Sas
Contributor
Well I have real exciting news about my dives today (well exciting for me anyway 
). I finally got to dive on a wreck (J4 sub) 
. I have always wanted to dive on wrecks since I was a little kid and today was the day, and it was way better than I imagined 
Anyway, I went down the shot but was looking in the wrong direction so was thinking 'where is the sub??' I turned around eventually and saw the huge, dark (well it looked that way to me) sub under the sea, very cool. It was very calm so we got to go inside, that was the best bit! J4 is probably one of the few wrecks you can penetrate without training in Melbourne, as it is very large inside and there are many exits. You can only dive in there with no surge though. Had 18m vis too.
Had a bit of a scare inside though as my buddy hadn't turned his tank on very far, and at 28m it started breathing real hard so he indicated to me to turn his valves (I had no idea what was going on at this point - I thought he had problems with his first stage actually). Anyway, I turned it slightly and cut off his air!
Anyway, he did the OOA sign (remaining very calm too, given that we were at 28m inside a submarine without a clear ascent) and I gave him my occy straight away and sorted out the tank. He was so calm the whole way though, and given that he is going for DiveCon soon I think he will go very well, given he can keep his head with no air inside a submarine - def not the panicky kind. So yea, that was scary but he had no issues once the tank was turned on so we completed the dive. On the surface his SPG was stable with breathing so I, nor the boat crew who check air, did not pick up on the issue, so now I am going to always do a manual check of the tank valve rather than just most of the time.
Afterwards me and my two buddies checked out the back beach, which is only divable once in a blue moon (and given how many millions of big abalone we found, I doubt it is dived very often) because it is rough surf around sharp rocks. Today, it was almost completely flat, we had 20m viz and the landscape was really unusual as it is usually very rough so you get some interesting rock formations. Pics coming soon I hope - waiting for my buddies to upload
Anyway, great day of diving for me (apart from one big scare!) and I am so excited about diving on more wrecks. I will have to stick to the outside of the other wrecks around though! Any other stories from people's week?
). I finally got to dive on a wreck (J4 sub) . I have always wanted to dive on wrecks since I was a little kid and today was the day, and it was way better than I imagined Anyway, I went down the shot but was looking in the wrong direction so was thinking 'where is the sub??' I turned around eventually and saw the huge, dark (well it looked that way to me) sub under the sea, very cool. It was very calm so we got to go inside, that was the best bit! J4 is probably one of the few wrecks you can penetrate without training in Melbourne, as it is very large inside and there are many exits. You can only dive in there with no surge though. Had 18m vis too. Had a bit of a scare inside though as my buddy hadn't turned his tank on very far, and at 28m it started breathing real hard so he indicated to me to turn his valves (I had no idea what was going on at this point - I thought he had problems with his first stage actually). Anyway, I turned it slightly and cut off his air!
Anyway, he did the OOA sign (remaining very calm too, given that we were at 28m inside a submarine without a clear ascent) and I gave him my occy straight away and sorted out the tank. He was so calm the whole way though, and given that he is going for DiveCon soon I think he will go very well, given he can keep his head with no air inside a submarine - def not the panicky kind. So yea, that was scary but he had no issues once the tank was turned on so we completed the dive. On the surface his SPG was stable with breathing so I, nor the boat crew who check air, did not pick up on the issue, so now I am going to always do a manual check of the tank valve rather than just most of the time. Afterwards me and my two buddies checked out the back beach, which is only divable once in a blue moon (and given how many millions of big abalone we found, I doubt it is dived very often) because it is rough surf around sharp rocks. Today, it was almost completely flat, we had 20m viz and the landscape was really unusual as it is usually very rough so you get some interesting rock formations. Pics coming soon I hope - waiting for my buddies to upload
Anyway, great day of diving for me (apart from one big scare!) and I am so excited about diving on more wrecks.
I will have to stick to the outside of the other wrecks around though! Any other stories from people's week?
a big dive for you Sas and glad it ended well! 
