DeepDiverBob
June 3rd, 2007, 04:52 PM
wow, what a weekend. Plenty of deep dives for 1 weekend, thats for sure.
The weekend started off with me cleaning the deep platforms for Glen. 100 and 85 foot platforms were nice and shiney for the classes this weekend. Okay, maybe not shiney, but they looked good.
Saturday, I kicked off the day with a nice, deep ever so slight deco dive with theskull. we dropped down off of the 100 foot platform, to the bottom, and swam out to the rock crusher, and came back slowly making out way up along the wall. Great dive. Vis at depth I would say was 25 foot, temp the constant 42 degrees.
Next dive was with Ken. Again, we went out to play on bottom of Mermet, checking out the inner wall. Very fun dive.
Dive Number 3 was with Ken and new board member ScubaPete. I took him and his buddy to the 100 foot platform. First time for them to see triple digits, so that was pretty cool for them. even Petes crash into the platform was very entertaining.
Dive number 4, well, dont remember exactly that we did, but I know it was deep again. Yes I do, it was a deep dive with one of my shops instructors, and 1 student .So me and Ken tagged along. Because we had a student, we did a surface swim out to the rock crusher, and dropped down on it, and then followed the wall back. Found 121 foot on that dive.
I dont remember what we did for dive number 5, but I know it was deep. At this point, I realized I had been going deep quite a bit, and started using my 40% and 100% mix for safety stops, and extended them, just to be safe.
Dive 6 this morning was another dive with theskull, scuba sally and another guy whom I admit I ust forgot his name. This was another attempt
to see the rock crusher, but be cause we had 2 single tank divers with us, and one of them on air, wecame up the wall a little early, but a great dive non the less.
Dive number 7 was a minor search dive. There was no recovery, because we was unable to find the missing slate from the class. But me and ken tooled around the inner wall again, and back to the main dock, where Ken tried to launch is lift bag. I wish we had better vis at 15 foot, because I wanted to see what exactly ken did, because it had to be comical. After he bounced down to about 30 feet a few times, I finally saw a lift bag barely make it to the surface. Then it went back down again. Shortly there after, I saw it once again going to the surface, this time with Ken going with it, all tangled in the line. I saw he was moving quite fast, and I knew he was doing to breech. The DM in me came out, and I dumped all my air, and grabbed ahold of him to try and slow him down. I dont know at what depth he started, but at about 10 foot, I had to let him go. FROM WHAT Glen said, he probably could have beached himself on the dock if he was a little closer to it. Kind of comical to talk about, after the fact. But definitly a learning experience for all.
Great weekend, great dives with great friends. (And Ken)
The weekend started off with me cleaning the deep platforms for Glen. 100 and 85 foot platforms were nice and shiney for the classes this weekend. Okay, maybe not shiney, but they looked good.
Saturday, I kicked off the day with a nice, deep ever so slight deco dive with theskull. we dropped down off of the 100 foot platform, to the bottom, and swam out to the rock crusher, and came back slowly making out way up along the wall. Great dive. Vis at depth I would say was 25 foot, temp the constant 42 degrees.
Next dive was with Ken. Again, we went out to play on bottom of Mermet, checking out the inner wall. Very fun dive.
Dive Number 3 was with Ken and new board member ScubaPete. I took him and his buddy to the 100 foot platform. First time for them to see triple digits, so that was pretty cool for them. even Petes crash into the platform was very entertaining.
Dive number 4, well, dont remember exactly that we did, but I know it was deep again. Yes I do, it was a deep dive with one of my shops instructors, and 1 student .So me and Ken tagged along. Because we had a student, we did a surface swim out to the rock crusher, and dropped down on it, and then followed the wall back. Found 121 foot on that dive.
I dont remember what we did for dive number 5, but I know it was deep. At this point, I realized I had been going deep quite a bit, and started using my 40% and 100% mix for safety stops, and extended them, just to be safe.
Dive 6 this morning was another dive with theskull, scuba sally and another guy whom I admit I ust forgot his name. This was another attempt
to see the rock crusher, but be cause we had 2 single tank divers with us, and one of them on air, wecame up the wall a little early, but a great dive non the less.
Dive number 7 was a minor search dive. There was no recovery, because we was unable to find the missing slate from the class. But me and ken tooled around the inner wall again, and back to the main dock, where Ken tried to launch is lift bag. I wish we had better vis at 15 foot, because I wanted to see what exactly ken did, because it had to be comical. After he bounced down to about 30 feet a few times, I finally saw a lift bag barely make it to the surface. Then it went back down again. Shortly there after, I saw it once again going to the surface, this time with Ken going with it, all tangled in the line. I saw he was moving quite fast, and I knew he was doing to breech. The DM in me came out, and I dumped all my air, and grabbed ahold of him to try and slow him down. I dont know at what depth he started, but at about 10 foot, I had to let him go. FROM WHAT Glen said, he probably could have beached himself on the dock if he was a little closer to it. Kind of comical to talk about, after the fact. But definitly a learning experience for all.
Great weekend, great dives with great friends. (And Ken)