Lessons from a dive scrubbed that didn't need to be

[flots am]

We then had an amusing (and stressful) half hour, trying to get the anchor free. Peter went down and cleared it, but each time Dennus would try to bring it up, it would catch on something again. Peter reported that there was NO current at depth, and the visibility was excellent.

Call me overly-conservative, but I would have tied a wetnote to the line that says "Belongs to "XXX" be back tomorrow, please leave alone.", untied the anchor line from the boat, added a few pounds of lead, dropped it and headed home. When the weather cleared, retrieval would be easy.

I have a really hard time coming up with a good reason to risk making multiple descents to free an anchor in high current.

flots.

 

[Peter Guy]

Flots, there was no "high current" except some at the surface. By the time I was at 10 feet, I was just floating down the anchor line. I had no problems with this -- in fact, I was having fun.

It was frustrating to me that the boat captain wasn't able to pull up the anchor the first time around -- just a little bit more experience in this and there wouldn't have been any problem at all.

The reality was that this was a learning experience and I believe good lessons were learned.

No animals (well, maybe a few small critters) were harmed during this procedure!