Feb 7

[DeepDiverBob]

Ken will be at Mermet. :D

I will be at home sucking eggs and pulling the wings off flies.

[skdvr]

So that means

STAY AWAY!!!

Phil

[MgicTwnger]

No, that means is anyone else going to be around?

[DeepDiverBob]

I may be there Saturday..50/50

[DeepDiverBob]

Okay, turns out I was able to make the journey to Mermet with my buddy Dave. Ken was already down there waiting on us. Ken was attempting to dive his doubles, and Dave had recently switched to a bigger set of doubles, so the dive profile was very conservative, just staying the lined course. So we geared up, and entered the water. This is where it got interesting. I swam over to retrieve a stage bottle I had hung from dock. It had some 32% in it that I needed to breath down. Ken was gearing up, when it suddenly appeared like the dock was attacking him. He was thrashing about, and I saw that his legs had somehow got caught in the hand rails, and he was having a hard time getting them out. I first looked to make sure his reg was in, and it was. I swam over to help him, and he was able to flop free of the dock. Then I noticed ken is still thrashing about on the surface. Again, I check to make sure he has a reg in, and he did. I stayed back a little ways until he tired out, in fear of getting kicked in the head, and also trying to figure out what his problem was. When I looked closer, I noticed the legs of his dry suit was totally filled with air. I told him to open the dump valve on his dry suit. When he did, a gust of air came screaming out of the suit, and he was able to calm down a little bit. We sat a little long waiting for ken to calm down a little, and prepare for the dive. Somewhere in the next few seconds, he took a mouthful of water, and swam back to the dock and said he was sitting this one out. Probably a very wise decision. Me and dave dropped down, and completed the circuit. Water temp was 42 on the surface, and I was getting 46 degrees at depth. Vis was very low, probably due to all the ice and snow melting. I would say 5-10 foot at best, at all depths.

Second dive, ken switched back to single tank, and joined us for a little more of the same. We descended down to the 65 foot platform, and started out towards the box car. Once we got to the box car, we noticed one of our team members was not there. So we turned around, and swam back to the 65 foot platform looking for him. When he wasnt there, we began to surface. At about 30 feet, he appeared, we regrouped and completed the dive with very little to report about.

All in all, it was a educational weekend. I was able to breath down my stage bottles, Dave was able to work out his bouyancy and trim issues with the new tanks, and Ken...well...was Ken.