He's a report for all the would be cavern/cave divers.
You don't know what your missing
Arrived at 10 AM Cost to get into the park $0.00 ( I have a anual pass)
Cost to my dive buddies Pat 1 and Bill Around $22 for the 2 of them.
Did land drills, set up gear , got cold, hit the water at around 12 noon water temp 72 deg. Duck weed every where. Dead Amordillo floating at the surface.
No problem call the ranger and had it removed. Decend down with Rick (cave instuctor) P1(intro) Bill (learning cavern) and myself (intro) P1 had bouyancy problem but got it under control. Rick ,never a problem , Bill needs to practice more. Myself , Felt good everything under control, P1 ran the line into the cavern and tied off at the gold line. Depth around 80 ft. High flow, working hard.
Bill stays at the carven zone and works on bouyancy. Rick stays with him for a few minutes. P1 and I head into the cave P1 leading My first time in and his second. We get about 150' in and I hear bubbles load bubbles. I signal P1 he comes back and I tell him to check my regs. All OK . We continue, We hit the 700' mark and we stop to see if Rick has come in yet. I turn and there's RIcks light. Behind us. We continue for a short distance and I look at SPG and 1/3 rulle comes into play, thumbs up turn the dive. Head back. Depth 90 ft.
We stop and decide to do some skills. We do cut line drill, Entangled diver at line drill. and then head back to exit. On the way we do mask off exit. I did bad here, lost line in high flow in dark cave without mask on. Reteived back up mask found line and exited cave. Did valve drill while doing saftey stop. Good dive all in all. Exited the water to get second tank.
Pat 2 was there waiting. She said she would be. We set up . Rick let P2 borrow a canister Hid light I showed her how to rig it. She's in her doubles now. We did bubble check all ok. We go down to the entrance no skills this dive this is the just for fun and get comfortable dive. Rick leads I'm #2, P2 #3, P1 at the end. I'm on rule of thirds (single lp 112) the others on doubles. I'll call the dive. Strong flow again . Pull and glide as much as I can. We pass the 700' marked, Still good. We hit around 900ft in and 1/3 rules takes over we turn the dive. Drift dive out (that was fun) Hit the exit with me in the lead (man with the least air rule) We stop at around 40 ft I still have 1400 PSI in my tank reset rule of thirds and decide to go into the other cave for a short trip. This one flows out so must pay attenion. Rule of sixths will apply . Get to the entrance and stop check SPG 1000 PSI left. But where is P2? P1 tells us her ears hurt so she stayed up. Time to go back for me anyway. Exit the cavern and there she is hovering at 25 ft. She's Ok I'm down to 500 PSI. Small problem I'm in deco too. Need to do 7 min. I let P2 know and we share air for the deco stop and safty stop. We did good handled all problems well and had fun doing it. Exited water( RICK and P1 still down Haveing fun)
They had to do 27 min deco (next time bring Nitrox) All in all a very good day of diving. Learned alot and had good dive buddies.
Fred
You don't know what your missing
Arrived at 10 AM Cost to get into the park $0.00 ( I have a anual pass)
Cost to my dive buddies Pat 1 and Bill Around $22 for the 2 of them.
Did land drills, set up gear , got cold, hit the water at around 12 noon water temp 72 deg. Duck weed every where. Dead Amordillo floating at the surface.
No problem call the ranger and had it removed. Decend down with Rick (cave instuctor) P1(intro) Bill (learning cavern) and myself (intro) P1 had bouyancy problem but got it under control. Rick ,never a problem , Bill needs to practice more. Myself , Felt good everything under control, P1 ran the line into the cavern and tied off at the gold line. Depth around 80 ft. High flow, working hard.
Bill stays at the carven zone and works on bouyancy. Rick stays with him for a few minutes. P1 and I head into the cave P1 leading My first time in and his second. We get about 150' in and I hear bubbles load bubbles. I signal P1 he comes back and I tell him to check my regs. All OK . We continue, We hit the 700' mark and we stop to see if Rick has come in yet. I turn and there's RIcks light. Behind us. We continue for a short distance and I look at SPG and 1/3 rulle comes into play, thumbs up turn the dive. Head back. Depth 90 ft.
We stop and decide to do some skills. We do cut line drill, Entangled diver at line drill. and then head back to exit. On the way we do mask off exit. I did bad here, lost line in high flow in dark cave without mask on. Reteived back up mask found line and exited cave. Did valve drill while doing saftey stop. Good dive all in all. Exited the water to get second tank.
Pat 2 was there waiting. She said she would be. We set up . Rick let P2 borrow a canister Hid light I showed her how to rig it. She's in her doubles now. We did bubble check all ok. We go down to the entrance no skills this dive this is the just for fun and get comfortable dive. Rick leads I'm #2, P2 #3, P1 at the end. I'm on rule of thirds (single lp 112) the others on doubles. I'll call the dive. Strong flow again . Pull and glide as much as I can. We pass the 700' marked, Still good. We hit around 900ft in and 1/3 rules takes over we turn the dive. Drift dive out (that was fun) Hit the exit with me in the lead (man with the least air rule) We stop at around 40 ft I still have 1400 PSI in my tank reset rule of thirds and decide to go into the other cave for a short trip. This one flows out so must pay attenion. Rule of sixths will apply . Get to the entrance and stop check SPG 1000 PSI left. But where is P2? P1 tells us her ears hurt so she stayed up. Time to go back for me anyway. Exit the cavern and there she is hovering at 25 ft. She's Ok I'm down to 500 PSI. Small problem I'm in deco too. Need to do 7 min. I let P2 know and we share air for the deco stop and safty stop. We did good handled all problems well and had fun doing it. Exited water( RICK and P1 still down Haveing fun)
They had to do 27 min deco (next time bring Nitrox) All in all a very good day of diving. Learned alot and had good dive buddies.
Fred
