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Today was "pretty flat" and we went to Sea Caves. Drifting it would be easy, but we wanted to all dive. There is a wall that drops to 300 feet or so, mirroring the volcanic sheer wall of the topside. There IS a bouy very close to the rock wall about 40 ft off the wall at 20 feet.
You have to be pretty brave and agile to get to the bouy. Pointing towards the rock lava wall, with the swell behing me (long, slow swell), I felt the swell could move the boat into the rocks. My freediver found the pigtail on the ball (subsurface) but I did not have the nerve to get that close. The swell was out of the south, and we were pointed N into the wall.
Any tips for achieving this? All I had figured out was that we would clip off before we cut the engines and start them up before unclipping, because a dead boat in this spot would ..not be pretty.
I'll upload a picture if I have one.
My cohorts thought I was being a weenie, but I just don't have the experience yet.
(they don't either)
The scope in this swell, this close to the rock wall would need to be perfect, it seemed.
We saw lots of whales....once three big tales all flipped in unison.
You have to be pretty brave and agile to get to the bouy. Pointing towards the rock lava wall, with the swell behing me (long, slow swell), I felt the swell could move the boat into the rocks. My freediver found the pigtail on the ball (subsurface) but I did not have the nerve to get that close. The swell was out of the south, and we were pointed N into the wall.
Any tips for achieving this? All I had figured out was that we would clip off before we cut the engines and start them up before unclipping, because a dead boat in this spot would ..not be pretty.
I'll upload a picture if I have one.
My cohorts thought I was being a weenie, but I just don't have the experience yet.
(they don't either)
The scope in this swell, this close to the rock wall would need to be perfect, it seemed.
We saw lots of whales....once three big tales all flipped in unison.