Eat my Bubbles
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Well, seeing as Alberta didn't fit into any of the other categories, I thought I'd post this here. I went diving to Jasper National Park in Alberta Canada on the weekend. I took my ADvanced PADI there as it is only about 1 4hr drive from where I live. Dove in 7mm 2 peice wetsuits, hoods, gloves, and boots. We dove in 3 different lakes there. On day 1 we did a navigational dive and search and recovery dive in Lake Edith. the water was around 64 degrees as our max depth of 26 ACT feet(35 TH). It went well. Using a lift bag though is a mighty tricky exercise if i do say so myself. That evening we did a night dive in lake annette, slightly cooler water temperatures. We didn't dive untill about midnight, as it doesn't even get remotely dark till then up here at the moment. Saw tons of fish and really enjoyed the night dive. On day 2 we dove in Lac Beauvert. Much colder water temperatures there. We did our deep dive there to 65' ACT (90' TH) The water temp was about 48 F down there and I absolutely froze. I must get drysuit training before i head up there again. We did our official "altitude" dive in the afternoon, even though all our dives had to take into consideration the pressure changes at alitutde. We enjoyed touring Lac Beauvert as there are many cold water spring inlets, one as big as a diver!
Oh yes, As you can see I did end up getting the cressi fins, I LOVE them, but being a competitive swimmer and waterpolo player means I am constantly swimming to fast for the others, I got the nickname speedy gonzales over the weekend, I must learn to swim slower....
The hard part about these lakes were the fact that about 30' off shore the rocks turned into glacial silt which is extremely fine and even the slightest touch to it will completely mess up the visibility. We all were trying so hard to maintain good buoyancy as swimming in 5 ft of visibility is not much fun. Here are a few pictures
beauvert-group
beauvert-buddy and I doing our pre-dive
beauvert-me
beauvert-me
Edith-dive markers
Oh yes, As you can see I did end up getting the cressi fins, I LOVE them, but being a competitive swimmer and waterpolo player means I am constantly swimming to fast for the others, I got the nickname speedy gonzales over the weekend, I must learn to swim slower....
The hard part about these lakes were the fact that about 30' off shore the rocks turned into glacial silt which is extremely fine and even the slightest touch to it will completely mess up the visibility. We all were trying so hard to maintain good buoyancy as swimming in 5 ft of visibility is not much fun. Here are a few pictures
beauvert-group
beauvert-buddy and I doing our pre-dive
beauvert-me
beauvert-me
Edith-dive markers
