Question Drop off dive at Cocoview Resort

[Rilelen]

Thanks and sweet! Will i be able to grab my dry bag before rinsing and stowing my gear? I have a DIN 1st stage and the dust cap which will be in my dry bag needs to be on it prior to  rinsing.

Yep, you can do all that in any order, it’s all in the same spot.

 

[OMyMyOHellYes]

Yep, you can do all that in any order, it’s all in the same spot.

Can add "hit the head" to your list. "Take a shower". "Watch the sand crabs"

 

[covediver]

I am older than you and have no problem with the exit. It is probably the best marked most gradual exit I have seen in 40 years of diving. The hardest part is the short walk from the exit to the dive shack. Even then, you can leave your tank at the exit point and come back and get it if you want. I have been twice in the last three years.

 

[Allen-1]

Thanks and sweet! Will i be able to grab my dry bag before rinsing and stowing my gear? I have a DIN 1st stage and the dust cap which will be in my dry bag needs to be on it prior to  rinsing.

@Rilelen has posted a couple pics showing the relationship of the gear buildings to the boats/dock. You'll have a locker assigned to you in the building where all your gear is staged/stowed during your stay.

Maybe this will work for you -

Take your BCD onto the boat, take the dust cap off, hook up regulator to your tank, put dust cap in your locker.

Dive, surface interval, dive.

Walk from shore in front of main building back to gear locker. Take BCD/tank off and set down on ground in front of your locker. Get dust cap from your locker, disconnect regulator, blow the water off and put the dust cap on. Remove bcd from tank, go dump equipment in rinse tank. Rinse self off, put gear in locker and go log your dives...

This is probably overthinking it. Every time that I swam in, the boat was there, and the bag that I keep my sunglasses, phone and miscellaneous crap in was easily available - all I had to do was walk through the gear building, onto the boat and grab it.

 

[Rilelen]

Why?

I can't think of one good reason to remove it from the first stage and a lot of reasons not to do it.

I assume, because the regulator will be on his tank that he is diving...

 

[dflaher]

I assume, because the regulator will be on his tank that he is diving...

This, plus perhaps I didn't mention it but my reg is DIN, so I don't want to attach the dust cap (via string or whatever) to the first stage while diving. Makes for more work drying the cap after diving.

 

[Rilelen]

Yup, I think you said it was DIN at some point (or I assumed that). I don't keep my DIN dust caps on my regs either (entanglement hazard, plus I don't want them to get wet and trap moisture/salt in the reg).

 

[dflaher]

Yup, I think you said it was DIN at some point (or I assumed that). I don't keep my DIN dust caps on my regs either (entanglement hazard, plus I don't want them to get wet and trap moisture/salt in the reg).

Ditto. This will be my first DIN rodeo. As such I'm trying to re-train my not-as-young-brain, which probably explains my angst over this, so thanks.

 

[mattfish]

The distance between the boat and the dive lockers is about 20 paces. So whether you leave the cap in you bag on the boat (it will be there when you get back) or in your dive locker, it will be equally easy to grab it before you remove the reg from your tank.