Campana
Guest
I am IANTD Cavern certified and working on Intro to Cave. I am not able to cave dive often enough, and felt I needed some practice with my gear. Today, I met my buddy Mike for some cave practice. We met at the Scuba Park where he was getting air and proceeded to the Rock Pit down the road. It was my first dive with my Faber 95's doubled up. Putting them on felt pretty unwieldy, and I almost fell over sideways sitting on my tailgate. I had also just gotten some new weight pockets, and when I put them on, I didn't put any D rings behind them. Since we were just diving in the pit (no overheads), I snapped my reels to my Scooter ring and got in the water. A lot of relief, to be in the water, cause all that weight is off your shoulders. Put on fins, and submerged, following the 30' depth to find some rocks where Mike's lines are tied off. They were in very bad shape, broken, wadded up, slipped off rocks, sunk in the silt, and generally about as screwed up as possible. With the new tanks, and the change in weight and weight distribution, I was fooling with my bouancy, bouncing off the bottom and generally silting things up, but to my relief, Mike was also generating some silt of his own. Of course, I got the snarled line trapped in the reels on my scooter ring, twice. The second time, I got Mike's help in getting unsnarled. We lost the line a few times, not because of not following it, but because it sunk in the silt and then was broken. We both felt pretty clumsy and not very smooth. The silting and entanglement would be totally unacceptable in a cave, of course. Mike pointed out that if we got into a cave with that bad of a line, we'd be out of there in minutes, anyway.
Well, that's why we practice, eh? I'm going back out tommorow to swim around at the Scuba Park and pretending to be in Peacock. I need the down time in my drysuit and new doubles. The doubles appear to work just fine.
Dave
Well, that's why we practice, eh? I'm going back out tommorow to swim around at the Scuba Park and pretending to be in Peacock. I need the down time in my drysuit and new doubles. The doubles appear to work just fine.
Dave