Any RI Dive reports ?

[Gidds]

Hot dogs taste ten times better when cooked over an itty bitty flame on a stick, in the rain, while wearing a ridiculous SI outfit and freezing your rearend off in October!
He forgot to mention that the big kettle sitting next to me is full of warm water for suit loading. He also forgot to mention that he was pumping gas in his wetsuit! :11: :10:

 

[ScubaSarus]

That reminds me of our Halloween night dive at potters cove 3 years ago. When we got out it was so cold we decided to not take off the wet suits and we rode back to the hotel and walked into the room dripping wet. Oh how I miss the Roachman Inn.

P.S. I checked out those photos. Whose wearing that strange IDDS hood or what ever that means. Is that a brand name.

 

[JohnL]

yeah...it was bloody cold this weekend. We were planning a second dive but blew it off when one of my buddies ended up shivering with blue lips.

I always carry hot water(for the suit), hot tea, a full length cag, a synthetic winter jacket, and plenty of warm dry clothes this time of year.

At least they water was warm though. I am really looking forward to another dive in the warm, tropical waters of Rhode Island.

John

 

[Gidds]

P.S. I checked out those photos. Whose wearing that strange IDDS hood or what ever that means. Is that a brand name.

SOMEBODY is cruisin' for a bruisin'!

 

[RIOceanographer]

I spent all day out on the Bay doing some working dives for URI setting up this crazy underwater current measurement array. It was a big project.... the high point of which was doing a giant stride entry off the stern of the 185 ft long R/V Endeavor (luckily I didn't have to climb back on the same ship at the end of the dive)!!

The air temps were mid forties with a pretty stiff NE wind most of the day. Very nice day to be diving dry. We were diving offshore of the URI Bay Campus in the West Passage of Narragansett Bay. Vis was pretty good, probably 15 ft but there wasn't much ambient light due to all the clouds. Water temps were 59 degrees at 30 ft.