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Since my FG trip was postponed for three weeks, my instructor asked if I wanted to do my AOW navigation dive at Smith Lake (Vidor) since he would be out there. "SURE!" was my reply. Oh how I should have thought about this one!
I had been out there the day before, helping pick up trash in the swimming end. Very fun, and visibility was about 5 feet. It was about 10 feet during my OW, so I figured it was just a bad day. Sunday, after a constant shower for the previous six hours, it was 2-3 feet! Not necessarily bad if you're going first, but since I was second, following the first guy meant I also had to swim through his HUGE silt trail. I kid you not--in that, the visibility dropped to 3 inches; so bad that I had to raise up to see my wrist compass, and I was already off course, so I had to start over.
By the time I got back to the start, another guy had gone, so I was now swimming through three silt trails. Everyone had to start over at least three times.
I feel like an idiot--I had to start over four times before I got it. But I did, and my other dives--square and retrieval--were cake.

Does 2-3ft-diminishing-to-3" visibility qualify me for an honorary swamp diver membership if I haven't paid the fee yet? :D
 
You still need to dive with another Swamper to become a Swamper but you're now more than qualified to dive most of our local mudholes! What you described happens everywhere we go!
 
Ya forgot to mention the perch bites!!!!:rfish: :rfish: :rfish: :rfish:
 
FWNurseshark once bubbled...
Ya forgot to mention the perch bites!!!!:rfish: :rfish: :rfish: :rfish:

THANK YOU SIR, MAY I HAVE ANOTHER???

:wacko:
 
"NUK...NUK...NUK.... where have ya'll been?! Poor Knobber doesn't have a clue just how strange swampers are. Sure ya want in?
 
hell yeah I'm sure! If I can dive in the swamp's conditions then currents, sharks, out-of-air (hee hee) would be no problem!! :D
 
Knobber- I don't know about you but I don't ever want to tempt running out of air. Making the "awww" sound in an emergency ascent - I used to think mainly prevented your lungs from colasping which is life threatening in itself but recently taking a nitrox class there was a story of an 8yr old who played with his father's regulator and then swam across the pool and died instantly of an air embolism. What saved a lawsuit I understood was that whatever course the father took instructed never ever hold your breath. I don't believe 8 yr olds (it's 12 I think) are allowed to "play" with this equipment anyways but the point is how serious it is. I apologize for sounding like a lecturer but I've seen too much in my work. I love to have fun or else I wouldn't be in this sport myself. I wonder though- skiing- you don't have to be certified, skydiving you don't either. I wonder why scuba requires a card.
 
FWNurseshark once bubbled...
Making the "awww" sound in an emergency ascent - I used to think mainly prevented your lungs from colasping...
To make sure it is stated correctly for any non-divers lurking in the thread, making the "awww" or "errrr" sound during a Controled Emergency Swimming Ascent is to ensure your airway is open to allow the expanding air in your lungs to escape. This reduces the risk of a Lung Overexpansion Injury.

(you had the right info/idea, I just want to make sure the concept was stated clearly)


I have also thought about how interesting it is that c-cards are not required for other "dangerous" sports.

<laugh> perhaps in some (not so good) cases, we should include dating, parenting, and marriage?
 

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