TexasMike, Corsair and wife and another member of the Texas Swamp Diver team made a trip to the Oasis yesterday. This is a small shallow spring fed quarry a little outside Denton. Water temp at depth was a balmy 90* with a max depth of 18'. Vis was at best 5 feet. I did work on UW compass navigation and swimming without my mask. I need much more work on UW nav.
Lessons learned:
I swim in circles. I have no idea why, but I swim in big clockwise circles.
There is much to be said for diving with gear you are comfortable in. I was trying TexasMikes Ranger BC and I realize now that part of my problem is it was too big for me.
Put all your gear in your dive bag. My primary mask and my log book were sitting on my dresser next to each other. I grabbed my log book and left my mask. At least I had a secondary.
Tom
Lessons learned:
I swim in circles. I have no idea why, but I swim in big clockwise circles.
There is much to be said for diving with gear you are comfortable in. I was trying TexasMikes Ranger BC and I realize now that part of my problem is it was too big for me.
Put all your gear in your dive bag. My primary mask and my log book were sitting on my dresser next to each other. I grabbed my log book and left my mask. At least I had a secondary.
Tom
Actually you're right, visualizing your size makes me think the medium shoulder harness would have been better versus the large I have, and a smaller cumberbund.
