Haigh Quarry, July 18th

[TheScubaBOB]

I will, definitely. I still haven't really pushed the thermal limits of my wetsuit, and I want to see if my reg will freeflow. Besides, I've never been there.

Now there's a diver who understands. It should never be about doing it just to do it.

Good reasons to do the deep hole:

1) Test personal limits and expand them.

2) We bought all of the gear needed for the environment, we should put it to use.

3) Most of the things I want to dive on are located between 80 & 130 ft, Quarry dives are a good way to get more comfortable "deeper".

4) Wazee Lake is twice the drive (but well worth it)

Seriously, BDP you are a buddy I'd be comfortable with at any depth.

FWIW, Sunday at Wazee Lake I made it all the way to 130ft! Why did I want to got that deep? Well I know I could get my Deep Diver Speciality with 4 dives deeper than 60 ft. Both places my LDS do training dive (Haigh & Pearl) only go to 80ft. I don't want to get the Deep Specialty (which would rate me to 130ft) with 4 dive to 65ft.

Now this dive doesn't count as one of my Deep Training Dives as there was no instructor & I didn't complete the exact skills needed for the next of my training dives but I did practice Deep Skills. I took down a color slate to observe the changes in color at depths. I used my redundant air source (30cuft pony) and finally I didn't violate any NDLs!

And, those who've dove with me before will notice that I've overcome the full hood issue. Again this was accomplished by pushing against a limitation of mine a little at a time over several months.

 

[wreckless1]

It should never be about doing it just to do it.

It should be about building character, goddamit! Wanna babysit me down there while I do mask drills?

3) Most of the things I want to dive on are located between 80 & 130 ft, Quarry dives are a good way to get more comfortable "deeper".

Yup--I'd rather find out now that I can't handle 45 degrees in a wetsuit *before* I've blown the $100 charter fee and angered my insta-buddy by calling the dive right after the descent...

Besides, the deep hole might be the only part of Haigh with any viz. It really sucked this past weekend. Actually, it was as bad as Pearl, but I guess you can't go lower than zero. (I'm really looking forward to the Flower Garden banks!)

And, those who've dove with me before will notice that I've overcome the full hood issue. Again this was accomplished by pushing against a limitation of mine a little at a time over several months.

Congratulations.

 

[luckydays]

Hi Peter, glad to see that you are going to come out to the quarry with us.

Ok everybody, whoever is coming bring something to eat and some extra for the group. I will bring hamburgers, buns, cheese and Charcoal. I hope the rest of you can bring a bit to eat as well so we can have a dive picnic day.

See you Saturday.
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[jepuskar]

you said buns

 

[TheScubaBOB]

Well, I have a 2 hr drive so I'll bring something that doesn't require refridgeration. I load up of chips, pretzels & such.

 

[luckydays]

you said buns

To bad you wont see the buns! Next time though. Once things settle out that is.

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[kjvander]

well unfortuantly there were some things that came up at work for the weekend...both at work and at home work....so unfortunatly no diving for me this weekend....hope that ya'll have fun and a great time.

 

[Reallydg]

I think I have five or six divers coming along. I'll work on our side of the group to bring food/drinks as well.

 

[luckydays]

Excellent. Look forward to seeing everybody out.

I may need a bit of help while at the quarry though. I think I threw my back out and while it is ok right now, this morning it was on fire. It should be ok once in the water, but I may need help getting my gear in and out of the water. I know that I can count on you guys as you know I would return the favor any time (well anytime that my back was not feeling icky)