Scuba diving with my new Excalibur II with some success

[Diverdon]

Brrrrr, Lake Superior.

I’ve swam in Superior a few times........for about 8 seconds each time. Holy mother of god can it get cold. LOL

8 seconds, you say? That's good. Most non-locals ricochet off that water
I've seen it happen!

 

[American Digger In Europe]

Thanks for the advice and links. 100 hours sounds like a long time to learn the machines idiosyncracies, especially when we have such a short dive season up here.
I have seen your channel too, ADIE, thanks for the offer to help. I believe I will spend the winter months resrarreseaand finding a shaft or mounting option better than the stock options that theachine came with. Do you have that kind of video on your channel?
Thanks for sharing gentleman. I have much catching up to do.

DD

I upgraded my Excalibur II with an Anderson carbon fiber shaft. I also have an Anderson aluminum dive shaft, but I opted to use the standard Anderson carbon fiber shaft for SCUBA detecting and beach detecting because that particular shaft can be used comfortably for both. It was a big pain in the rear to switch out shafts between beach and diving hunts!

 

[Diverdon]

I upgraded my Excalibur II with an Anderson carbon fiber shaft. I also have an Anderson aluminum dive shaft, but I opted to use the standard Anderson carbon fiber shaft for SCUBA detecting and beach detecting because that particular shaft can be used comfortably for both. It was a big pain in the rear to switch out shafts between beach and diving hunts!

Is that shaft shorter than the two supplied? I noticed some divers with really short ones one Youtube. I suspect they would be easier to wield.

DD

 

[American Digger In Europe]

Is that shaft shorter than the two supplied? I noticed some divers with really short ones one Youtube. I suspect they would be easier to wield.

DD

The Anderson carbon fiber shaft is collapsible. It's as long as a standard Excal shaft, but it can be collapsed into a dive shaft that is about 11" longer than the Anderson aluminum dive shaft.

Like I said before, I have both, but exclusively use the standard Anderson shaft.