diving sat 10th

[bhapps24]

Welcome to the board hurleyskis. as for sat I think the more the merrier. I would like to lean towards early am 8-9ish to get started. Does that sound good to you? Did you have a particular site in mind for sat?

 

[bhapps24]

I met up with hurleyskis and scubastew this morning in cad parking lot. After deciding on a site to go to we put all our gear in one vehical to save parking for other divers at the site. Then a person from cad asked if we were going to leave a car in the lot. I replide yes up at the top. She then suggested parking at the free lot near the rockport dump. I thought great lets do that and proceeded there. Well heads up it doesnt open till 11:00am. (wow the rockportians really don't want any one there) we gave up on the save space thing and went to pebble. 1st dive we planned and suited up for the dive. As we got to the water my safe 2nd touched the water and began a pretty mild free flow. I decide to stay out and see if I could fix it. After stopping the problem I left the air on to test and picked up trash, enough to fill a small bag. The dives seem so short when your down, but when on the beach it takes forever. Stu and John get back and do thier rest and swap tanks. I'm really jonesing now for a dive. We all go back for the next dive and (what the) it happens again. Time to sit out and wait again (john was using a tank and some weight). When stu out of the blue said use my reg I already did one. I said no at first be he offered again by adding I will snorkel around. Wow talk about random acts of kindness. After accepting his offer john and I did our dive the usual untill on the way in at about 15ft I saw the claw of the biggest bug I have seen to date. Even though he looked to big to keep I wanted to catch him just to say look what i caught. After 5-10 mins of trying to get him it was time to give up down to 400psi. Oh well! Mabey next time. now to wright this in my log book thanks to scubastew and hurleyskis.

 

[hurleyskis]

Well thanks to Stu and Steve i am now past my first cold water diving experience. The dive(s) were a lot of fun and i was surprised at how nice the vis. was. Steve provided quite the show trying to catch that lobster. I give him an A+++ for effort. Another 400 psi in the tank and he probably would have got it.

Sunday my girlfriend and I dove at old garden beach with the folks from PGDive and had two more great dives. My girlfriend experienced her (and my) first underwater problem. Her regulator was free flowing at the end of our second dive in 15-20 feet of water. She made an attempt to fix it but being rental gear she wasn't extremely familiar with the gear. We surfaced and by this point she was almost completely out of air. We determined that she must have hit the adjustment on the second stage while clearing her mask and not realized it and after doing this several times the reg. was free flowing.

Lessons learned.....stay calm (it's only air flowing out...no big deal), get the free flowing regulator away from you so you can see, switch to backup, surface and investigate the problem above water.

I think we'll be getting her some of her own equipment asap. Although PGDive has some of the best rental equipment i've seen, having your own gear that you are familiar with is the way to go.

Hope to dive with you guys soon,

John