Too many projects, not enough time

[rjack321]

How am I supposed to prioritize between projects?
Local wrecks (many)
Not so local wrecks (1)
Not so local mines (2+)
Not so local caves (1+)

Non-project fun diving at
Distant caves
Distant wrecks

That doesn't even count reefs and fishies...

Seriously I only have so many buddies I am interested in doing more aggressive diving with. And there's a budget to mind too, sigh.

 

[UCFKnightDiver]

Which cave, and where is it? lol

 

[rjack321]

North Vancouver Island has a few hundred...
41F water and a royal pitas to access. Flooding until summertime too.

Those are actually a bit of a problem since I suspect the "best" strategy with intermittent splunking is a CCR with a bunch of 40s for bailout. Next best probably SM just to be able to hoist/haul gear. Distant 3rd, BM. Tough to justify switching to SM just for one project though. I would not want to use SM on our local wrecks here, too much switching and futzing with frozen blue gloved hands while BT is wasting and scootering and/or trying to measure stuff.

The one we tried last summer was a 900m walk each way (from the car to entrance) and 3 dry sections. We lasted 3 days before we wore out.

 

[JahJahwarrior]

Those sound quite a bit worse than the caves I've been helping with from time to time here in Florida. Atleast here we have warmer water!

You really need support teams, a strong vision with clear goals and a great leader to motivate the team, for survey in those conditions to be optimal, imho.

 

[TSandM]

Well, I guess you have to decide what gives you the most bang for your buck. As much as I love cave diving, what I've heard of the BC caves has put them off my list, for being just too much work to get to. On the other hand, the local wrecks aren't big logistical problems, and would leave some room in your time and money budget for some non-local fun diving (like Mexico caves!)

 

[LiteHedded]

cave first man!

gibby is right. support makes all the difference in the world

 

[SuPrBuGmAn]

rjack - I'm happy to hear about all your problems. LOL None of mine are truly far away, but the numbers game is killing me. There are litterally hundreds of potential sites all over the place here, and it takes a considerable amount of time to start knocking them off the list. No matter where you are, its not easy if you want to pursue the less traveled(or never traveled) stuff.

gibby is right. support makes all the difference in the world

What do you know about support Litehedded?

 

[LiteHedded]

yea. there's typically a reason that stuff is less traveled, no?

 

[SuPrBuGmAn]

Yeah, most of the time

 

[rjack321]

You really need support teams, a strong vision with clear goals and a great leader to motivate the team, for survey in those conditions to be optimal, imho.

Yeah that ain't happening. We got 4 committed for that project I think.

Otherwise I schedule destination charters around here (2-3 months out) and no one commits/shows. Yet tech charters 6 months out in LA are sold out/filled already. Seems like there's this PNW tradition of waiting until the last minute to pick the best date lol.

Way too many people around here are spoiled rotten. If its more than a 45min drive or they can't leave the house at 8am or later, they don't go. A few do, but its a scant few compared to the cyber divers.