Maybe this should have gone in the whine and cheese forum but the subject is, unfortunately, a big part of diving.
The Great Lakes did it to me again.
After spending about $300 on gas, spending several evenings mixing gas, checking gear, assembling a new set of doubles and driving 6 hours...
The weekends diving was canceled due to weather. Yesterday morning things were socked in with fog and about the time the fog was to lift the forcast was for the wind to pick up and build all day. There was a small craft advisory and the skipper thumbed it.
Now I have 4 sets of doubles full of gas that isn't good for much around here so if I wanted to dive locally today I'd have to discharge that $300 worth of gas into the atmosphere. Not likely.
At least half and maybe more like two thirds the total dives that I have ever planned in the Great Lakes or the ocean have been blown out.
So...what do you do when you're all dressed up and don't have anyplace to go?
Yesterday we had breakfast with the other poor folks who had planned on diving but weren't. My wife and I spent a little time walking on the beach and then hit the road. On the way home we stopped in the Chcago area to get a sandwich at this great place I know and spent a few hours with my parents. I may live in Indiana but Chicago is the place to go for food!
It was a good day but it wasn't the spectacular wreck diving that we had planned.
Maybe I'll mix up some stages and take all this stuff to Missouri next weekend and dive a cave that's an...ok...depth for the gas I have. At least wind shouldn't be a problem there.
The Great Lakes did it to me again.
After spending about $300 on gas, spending several evenings mixing gas, checking gear, assembling a new set of doubles and driving 6 hours...
The weekends diving was canceled due to weather. Yesterday morning things were socked in with fog and about the time the fog was to lift the forcast was for the wind to pick up and build all day. There was a small craft advisory and the skipper thumbed it.
Now I have 4 sets of doubles full of gas that isn't good for much around here so if I wanted to dive locally today I'd have to discharge that $300 worth of gas into the atmosphere. Not likely.
At least half and maybe more like two thirds the total dives that I have ever planned in the Great Lakes or the ocean have been blown out.
So...what do you do when you're all dressed up and don't have anyplace to go?
Yesterday we had breakfast with the other poor folks who had planned on diving but weren't. My wife and I spent a little time walking on the beach and then hit the road. On the way home we stopped in the Chcago area to get a sandwich at this great place I know and spent a few hours with my parents. I may live in Indiana but Chicago is the place to go for food!
It was a good day but it wasn't the spectacular wreck diving that we had planned.
Maybe I'll mix up some stages and take all this stuff to Missouri next weekend and dive a cave that's an...ok...depth for the gas I have. At least wind shouldn't be a problem there.
) and ended up with 3 dives for the same reason. 
