SeaYoda
Contributor
I got up at my usual time (4 am) today but I was not going to work! I got my gear together and headed off to meet photohikedive for an early morning swim in the pond. I was the first person there at about 6:30 am. No boats, cars, classes, or people. It was very quiet and nice. Within a few minutes, PHD and MDB drive by me (slinging sand in the air) as they go to park as close to the water as MDB will allow. MDB decided to do some fishing instead of diving. PHD and I got in the water and headed to the lower cavern. We blinded many catfish and eels with our strobes firing all over the place. We came back up and visited the side cavern, PHD tried to squeeze into several small crevices. Viz in the lower cavern was great as usual and vis above the basin was a little cloudy, probably due to the rain last night. Here is a graph of the first dive:
After the dive PHD had to depart to go to work. By this time another group of divers had arrived. They did their dive as I sat topside watching their bubbles during my surface interval. As soon as I saw the bubbles leave the basin and round the basin counter-clockwise, I geared up for dive two. I had to play in the shallows a little as the "dust" settled in the basin and the other divers got out of the water. I headed into the lower cavern again to do some testing with 400 ISO on my camera. After playing awhile, I went to the side cavern for some play time with the strobe. As I hit 500 lbs in the tank, I saw some bodies dropping into the basin. As usual they were kicking up a storm of silt. I headed out, grabbed the flag and swam for the beach. Here's the graph from the second dive:
After putting on some dry clothes I headed over for lunch with Sally. MMMMMMM-MMMM great food! Took my gear home and didn't even have to rinse it
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Here are some pics:
After the dive PHD had to depart to go to work. By this time another group of divers had arrived. They did their dive as I sat topside watching their bubbles during my surface interval. As soon as I saw the bubbles leave the basin and round the basin counter-clockwise, I geared up for dive two. I had to play in the shallows a little as the "dust" settled in the basin and the other divers got out of the water. I headed into the lower cavern again to do some testing with 400 ISO on my camera. After playing awhile, I went to the side cavern for some play time with the strobe. As I hit 500 lbs in the tank, I saw some bodies dropping into the basin. As usual they were kicking up a storm of silt. I headed out, grabbed the flag and swam for the beach. Here's the graph from the second dive:
After putting on some dry clothes I headed over for lunch with Sally. MMMMMMM-MMMM great food! Took my gear home and didn't even have to rinse it
.Here are some pics:
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