King Kong Matt
Contributor
Another great day with Scubaboard members...three great dives...and a great meal to follow!
A number of us, including Raxafarian, Northeastwrecks, AaronBBrown, and Shellbird showed up yesterday morning in Jamestown, R.I. at a site called Ft. Wetherill.
Ft. Wetherill is basically a public park with access to a couple of protected coves. From the parking lot, there is immediate access to two coves, a smaller left one, and a larger right one.
Left cove
Right cove
Northeastwrecks (Dan) was practicing with some doubles gear in prep for his upcoming expedition to Lake Ontario and DIR-F. Shellbird (Michelle) was feeling a little under the weather, but provided great surface support in her kayak (ultra yellow...ultra cool). That left Rax (Ken) , Aaron (Aaron), and I to do a couple of dives.
Our first two dives were off the left cove. The vis wasn't great, but we did get a chance to get a little deeper than usual on a shore dive, while still managing to get a nice long dive in. The profile looked something like 50 mins wth max depth at 70 fsw and most of the time spent at 50 fsw.
For the third dive, Northeastwrecks was nice enough to re-rig his Halcyon Pioneer wing and BP so that I could do a test-drive. I'll post my thoughts about that in another thread, but the short version...awesome. While Dan was showing me his rig and helping me out, Ken was attaching a set of spring straps to his new fins. As you can see, very DIR.
After all the fun and games of the day, we all needed a bit of food and drink, so we headed up the road to Jamestown and found a great seafood place. Notice that the expedition members can't seem to agree which mix is best for deco procedures.
One of the lesser trained members of the expedition went unsupervised for a few moments too many and obviously came across some mix that didn't agree with him .
All in all, it was a great day...good friends, good diving, good food and beer. And the best part? It's October and we're still diving in R.I. without a hood and gloves!
Matthew
A number of us, including Raxafarian, Northeastwrecks, AaronBBrown, and Shellbird showed up yesterday morning in Jamestown, R.I. at a site called Ft. Wetherill.
Ft. Wetherill is basically a public park with access to a couple of protected coves. From the parking lot, there is immediate access to two coves, a smaller left one, and a larger right one.
Left cove
Right cove
Northeastwrecks (Dan) was practicing with some doubles gear in prep for his upcoming expedition to Lake Ontario and DIR-F. Shellbird (Michelle) was feeling a little under the weather, but provided great surface support in her kayak (ultra yellow...ultra cool). That left Rax (Ken) , Aaron (Aaron), and I to do a couple of dives.
Our first two dives were off the left cove. The vis wasn't great, but we did get a chance to get a little deeper than usual on a shore dive, while still managing to get a nice long dive in. The profile looked something like 50 mins wth max depth at 70 fsw and most of the time spent at 50 fsw.
For the third dive, Northeastwrecks was nice enough to re-rig his Halcyon Pioneer wing and BP so that I could do a test-drive. I'll post my thoughts about that in another thread, but the short version...awesome. While Dan was showing me his rig and helping me out, Ken was attaching a set of spring straps to his new fins. As you can see, very DIR.
After all the fun and games of the day, we all needed a bit of food and drink, so we headed up the road to Jamestown and found a great seafood place. Notice that the expedition members can't seem to agree which mix is best for deco procedures.
One of the lesser trained members of the expedition went unsupervised for a few moments too many and obviously came across some mix that didn't agree with him .
All in all, it was a great day...good friends, good diving, good food and beer. And the best part? It's October and we're still diving in R.I. without a hood and gloves!
Matthew