Lessons Learned this weekend

[Mike Campbell]

Desi, Ashton is a good one. We were all impressed with your memory of the other issue that occured that day and appreciate your pointing out the equipment that needed re-doing. My Mexico dives were great, but glad to be back in NC. I look forward to seeing you guys sometime. With three or four Mikes and all of us captains it's hard to figure us out some times. I am the drop dead gorgeous one......
Mike...ok ok the ugly one then......

 

[tddfleming]

Desi, Ashton is a good one. We were all impressed with your memory of the other issue that occured that day and appreciate your pointing out the equipment that needed re-doing. My Mexico dives were great, but glad to be back in NC. I look forward to seeing you guys sometime. With three or four Mikes and all of us captains it's hard to figure us out some times. I am the drop dead gorgeous one......
Mike...ok ok the ugly one then......

Funny! Mike:

See, we did screw here name up, many times actually, oops. So you will be the tall, dark haired, well built, guy???? Oh wait, did I say that out loud? I will be the short, green, female with many coats on (as my daugther says-not the green part). Not my memory, but daughters. We are not big talkers, we just usually watch what is going on around us, so we tend to see things. However, if anyone joins us and they expect conversation, they will be very disappointed. Next time, I hope to meet you. Thanks for all your help with this trip!!!!!

Desi

 

[AfterDark]

Desi, I just found this thread. You did very well IMO. I won't repeat what others have already stated. About the rigging under the boat. Next time try to stay above the hanglines while traveling to the anchor line to descend. I used a personal hang line clipped to the boats hangline. I swam just above and parallel teethed to the hangline that was jerking up and down. When I got to the anchor line I unhooked my hangline from the boats hangline and descended down the anchor line. I wrapped up my line when I got to the bottom. When I came up I hooked up to the boats hangline again and hovered a few feet from the boats bouncing hangline. The line is about 10 feet long with a loop on one end that I rarely use and a large SS spring clip on the other that clips the boat line. Cheers!

 

[tddfleming]

Your using a jon line? I had thought about those, but since I don't know how to properly use one, did not buy one.

Desi

 

[tddfleming]

Desi, I just found this thread. You did very well IMO. I won't repeat what others have already stated. About the rigging under the boat. Next time try to stay above the hanglines while traveling to the anchor line to descend. I used a personal hang line clipped to the boats hangline. I swam just above and parallel teethed to the hangline that was jerking up and down. When I got to the anchor line I unhooked my hangline from the boats hangline and descended down the anchor line. I wrapped up my line when I got to the bottom. When I came up I hooked up to the boats hangline again and hovered a few feet from the boats bouncing hangline. The line is about 10 feet long with a loop on one end that I rarely use and a large SS spring clip on the other that clips the boat line. Cheers!

Jorden:

Just a side note about getting to the bottom and unclipping and folding your line. I am assuming you put it away someplace, like bc pocket or such. I still have a poodle jacket and I have found the pockets to be the most useless things. I am still trying to figure out what the moron was thinking when they added those. Works and looks good on land, however UW a whole different game. My husband got tired of me complaining about the pockets. He bought me a pair of xshorts. Which I have not used yet, but will next time out. I don't like dragging stuff UW with me much like I don't like dragging stuff with me while I land. Heck, half the time I never carry a purse.

 

[AfterDark]

Jorden:

Just a side note about getting to the bottom and unclipping and folding your line. I am assuming you put it away someplace, like bc pocket or such. I still have a poodle jacket and I have found the pockets to be the most useless things. I am still trying to figure out what the moron was thinking when they added those. Works and looks good on land, however UW a whole different game. My husband got tired of me complaining about the pockets. He bought me a pair of xshorts. Which I have not used yet, but will next time out. I don't like dragging stuff UW with me much like I don't like dragging stuff with me while I land. Heck, half the time I never carry a purse.

I just rolled it up secured it and clipped it to a d-ring. I knew I'd be using it later. Buy one?!?!? That's DIY stuff.

 

[tddfleming]

Thanks, will do on my next order.

 

[TSandM]

Just a small piece of advice . . . with your X-shorts, tie a loop of cord through the grommets in the front and back of the pockets. Then you can clip the things you put in your pockets to those loops. When you want to get something out, you can pull everything that's clipped to a loop out, remove the thing you want, and put the rest back without risking losing anything. If you just put things in the pockets, them when you try to take something out, you may inadvertently remove and lose something else.

 

[tddfleming]

Good one, Lynne. That would have been me. Chasing everything that is now going to the bottom.

 

[tomfcrist]

I was out on the Olympus that Saturday in the AM.....Wasnt the best sea state to be a newbie in NC. Beautiful once we all got in the water though wasnt it?