Gilboa 6/2-6/4 DUI Demos

[scubapolly]

Thanks for the summary Polly. It's amazing to see the impact of 300+ dives over 3 days. I can't even imagine 2' viz around the plane. You'd practically bump into it before you'd see it. Any idea how long it takes for it to settle out?

It is probably fine by now.

The area around dock 2 was trashed on Sat at 5pm when the DUI demos ended. We swung by there on our night dive around 8:30 to try to find a lost weight pocket and the vis was great.

 

[darkmoon3d]

Diving was great. I left Indianpolis around 3:30 friday and got there around 7. Had been to Gilboa back in 02 and sinice then had moved to Florida and allowed warm water diving to spoil me. Living back home in Indy this year and figured if I were going to get used to divnig cold water then dry suits were the way to go. Being low on money a demo would help out.

Setup tent friday and woke up bright and early saturday morning at 8 for 9am dive. DUI staff were very helpful in trying me into suits and offering information. Didn't realize until that night at DUI presentation that man helping me (Dick) was president of DUI.

Had my own Bare thermal undersuit 200 I had bought and wanted to try that out. Didn't work as well as what DUI had to offer though. I get cold too easiliy. Surface temp was around 68 and bottom temp (at pipes) was 43. Really fun to try drysuit experience. Did two dives Saturday and one more on Sunday before driving back.

Great to learn about dry suits too. I always thought they'd be really dry and incredibly warm; similiar to winter freezing multi layer clothing routine. Instead they were dry and warm but also get damp alot. You can still feel the cold water outside suit which is pretty weird. First dive dove without dry gloves and tried dry gloves on next two dives with great difference. It seems that multi-tasking routine of worrying how cold you are is greatly diminished when using dry suits. Only wet part exposed to water is hood and face.

I assume just as many other first time dry suit users that buoyancy is real pain at anything above 15 ft. Was using up to 29 pounds on one dive and still didn't help with buoyancy at that depth. Makes me really want to take class now.

Who else was there? I didn't say much but was driving red mercury sable. I'm 26 and wore that dumb lookinig bucket hat alot.

 

[scubapolly]

When you are diving your own dry suit it tends to be a little drier than the demo suits. The person before you has a leak, gets the undies wet, and the inside of the suit gets damp.... not enough time between divers for that to dry out.

Also it was pretty hot this weekend, sweat becomes a factor for the dryness.

I was there and saw Stef and Ber as well. I have a DUI suit with a burgandy overlay and dive doubles I was diving off of dock 4/5 when I wasn't with DUI and Drive an Avalanche. Stef is the guy with the funny Italian accent and was camped at the top of the "shortcut path" to the DUI booth- and was helping (or at least standing around) at the DUI booth ALL weekend. Ber was only there on sunday another hot chick instructor

 

[Ber Rabbit]

Ber was only there on sunday another hot chick instructor

Hotties gotta stick together

If you saw a diver in the water on Sunday wearing a hood with rabbit ears on it that was me :blinking: I have a dark gray Chevy HHR (looks like a PT Cruiser on steroids) that has a stripe package that says "Wicked" and there is also a shark on each rear quarter panel.
Ber :lilbunny:

 

[Azotino]

When you are diving your own dry suit it tends to be a little drier than the demo suits. The person before you has a leak, gets the undies wet, and the inside of the suit gets damp.... not enough time between divers for that to dry out.

Also it was pretty hot this weekend, sweat becomes a factor for the dryness.

I was there and saw Stef and Ber as well. I have a DUI suit with a burgandy overlay and dive doubles I was diving off of dock 4/5 when I wasn't with DUI and Drive an Avalanche. Stef is the guy with the funny Italian accent and was camped at the top of the "shortcut path" to the DUI booth- and was helping (or at least standing around) at the DUI booth ALL weekend. Ber was only there on sunday another hot chick instructor

Funny Italian accent, did you mean sexy Italian accent...., you are funny Polly you are funny.
And is true I was standing around the DUI booth, leading 14 dives in 3 days :mooner:

 

[Divin'Papaw]

Funny Italian accent, did you mean sexy Italian accent...., you are funny Polly you are funny.
And is true I was standing around the DUI booth, leading 14 dives in 3 days :mooner:

I was waiting for someone to use the new "mooner" smilie. Very funny!

Wow ... that's a lot of dives. 14 in 3 days. I'm in pretty good shape and I'd be absolutely exhaused after that. You win the Iron Diver award for the weekend!

 

[Azotino]

I was waiting for someone to use the new "mooner" smilie. Very funny!

Wow ... that's a lot of dives. 14 in 3 days. I'm in pretty good shape and I'd be absolutely exhaused after that. You win the Iron Diver award for the weekend!

7 dives Friday, 4dives Sat. and 3 Sunday....and I wasn't exhaused, I was :vuur1:
Where is my Ginger

Originally Posted by Divin'Hoosier
Thanks for the summary Polly. It's amazing to see the impact of 300+ dives over 3 days. I can't even imagine 2' viz around the plane. You'd practically bump into it before you'd see it. Any idea how long it takes for it to settle out?

There it was a group of Boy Scout, YMCA students, some other student from other agency ....Polly in the water and the Viz it was bad.