Akumal dive video

[browntrout]

I just finished putting together a video of our dive in Akumal March 15th. We met a great guy from Tulum who video taped the dive and has taken the tiem to get all the footage to us in pieces over the past few weeks. I pieced them together and added some music.

YouTube - Half Moon Bay Drift Dive March 15 2009

 

[Diver Lori]

Lots of divers with dangling equipment were on your dive.......

 

[oceancat]

Thank you for sharing. All of my Akumal dives got blown out when I was there the following week.

 

[browntrout]

Lots of divers with dangling equipment were on your dive.......

We'll it's not really fair to blame everyone else since I was the culprit. I think I had my mask on straight and my fins properly tensioned though.

 

[TSandM]

Looks like the reef there is better for sessile invertebrates than what we saw in Cozumel. One of these days, I'm definitely going to have to take a day off from the caves and do a little reef diving down there.

I have to admit, though, as I watched the guy with the octo hanging down his back, that I would not want to be waiting for a breath as he tried to find it to give it to me A tip for coping with rental gear -- a wide rubber band makes a pretty good octo holder. Thread it through a d-ring and then through itself, and put the mouthpiece of the octo in the resulting loop. It will stay pretty well, and is still quite simple to remove with just a little pull.

 

[Diver Lori]

I have to admit, though, as I watched the guy with the octo hanging down his back, that I would not want to be waiting for a breath as he tried to find it to give it to me A tip for coping with rental gear -- a wide rubber band makes a pretty good octo holder. Thread it through a d-ring and then through itself, and put the mouthpiece of the octo in the resulting loop. It will stay pretty well, and is still quite simple to remove with just a little pull.

Also consider putting a couple bolt snaps from the hardware in your safe a dive kit, add some zip ties and about a foot of soft pliable surgical tubing and you're ready to snug up ill prepared rental gear. Between that and a few wide rubber bands, you should be diving more streamlined.

My students don't get out of my class if they don't know how to shore up danglies. Check out www.stupiddivertricks.com for more useful tips and stories.