Easter weekend, how many dives?

[Torgo]

Down here we get a 4 day weekend if your lucky. I got 3 daygoing to go in for 4 hours tomorrow on big bucks to get the bulk of the load cleaned up and sorted.
So i've managed to fit as many dives in theis weekend as possible. 1 thursday night, 2 friday, 1 saturday, 2 today and i'm going for a recovery dive tomorow after work.
I think this is the right way to spend life.
Ps Ran in to my boss whilst setting up today, he was out for a leasurly strole down near his beach house and i think i was the last person he expected to see trying to squeeze in to my wet wet suit.. Think he got a shock.
pps an under water easter egg hunt is a bad idea if you got a current running. oh well i hope the fish like chocolate.

 

[Halthron]

Seven, of which four were deco dives. Spent 10 hours in the water Thurs - Sat.

 

[Packhorse]

Only managed to get two on friday at Great Barrier Island. Would have stayed for another 2 on saturday but the weather was closing in and if we stayed we may have been stuck there till tuesday. Which on reflection sounds good.

 

[SteFord]

Ten Dives... in the keys for the wknd...

 

[caseybird]

Friday I did an "Introduction to KISS rebreather" course at my LDS. Excellent intro, about 2 hours of classroom and prep, 45 minutes in the pool. Very different from open circuit, it demands a fair level of familiarity with gas theory, and a different set of dive skills. Maintaining an even volume of gas in the system (you and the rebreather) is very important, and maintaining bouyancy control with lung volume doesn't work. Different, interesting, and would require a big commitment in training and cash.

Saturday, 2 dives in the Quarry. Open circuit, dry suit, single tank with a brand new 40 cuft slung as a bailout bottle. 44 degrees. We reached 60 feet and 25 minutes on the first dive, shot a bag and prepared to ascend. Major freeflow. I mean can't see through the bubbles, what's going on freeflow. Turned out to be the bungied octo. My buddy approached ready to share, Since I was still breathing I banged the octo a few times, hit the purge button, nothing changed. I then deployed the stage hose, switched regs. OK signs, and my buddy shut down my main valve. Proceeded to do a normal ascent with 3 minute safety stop.
Nice, just like the training.

The freeflow was caused by the hose loosening from the octo second stage. It wasn't ice up, I used the primary for bag inflation. I lost about 800+ pounds from a LP steel 98 tank during the freeflow, and used aprox 1000 pounds from the alum 40. Roughly 12- 15 cubic feet.
We tightened the hose and did a second dive. Nice.

Lessons learned:
2 fully redundant systems rock.
Buddies are good.
training is good.
13 cuft pony might do, might not.
It's way nice to know you have a 40 cu ft reserve.
Check the connections at the beginning of the season. Do it myself.
I didn't panic.
Orally inflating the BC is not just for OW training.

Today, no diving. Heck of an interesting weekend!
Happy Holidays!

 

[Santa]

I scheduled 2 boat dives and wound up doing none because I was DMing and the customer forgot his drysuit at the shop - so I had to give him mine because that's what a PADI kind of DM I am (should've triple-checked).

anyway, way to spend a day at sea.

Some other guys on the boat did 4 degrees celsius in 7mm wetsuits. Somewhere along the line they (The wimps ;0) lost the craving for a second dive and the captain opted to call it a day (think he had to go rescue some boater who'd run out of gas anyway - the bonus, the bonus).

 

[cobaltblue]

Three up here in Michigan. Ordered new drysuit undies last week--about a week too late. It was a little chilly. Had to do shore dives because my new boat won't be in until mid-may, forgot how spoiled I am. No sand on the boat is a big plus. I'll be picking sand out of my dive gear for the rest of the week just to get ready to do it again next weekend. Can't wait til the boat comes in! But, shore diving is better than no diving, I guess .

Happy Easter Everyone!!!

 

[Gary D.]

None I hope.

If we go it won't be a good thing.

We're planning on diving mid week, not over the weekend.

Gary D.

 

[diver_sam_851027]

I'm so jealous of everyone getting to do so many dives!!! I did one on Friday, it was 33 degree water. Made it 15 minutes before the regs froze up and freeflowed...in hindsight I should have used a better set than the rentals I chose. Toasty warm in the drysuit tho...didn't even get an ice cream headache!! Hoping to get out again next Sunday.

 

[rmannix]

None.
But my boat is ready to launch. I use blue bottom paint and now I look like Papa Smurf.