DaleC
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It is what it is: [video=youtube;dI3u99FsPVI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dI3u99FsPVI&feature=youtu.be[/video]
Drift with a twist
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ferris213
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Yikes that was fast. Looks like heaps of fun though. Great video.
waterpirate
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I would love to ride that ride! thanx for shareing. Any cash in that wallet?
Eric
Eric
That makes me a little home sick. I used to drift dive below the Oahe Dam and it was one of my favorite spots when I first started diving. I have around 300 dives similar to that one. The depth was a little deeper (30-35' shallowing to around 15') and we'd have currents up to about 5 knots when all seven tunnels were running but some parts could be a little faster (restriction at Diver's point).
Back then we'd do it in a very clean single tank back mount configuration and that allowed you to get right down on the bottom where the flow is a bit more turbulent and a bit slower in the event you needed to hold position or slow for a bit to maintain buddy contact or pick up an item. (I paid for a complete set of dive gear by recovering, cleaning, re-hooking and selling fishing lures.) We also tended to keep our fin tips down, just over or actually gliding on the bottom. It prevented our fins from trying to pass the rest of us and again kept us a little lower in the water column.
If I were doing it today in side mount, I'd ensure the tanks were parallel to the flow, and riding fairly high and up in my armpits both for better streamlining and a thinner horizontal profile, but more particularly in this case, to ensure that nothing was dragging on the bottom or low enough to snag anything. I'd also make sure the tails were short enough to prevent the tank from trying to move forward or rise in the flow. I normally leave the SPGs pointing up so they angle up and inward sightly to the lay against the center of my chest, but in this case, with short dives in shallow water, I'd consider swapping ports and angle them down along the tank.
This would be a great dive to do within 72s or even better LP 45s as side mount tanks.
Back then we'd do it in a very clean single tank back mount configuration and that allowed you to get right down on the bottom where the flow is a bit more turbulent and a bit slower in the event you needed to hold position or slow for a bit to maintain buddy contact or pick up an item. (I paid for a complete set of dive gear by recovering, cleaning, re-hooking and selling fishing lures.) We also tended to keep our fin tips down, just over or actually gliding on the bottom. It prevented our fins from trying to pass the rest of us and again kept us a little lower in the water column.
If I were doing it today in side mount, I'd ensure the tanks were parallel to the flow, and riding fairly high and up in my armpits both for better streamlining and a thinner horizontal profile, but more particularly in this case, to ensure that nothing was dragging on the bottom or low enough to snag anything. I'd also make sure the tails were short enough to prevent the tank from trying to move forward or rise in the flow. I normally leave the SPGs pointing up so they angle up and inward sightly to the lay against the center of my chest, but in this case, with short dives in shallow water, I'd consider swapping ports and angle them down along the tank.
This would be a great dive to do within 72s or even better LP 45s as side mount tanks.
fdarden
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That was a lot of fun to watch. Thanks for posting
I found a wallet like that in recently lost condition once with a substantial amount of cash in it (a couple hundred). I called the guy and returned it. He was very grateful as it was all the cash he had left until payday and he was trying to figure out what he was join to do when I called him. I got a lot more personal satisfaction out of returning it then I'd have ever gotten spending it.
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Dr Dog
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very cool!!
I have been diving the Niagara River once a week, a bit deeper, but I think it moves about the same speed
I have been diving the Niagara River once a week, a bit deeper, but I think it moves about the same speed
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OK that was just FUN!!!
Thank you for taking us along.
The You-R-There thing is so strong I kept tilting my head or the screen, trying to keep the gravel "below me".
Excellent system to capture the fun.
Thanks!
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Claudette
"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough."
--Albert Einstein
Thank you for taking us along.
The You-R-There thing is so strong I kept tilting my head or the screen, trying to keep the gravel "below me".
Excellent system to capture the fun.
Thanks!
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Claudette
"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough."
--Albert Einstein
Skookumchuck
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Clearly you don't suffer from insanity, you revel in it. Do it again when the sockeye are in the river.
fire_diver
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WOW, that looks like a fun dive. Looks like you have to be fast, fast, fast to make a grab off the bottom! Thanks for the fun video.
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