basilbowman
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So...I had a fun dive yesterday...
We're headed out to go refill our collection tank, because I dive at school. We're on the boat, we get to the site, finish suiting up, then hop in. The tide is ebbing, but not too bad, we're headed against it first, then down around a reef and back up. The water is bloody cold (43 degrees), there's snow on top of the boat, and we're in double 7mm wetsuits, but it's not too bad. Anyways, my buddy is having trouble getting down, so we head back over to the boat and he pops in another weight, because he's got an extra shorty on, so he needs a little bit more help. Anyways, once that's set, we're further out from the shore than we needed to be, so we figured we'd descend and then swim against the current, might be easier than trying up here, right? So we go down, and we keep going, and keep going, and finally hit bottom, waaay deeper than we wanted to be, because we'd been swept so far out. I look at my depth gauge and notice that I've got 5 bar of air left and then I'm sucking fumes. I look over at my buddy, give him the OOA sign, grab on to him, grab his backup and we head up. Apparently, when the shop put back together my gauges, they neglected to include an o-ring, so I had a massive leak on my gauges, which I didn't notice, because since I was trying to swim into the current, I was descending head first. Just goes to show, training and buddies are good things. No panic, no problem, just "Hey, let's go up. Now" Did I mention it was really cold?
We're headed out to go refill our collection tank, because I dive at school. We're on the boat, we get to the site, finish suiting up, then hop in. The tide is ebbing, but not too bad, we're headed against it first, then down around a reef and back up. The water is bloody cold (43 degrees), there's snow on top of the boat, and we're in double 7mm wetsuits, but it's not too bad. Anyways, my buddy is having trouble getting down, so we head back over to the boat and he pops in another weight, because he's got an extra shorty on, so he needs a little bit more help. Anyways, once that's set, we're further out from the shore than we needed to be, so we figured we'd descend and then swim against the current, might be easier than trying up here, right? So we go down, and we keep going, and keep going, and finally hit bottom, waaay deeper than we wanted to be, because we'd been swept so far out. I look at my depth gauge and notice that I've got 5 bar of air left and then I'm sucking fumes. I look over at my buddy, give him the OOA sign, grab on to him, grab his backup and we head up. Apparently, when the shop put back together my gauges, they neglected to include an o-ring, so I had a massive leak on my gauges, which I didn't notice, because since I was trying to swim into the current, I was descending head first. Just goes to show, training and buddies are good things. No panic, no problem, just "Hey, let's go up. Now" Did I mention it was really cold?
