When cancer takes her husband of twenty-one years, the author feels a loss of direction until she opens her eyes to new possibilities.
Leaving her job and taking her recently widowed mother for a long getaway to Zihuantanejo on the Pacific coast of Mexico ultimately leads her to make choices that bring about a change in her view of life and of the ocean in a way she never thought possible.
In this volume detailing the first trip as crew on a sailing sloop, she discovers scuba diving and a new passion: life beneath the waves.