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Monterey Meet & Greet - 12 Jun 2010
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mikemill
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You probably won´t believe this, the water is 76F here and Í´m still diving my drysuit. I do have to admit I´m enjoying being gloveless, the thin UG´s & hood & little light Al80 doubles
mikemill
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For any type of overhead environment I can see using a drysuit. If nothing else redundant buoyancy.
dougchartier
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Ben_ca
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So see everyone bright and early.
Breakwater on the lawn
0900
Just look for doubles on a tables and X-Scooters. I'll be in my little red nissan truck with a black camper shell. PM me for my number if you need directions.
Breakwater on the lawn
0900
Just look for doubles on a tables and X-Scooters. I'll be in my little red nissan truck with a black camper shell. PM me for my number if you need directions.
So how was the diving today? I hope you guys had an excellent time!
I wanted to be there, but I've got the Head Cold to End All Head Colds right now, so it wasn't gonna happen.
I wanted to be there, but I've got the Head Cold to End All Head Colds right now, so it wasn't gonna happen.
pacificgal
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Hi Brian,
You didn't miss so much by way of visibility, you did miss me getting lost off the bottle near the barge, I can't say it was at the barge because I didn't actually find the barge, had to have Don take over as Captain and get us where we wanted to go. I don't understand it, I almost never not find it. Any event, Don, Doug, Nina and I went to the barge on the first dive, viz was 5 feet, saw a lot of squid eggs.
Second dive we went to the metridium fields, this time we were escorted by Ted and Ben, in addition to the previously mentioned crew. Got to the metridium fields without issue, saw a HUGE jellyfish on the way out there, bell must've been 3' across and tentacles that seemed to stretch for ever. On the way back in, I wanted to try and do that bag shoot I've been talking about. What a freakin train wreck! It went something like this:
10 fsw. Stable enough in trim to feel OK about doing the bag shoot. Pull out the bag, getting it unhooked easily enough. Mask starts to leak, minor annoyance. I unleash the bag, grab it up it my hands, take my reg out and blow into the smb, now my reg is out and my hands are in front of me holding the bag and spool and I can't get the reg back in because my hands are full, I drop the spool, pop the reg in and voila, I'm on the surface. How did that happen? Of, course, I couldn't see how it happened because my mask was full of water. Don grabbed the spool, reeled the smb back in for me, I clipped it off, and would prefer to try that again in a pool. Not the ocean.
You didn't miss so much by way of visibility, you did miss me getting lost off the bottle near the barge, I can't say it was at the barge because I didn't actually find the barge, had to have Don take over as Captain and get us where we wanted to go. I don't understand it, I almost never not find it. Any event, Don, Doug, Nina and I went to the barge on the first dive, viz was 5 feet, saw a lot of squid eggs.
Second dive we went to the metridium fields, this time we were escorted by Ted and Ben, in addition to the previously mentioned crew. Got to the metridium fields without issue, saw a HUGE jellyfish on the way out there, bell must've been 3' across and tentacles that seemed to stretch for ever. On the way back in, I wanted to try and do that bag shoot I've been talking about. What a freakin train wreck! It went something like this:
10 fsw. Stable enough in trim to feel OK about doing the bag shoot. Pull out the bag, getting it unhooked easily enough. Mask starts to leak, minor annoyance. I unleash the bag, grab it up it my hands, take my reg out and blow into the smb, now my reg is out and my hands are in front of me holding the bag and spool and I can't get the reg back in because my hands are full, I drop the spool, pop the reg in and voila, I'm on the surface. How did that happen? Of, course, I couldn't see how it happened because my mask was full of water. Don grabbed the spool, reeled the smb back in for me, I clipped it off, and would prefer to try that again in a pool. Not the ocean.
dougchartier
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That jellyfish was really cool and exactly as how Kristina described it! Though visibility was nothing to write home about and it was mad cold (constant 49 degrees!), it was a wonderful day of diving. Don, Kristina, Nina, Ben, and Ted were great to dive with.
I had a similar disaster with my SMB. I won't even go into the details... And it seemed so straightforward when the salesman and Don explained it to me!
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Ben_ca
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It was great diving with you guys also... Ted and I didn't see the big Jellyfish... But we did run into it's tentacles... we were behind you guys a bit and as we were kicking saw the tail end of it... and was amazed by how long the tentacles were... we sat there and waited for that freight train to pass... and the imagination was going into overdrive about how big that thing must be!
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