UnderSeaBumbleBee
Contributor
Well hoping to find a dive site a little closer to home for the Divas, we decided to try to dive Lake Murray near Chapin, SC.
Jocasseegirl, just got a new bp/w and a 7hose and new 2nd stage along with some jets. We spent the morning setting up her new gear and then headed off to the dive shop to meet up with Live4Sharks. We still needed to tie a few snaps onto things, but were running late and decided to do those once we got to the lake.
When we got to the lake we hauled all the gear to the waters edge. We could see some minnows in the shallows and were hopeful that we could have some decent vis once we got in the water. It was very mucky on the waters edge and I nearly got stuck in the mud. The mud sucked my shoes right off my feet a couple of times. By the time we got set up, we were really over heated and ready to get below the surface.
Since the cove where we put in was down so much, we decided to surface swim a bit out into the lake and then drop down. When we finally dropped down a couple feet vis was about 1.5 feet at best. We popped back up and decided to descend again while touching one another. Once on the bottom, Jocasseegirl was on my right and Live4Sharks was on my left as I hovered above touching each of them. With them just an arms length away, I could see them but it was hard to see them clearly. We hoped as we swam out and got a deeper and out into the main part of the lake that the vis would open up. It never did.
Jocassee felt pretty comfortable in the new gear. We still need to tweak it a bit . I moved my tank a bit to make it easier for me to reach my valve, but that really messed up my trim. I am still trying to work through that and find the right balance. As long as I was moving I was ok even if only moving slowly, but as soon as I stopped to hover I turtled.
We didnt get to use as much gas as we would have liked, but we did get the new gear set up and wet. I was pretty comfortable diving the low almost no vis water. It is not my preference mind you, I would much prefer clearer waters. At any rate it did not make me feel disoriented or nervous.
So it was not a stellar weekend of diving, but rather a tiny tiny baby step along our path to become better divers and incorporate DIR principles into our diving.
At the end of the day we went to a nice place to eat and chatted about the day of diving. Jocasseegirls husband who is a non diver was patient with us as we talked non stop about our day of diving and future dive plans. I think a good time was had by all!
Jocasseegirl, just got a new bp/w and a 7hose and new 2nd stage along with some jets. We spent the morning setting up her new gear and then headed off to the dive shop to meet up with Live4Sharks. We still needed to tie a few snaps onto things, but were running late and decided to do those once we got to the lake.
When we got to the lake we hauled all the gear to the waters edge. We could see some minnows in the shallows and were hopeful that we could have some decent vis once we got in the water. It was very mucky on the waters edge and I nearly got stuck in the mud. The mud sucked my shoes right off my feet a couple of times. By the time we got set up, we were really over heated and ready to get below the surface.
Since the cove where we put in was down so much, we decided to surface swim a bit out into the lake and then drop down. When we finally dropped down a couple feet vis was about 1.5 feet at best. We popped back up and decided to descend again while touching one another. Once on the bottom, Jocasseegirl was on my right and Live4Sharks was on my left as I hovered above touching each of them. With them just an arms length away, I could see them but it was hard to see them clearly. We hoped as we swam out and got a deeper and out into the main part of the lake that the vis would open up. It never did.
Jocassee felt pretty comfortable in the new gear. We still need to tweak it a bit . I moved my tank a bit to make it easier for me to reach my valve, but that really messed up my trim. I am still trying to work through that and find the right balance. As long as I was moving I was ok even if only moving slowly, but as soon as I stopped to hover I turtled.
We didnt get to use as much gas as we would have liked, but we did get the new gear set up and wet. I was pretty comfortable diving the low almost no vis water. It is not my preference mind you, I would much prefer clearer waters. At any rate it did not make me feel disoriented or nervous.
So it was not a stellar weekend of diving, but rather a tiny tiny baby step along our path to become better divers and incorporate DIR principles into our diving.
At the end of the day we went to a nice place to eat and chatted about the day of diving. Jocasseegirls husband who is a non diver was patient with us as we talked non stop about our day of diving and future dive plans. I think a good time was had by all!
