be able to fulfill my dream as he did. I have got a few other goals I want to accomplish in life before I take a risk of that nature. Until that day comes where I get to dive on my deep wreck, I will have to keep dreaming of what it would be like.