Diving Turneff Elbow, Caye Caulker, Belize

We saw a Hammerhead shark!  It was amazing.  We went on a one-day, three tank dive on Turneff atoll, south side, known as the elbow. The corals were great and we saw a giant turtle, tons of snappers and jack fish.  I may be somewhat spoiled by having dove in Asia; while the corals here are fantastic, the fish life is, generally, not nearly as abundant. At the beginning of the day, we had a few minor equipment mishaps such as leaky BCDs, half full tanks of air and mouthpieces which were missing the grips you hold on to so you can breath.  Since nothing is a problem in Belize (the island mantra along with one love, mon and I gotta smoke me a spliff), we  just cleaned it up and headed out.  The boat ride to the dive site was a little over an hour and a half mostly inside the reef, therefore not too rough of waters.  Our first dive was great.  At the end of the dive, we saw a 10' Hammerhead Shark swimming about 20 feet below us.  It was amazing!  The second dive wasn't as good.  We had a new, inexperienced dive master leading us.  When one of our group members had problems equalizing the pressure on her ears during the decent the dive master went to hep her and never returned.  Three of us were swimming around for about 10 minutes before we surfaced to find our dive master had in fact forgotten where he left us.  He looked around, but couldn't get back to where we were.  Well, he says he went back to where we were, but since we didn't move, I deduced his inability to find us.  This particular dive didn't get much better and ended with us coming up from our dive early because our dive master was hungry.  He was such a small, skinny guy, I found it shocking he ate at all, better yet ended a dive because of hunger.  One the third dive, we were back on track and without our hungry friend who can't seem to find his way around the sea.