Taking Time Off
After teaching and working as a Coast Guard member for a decade, 31-year-old Brandi Mueller went on a well-deserved vacation. Instead of visiting one of her favorite dive spots, she decided to return to a beautiful place she had visited only once before: The Marshall Islands. For those who do not know, the Marshall Islands are a long, thin strip of islands located approximately halfway between Hawaii and the Philippines.
For the first few days, Mueller did all the typical Marshall Islands dives. Then, she decided to head out with a friend and check out a new dive spot she had heard of, about five miles off the island of Roi-Namu, one unknown to all but a few divers…