Victoria Vis conditions?

[Hyper-limits]

About 30 feet at Willis Pt. today. That's a lot less than normal, but it was still pretty bright down there. I was going to try for Enterprise Channel, but because of the barge up on the rocks, it was quite a circus with tugs, news crews and sightseers swarming everywhere.

Happy New Year Mark, we try to do Willis yesterday but my buddy was driving his front wheel drive van and had problem on the snow, we were surprise that the area had 10 to 15 cm of new snow, so we went to the Breakwater instead and did a long dive. Hopefully we will have the chance to get together more often this year.

Cheers

Al

 

[MarkH]

Happy New Year Mark, we try to do Willis yesterday but my buddy was driving his front wheel drive van and had problem on the snow, we were surprise that the area had 10 to 15 cm of new snow, so we went to the Breakwater instead and did a long dive. Hopefully we will have the chance to get together more often this year.

Cheers

Al

When I went today, the road was mostly clear. It looked like they sanded it. The fire access trail to the water was still covered in crusty snow and the climb down the rocks at the end was partially covered in ice from the little stream. So what was the vis like at the Breakwater?

 

[Hyper-limits]

So what was the vis like at the Breakwater?

The usual winter viz of 10 to 15ft. We were 4 divers on CCR so we enter at #1 went right past the end inside the breakwater and all the way back, it was a pretty good dive lots of octopus and red rockfishes.

Al

 

[Skookumchuck]

we enter at #1 went right past the end inside the breakwater and all the way back,

Al

You must be part Eskimo..

 

[wedivebc]

You must be part Eskimo..

Naw, its easy. Rebreathers keep your insides warm. My cold tolerance is increased by about 50% on CCR.

 

[Hyper-limits]

Naw, its easy. Rebreathers keep your insides warm. My cold tolerance is increased by about 50% on CCR.

Right, that definitely one of the advantage of diving CCR. When the loop temperature is 6 to 10 degree warmer than the water it does keep you warmer. One of the dive at the Breakwater this week had a runtime of 138 minutes which is doable on OC with a lots of gas but you would be colder that for sure. The only part of my body that was cold on that dive was my hands it was getting a lot harder to inject O2 manually but I didn't have too anyway.

Al

 

[MarkH]

10-15 feet at the Lord Jim wreck in Mill Bay.

 

[Hyper-limits]

Excellent viz (50+ft) this morning at Xmas PT.

 

[MarkH]

40-50' vis below 15 feet deep at McKenzie Bight today.

 

[MarkH]

15 feet max at Ogden Point today.