Gilboa Deep Side

[diver_paula]

There is not much on the deep side.
Yes it is worth go on the deep side if you want to do some pratice for deep diving.

Agreed, deep practice is about it. & having the platform at 80' gives you a good place to do dexterity or mental practices to compare to the results on the surface.

The only other feature I can recall is a man's face in the side of the rock wall. & that's subjective as to whether you really see it.

 

[MikeFerrara]

There is not much on the deep side.
Yes it is worth go on the deep side if you want to do some pratice for deep diving.

The deep side has some really neat looking areas.

But...it's not practice for deep diving...it is deep diving. Enough people have been hurt on the deep side at Gilbos that I'd recommend being practiced before diving it.

120 - 140 feet of dark cold water is about as serious as it gets in recreational diving. If there was some current and waves it would really be there.

 

[rab]

Agreed, deep practice is about it. & having the platform at 80' gives you a good place to do dexterity or mental practices to compare to the results on the surface.

The only other feature I can recall is a man's face in the side of the rock wall. & that's subjective as to whether you really see it.

How narc'd are you when you see this so-called face? LOL

-Rob

 

[diverbrian]

There are also a couple of boats by the deep dock and I do like following the curve of the wall there.

I am with Mike though. This is a deep dive in preparation for deep on wrecks or elsewhere. The cold there actually makes it a more serious deep dive than many of the other ones that I have done. The lack of features on the bottom makes Narcosis easy as it reminds me of a barren moonscape at times.

PS... The silo is also along the wall on the deep side at about 60 ft.

 

[diver_paula]

How narc'd are you when you see this so-called face? LOL

-Rob

LOL! I was the un-narced but naive one that never found the darn thing but looked for it on several dives!

Paula

 

[yknot]

Last time I saw the form it had a list of things for you to check off if you had them including O2, environmental sealed reg, O2, with an instructor...ect.

That's not a complete list but it's always read as if to say that if you were with an instructor you didn't need anything else.

I know that's the case because we've always joked about the idea that being an instructor must somehow do as well as having all the other stuff. LOL

I remember the suggested list of equipment along with the warning about regs free flowing below 80'. I had heard a rumor that without some acceptible form of redundancy they weren't allowing deep dives, in a response to the incidents attributible to the deep side in the last couple of years (mostly free flows). The two forms of acceptible redundancy I heard were dual regs (H valve, twins/pony) or inline second stage shut down valves. I was just trying to find out what recent experience has been for diving the deep side, at least with management knowledge.

 

[MikeFerrara]

I remember the suggested list of equipment along with the warning about regs free flowing below 80'. I had heard a rumor that without some acceptible form of redundancy they weren't allowing deep dives, in a response to the incidents attributible to the deep side in the last couple of years (mostly free flows). The two forms of acceptible redundancy I heard were dual regs (H valve, twins/pony) or inline second stage shut down valves. I was just trying to find out what recent experience has been for diving the deep side, at least with management knowledge.

Last I knew they will let AOW certified divers file a deep dive plan and dive the deep side.

 

[rjchandler]

If you look in the right place you will also find Godzilla on the deep side. It is also the best place to see paddle fish. It is a good place to practice wall diving - just because its deep doesn't mean you have to go deep.

 

[rab]

OK, looking at the "Profile for Diving on the Deep Side of Gilboa Quarry" (picked up 17-Jul-04):

No one is permitted to dive below eighty feet without one or more of the following items:

(check those that apply)

• Not diving below eighty feet
• Doubles
• Pony Bottle
• Redundant First Stage
• Under Instructor Supervision

Also helpful, but not required are the following items:

(check those that apply)

• Hang Bottle at 10 feet
• Oxygen Bottle
• Environmentalized Regulators
• Computer(s)
• Dive Light
• Nitrox (% ___ Oxygen)
• Tri-Mix (% ___ Oxygen, % ___ Helium)

There's a section for describing your square or multi-level profile.

In the text just above the signature, the last sentence is:

The dive coordinator reserves the right to check my depth gauge, bottom timer, and/or computer once my dive is completed.

 

[Tiny Bubbles]

No one is permitted to dive below eight feet without one or more of the following items:

You're kidding, right?