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Owning up to a buncha mistakes and realizing how preventable they should be is a great start to not making them again. It's also very difficult for a lot of people to do. Thanks for sharing
Hopping my way to full cave...
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I basically treat this thread as an online AAR, that we are supposed to do after a dive, but let's be honest isn't that common unless it is a glaring issue.
If I don't admit to my mistakes and try to move forward to prevent it, it can snowball to a much larger issue. And in tech diving, that can get someone killed.
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Well I am starting to really get a hang of the drysuit. There are times when I am less than perfect, but I am starting to be able to feel when I get an excess bubble in my legs and am able to tilt to get the air to my exhaust valve.
The DM here is also pretty surprised that I am able to get away with only 10lbs. I have to dive down to get the first few feet, and I don’t really feel like I have much if any excess negative buoyancy at the end of the dive. But so far it feels right.
The DM here is also pretty surprised that I am able to get away with only 10lbs. I have to dive down to get the first few feet, and I don’t really feel like I have much if any excess negative buoyancy at the end of the dive. But so far it feels right.
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With most everything being blown out, and most of my regular buddies out of town. Doc says I can't get my big toe wet for a while, so I took my drysuit out in the Gulf, where the water temp was 86 degrees, in preparation for the Grouper Dives that we are doing.
I wore just my base layer. I was quite comfortable in the water, quite warm out of the water being that it was 80s to 90s top side. But I was able to spend much of the SI just hanging out on the spare ladder.
The dives themselves were pretty boring, vis was 5-10 feet. Dive 1 I was a little off balance as I hadn't shifted my weight to counter my AL40 pony. But I did run into a Goliath that we spent a good couple of minute staring at each other. After navigating around the barge spending 30 minutes underwater, I was bored.
Dive 2 I adjusted the weight, moving two pounds from one side to the other, so I wasn't fighting the pony bottle pulling me to one side. But this dive site was even more boring because it was just scattered rubble. In fact after 30 minutes I realized that I was lost as my out and back should've taken me back to the mooring line, so I did a boat check and found myself right at the ladders. Yeah I meant to do that.
Overall boring dives, but I am finding myself not really minding the drysuit as much. And being able to concentrate on the dives.
Probably no diving until the Grouper dives. I want to get back in the caves and between my limited time for the next couple of weeks and another damn Tropical Storm it might be a while. Might have to make a trip to the Keys when my scooter comes in. Not really sure where else to practice it and learn how to drive it.
I wore just my base layer. I was quite comfortable in the water, quite warm out of the water being that it was 80s to 90s top side. But I was able to spend much of the SI just hanging out on the spare ladder.
The dives themselves were pretty boring, vis was 5-10 feet. Dive 1 I was a little off balance as I hadn't shifted my weight to counter my AL40 pony. But I did run into a Goliath that we spent a good couple of minute staring at each other. After navigating around the barge spending 30 minutes underwater, I was bored.
Dive 2 I adjusted the weight, moving two pounds from one side to the other, so I wasn't fighting the pony bottle pulling me to one side. But this dive site was even more boring because it was just scattered rubble. In fact after 30 minutes I realized that I was lost as my out and back should've taken me back to the mooring line, so I did a boat check and found myself right at the ladders. Yeah I meant to do that.
Overall boring dives, but I am finding myself not really minding the drysuit as much. And being able to concentrate on the dives.
Probably no diving until the Grouper dives. I want to get back in the caves and between my limited time for the next couple of weeks and another damn Tropical Storm it might be a while. Might have to make a trip to the Keys when my scooter comes in. Not really sure where else to practice it and learn how to drive it.
yeah, I have two full cave classes, a stage class, and a CCR cave upgrade scheduled between August 20th and September 18th. If Fred hits our area I'm not sure how that will work out.
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Ugh... I suppose there is Manatee.
Anyways in a TIL segment, the batteries in the Palm D can affect the reading you get. I was testing a pair of tanks that I brought home from the shop. While at the shop I tested it real quick to make sure that I didn't have air or something weird like pure O2 or helium. But I do my labeling and testing at home. So I calibrated my Palm D and tested them, getting 30% which was weird because it was around 35-36% at the shop.
So I pulled out my Divesoft tester and it read 35%, which was in the range I was expecting. I figured that maybe the sensor was going, and pulled out the spare sensor that I bought a couple of months ago. While apart I noticed it still had the original batteries in it. I figured what the hell I would replace those first before I broke the seal on my new sensor. I replaced it, calibrated it, and suddenly I was getting 36% which was again in the range I was expecting.
Which explains why the tanks I used this weekend were also reading 30%, when the label I had on it was for 35%. I figured I might have screwed by not removing the label, and the shop that filled those (different shop) thought that I wanted my usual 32%, and did their usual poor job at hitting that (like today I went to pick up a tank I requested at 32% and it was testing 29% on their tester).
Not really a big deal in either CNS nor MOD as the dives were like 50 feet max. Regardless lesson learned replace those batteries yearly.
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