Is Coz all drift diving?

[HammerNoMore]

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It was a pretty hard swim from the superstructure back upcurrent to the mooring line, and it wasn't all the enjoyable hanging onto the mooring line flapping like a flag in the breeze.

Yea, I know the current varies but it was similar conditions when I dove it. Only time I've ever seen that many people staying horizontal in Coz . It's a lot easier to get back to the mooring line if you go around the back side of the ship. It give some pretty good protection from the current.

It would have been a lot nicer to just do a drifting safety stop and then get picked up. Unfortunately, some members of our group had already been up for 20 minutes when we surfaced ---- the boat would have had to do a lot of running back and forth to get everyone.

It could work though. Each diver pops a DSMB at safety stop, boat picks them up when the surface, then goes back upcurrent to get the next set of divers. Could be really confusing when there are multiple boats dropping divers onto the artificial wreck, though.

IIRC the C-53 is sittng in a little depression and the current is actually going the opposite direction of a typical Coz current. I'm not sure how big an area this affects but it seems to me if you could wind up drifting in multiple directions. Add this to the problems you mention and I think drift diving the C-53 would be a cluster [insert proper expletive here].