vr2o
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Great company, I gotta keep improving buoyancy.I dove Saturday morning at the bridge. I arrived at 7:15am for a 9:51 HT. The sidewalk parking was full, and the 2nd row had 10 spots or so. Within 15 min, the 2nd row was full.
Since the last night dive, Blue Heron Bridge Trolls III, I've been getting a lot of friend requests on FB after my photos were shared in the BHB Club group. I had so many people approaching me, asking if I was Christian Jones, wanting to talk about what I found. I even received a message from someone who works with Paul Humann, author of the Reef Fish ID books, asking if they could use a couple of the pics in a project. I guess I did something right last week. A peak of my short-lived underwater photography fame. It was fun though, and I enjoyed getting to meet people who are so passionate about this stuff. I really enjoy hearing about the science of it all, but I suck at remembering it all (names, facts, etc). I wish I could talk the same talk, but I'm just an idiot who got lucky and found some cool looking critters and took pictures.
Vis was 10ft in the beach area, 15ft under the east bridge. Of course, once divers started entering up current, vis got worse while everyone kicked up silt, but it only temporary.
I dove in a group of 4. @SubNeo, an out of towner named Tammy, and @vr2o. Tammy is an excellent diver, instructor, etc. vr2o is new and wanting to dive more. Tammy picked up that he didn't have enough weights. I brought extra weight in case this happened, so we got another 4 lbs on him and went diving. vr2o lasted over 90 minutes on his first dive, which was really good.
I found a couple of nudi's, but I could not get any good pictures. There was a surge which through the subjects and me around. When you're trying to take a picture that magnified and you only have a few inches of focal distance to play with, it made for a frustrating shot. I hit several of the usual spots for nudis, sea slugs, etc, and found nothing.
At the end of the day, we had a good dive. SubNeo picked up a bunch of trash. Tammy got some cool pics, and vr2o went diving (and did pretty well for his first time).
At the end, I think the initial weight was right, I was testing this "new" BCD and it felt weird. At the end of the dive, I felt it was too bulky for my preference.
It's always good to have those weights, just in case.
It was great to dive with Tammy. She was excellent indeed.
We did have a good dive... and good photography talk... thanks