Lost exhaust tee at Monastery

[aquaregia]

I had a fairly exciting Monastery dive earlier today. I'll post an A&I about it in a bit, but the short of it is that my buddy was freaking out and I ended up without an octo keeper or an exhaust tee on my octo reg. It's a ScubaPro R109 (adjustable), and the folks on the DIY boards say the exhaust tees are a bear to source. Most likely it's floating around somewhere at South Monastery, but just on the chance that it came off by the car I thought I'd post.

 

[Anti-Hero]

I wasn't in Monterey today, but judging by the swell report, today doesn't look like a Monastery day. What happened?

 

[aquaregia]

Swell report was way off actually. I totally thought I wasn't going to dive today based on the swell report. Waves were under a foot. Visibility was 30'. Water was in the low- to mid-50s.

I just posted my incident here: http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/near-misses-lessons-learned/330888-monastery-4-11-10-a.html

 

[Chuck Tribolet]

Swell report was way off actually. I totally thought I wasn't going to dive today based on the swell report. Waves were under a foot. Visibility was 30'. Water was in the low- to mid-50s.

C&M forecast was:

.TODAY...SE WINDS 15 TO 30 KT...INCREASING TO 25 TO 35 KT LATE
THIS MORNING. COMBINED SEAS 6 TO 12 FT DOMINANT PERIOD 11
SECONDS. SHOWERS AND SLIGHT CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS.

Operative words are "COMBINED SEAS". That means swell+windchop. And reading the Navy model, swell was to be small, and that's the way it worked out. Buoy reported
about three hours of 3-4' swell and 10-12' at 7 seconds wind chop. Since there was
a SE wind, Monastery wouldn't see the windchop.

Chuck