cfelliot
Contributor
Last week while doing our morning drop-off dive at Coco View in Roatan I had a learning experience.
At Coco view the second boat dive is a drop-off dive on either Newmans Wall in the southwest or Coco View Wall in the Northeast side of the channel. You then swim to shore. On this dive we were dropped at Newmans.
We, group of 4, were coming in with the wall to our left and were at about 90 ft. Somehow, we crossed the channel and were headed out Coco View wall. Bad mistake in that we all assumed the wall was still on our left and didnt check our compass heading lesson #2, group consciousness isnt always right!!
We came up to 45ft at 750psi and surfaced at 500psi, but had gone a fair distance down Coco View wall. I was down to 250psi after the SS.
What would have been a simple surface swim back in the other direction became a pain in the ^%^%^ back swim rafting on the BCDs.
I will never dive again without a snorkel!
At Coco view the second boat dive is a drop-off dive on either Newmans Wall in the southwest or Coco View Wall in the Northeast side of the channel. You then swim to shore. On this dive we were dropped at Newmans.
We, group of 4, were coming in with the wall to our left and were at about 90 ft. Somehow, we crossed the channel and were headed out Coco View wall. Bad mistake in that we all assumed the wall was still on our left and didnt check our compass heading lesson #2, group consciousness isnt always right!!
We came up to 45ft at 750psi and surfaced at 500psi, but had gone a fair distance down Coco View wall. I was down to 250psi after the SS.
What would have been a simple surface swim back in the other direction became a pain in the ^%^%^ back swim rafting on the BCDs.
I will never dive again without a snorkel!