Morrison Dive Report 6/10/06

[SeaYoda]

No memory? - at your age too!

 

[photohikedive]

No memory? - at your age too!

oh there you are, I thought a shark got you

 

[SeaYoda]

Sorry, there were no sharks alive or dead on the dive.

 

[photohikedive]

http://www.scubaboard.com/showthread.php?p=1932741#post1932741

you might want to check this out, pulled it off the wire this morning. really makes you think, about diving at the jetties....

 

[SeaYoda]

I did see some of those puffers OOOOOO-Noooooo!

 

[jviehe]

After the dive, I decided to work on my freediving skills. I was able to make it down to the log several times, then I was able to rest on the log for a moment, then push off. Finally I made two trips under the log. The secret was the weight belt I was cheating with. It was heavy enough that I was able to make my decents without kicking, but not so heavy that I had to fight to get to the surface.

You may want to rethink freediving after diving. Unless you can guaruntee your ascent rate from a free dive is 60ft/min or less you could be risking DCS because of residual nitrogen. I think DAN did a study on this and showed some problems.

 

[CD_in_Chitown]

what happened to the pennies?

I had lunch with 'em. The amount of dives bugman makes there that little gnome is paying out about $100 a month, jk

Great report, sounds like an enviable good time.

 

[photohikedive]

You may want to rethink freediving after diving. Unless you can guaruntee your ascent rate from a free dive is 60ft/min or less you could be risking DCS because of residual nitrogen. I think DAN did a study on this and showed some problems.

I had thought about that some. Right after the dive I did a 30 minute surface snorkel. There was a bit of a SI, then I did some shallow (10') freedives. I spent a little more time on shore, then back for the deeper ones. All my ascents were "slow" at about the rate of my bubbles coming up. If I recall my OW training right, there was something about not ascending faster than your slowest bubble.

 

[SuPrBuGmAn]

I had lunch with 'em. The amount of dives bugman makes there that little gnome is paying out about $100 a month, jk...

Mystery solved, and the cavern gods will be angry! That might be why they destroyed the goose.

 

[mike_s]

I was thinking of replacing the goose with a plastic pink flamingo.