Too many projects, not enough time

[rjack321]

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!)

Local wrecks outside of Lake Washingtion are actually significant logistical problems. Its a beetch scheduling between currents, daylight, weather, weekends, and Vessel Traffic. I am happy to do it but can't fill charters and despite offers to use my boat I frequently hear crickets there too.

 

[rjack321]

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.

Yeah I know I know. Guess I came to the wrong place to whine about it!

 

[SuPrBuGmAn]

Whine away, atleast we get to hear a little about whats going on over there and it makes things here not seem so bad.

 

[rjack321]

Oh and I forgot I still have a flooded mining townsite to find.

Water's too low in the reservoir to use the boat ramp so its inaccessible until summer. That is the ultimate irony as low winter water levels = drastically less deco I just can't get the boat in. Well maybe I could, I haven't see exactly what the bottom looks like when there's 60+ft less water. I am imagining lots of stumps. That's a ~7hr drive and accessed only via Canada so not someplace I can just go have a peek at.

 

[LiteHedded]

Oh and I forgot I still have a flooded mining townsite to find.

Water's too low in the reservoir to use the boat ramp so its inaccessible until summer. That is the ultimate irony as low winter water levels = drastically less deco I just can't get the boat in. Well maybe I could, I haven't see exactly what the bottom looks like when there's 60+ft less water. I am imagining lots of stumps. That's a ~7hr drive and accessed only via Canada so not someplace I can just go have a peek at.

psh
not with that attitude

 

[rjack321]

psh
not with that attitude

Actually I am using other documents to try and nail down its location more definitely first. Seattle City Light has probably reported me to the FBI for poking around their archives already.

 

[Dive-aholic]

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.

SM isn't that bad. If I can cruise on speed 3 on my Magnum through small passage and swap regs wwithout letting off the trigger, you can do it, too, even with smurf gloves on. Average dive only has 4 switches.

As for not enough time, I need to win the lottery so I can quit my job and do nothing but dive! Even then there wouldn't be enough time. I currently have 4 ongoing projects and am about to take on another 2.

 

[rjack321]

SM isn't that bad. If I can cruise on speed 3 on my Magnum through small passage and swap regs wwithout letting off the trigger, you can do it, too, even with smurf gloves on. Average dive only has 4 switches.

As for not enough time, I need to win the lottery so I can quit my job and do nothing but dive! Even then there wouldn't be enough time.

I am still thinking about using SM because oddly enough one of the greatest risks is dropping doubles while hoisting over a dry section and losing gas.

 

[JahJahwarrior]

I am still thinking about using SM because oddly enough one of the greatest risks is dropping doubles while hoisting over a dry section and losing gas.

I think the better question here is, why in the world would you NOT use sidemount for a dive like this?

 

[ucfdiver]

I think the better question here is, why in the world would you NOT use sidemount for a dive like this?

Because it's a complete cluster **** with stages. Everyone says it's not, but no one has posted a video to show otherwise.

Also, I'm not a huge fan of swapping regs on the motor...accidentally swap to a dead reg and you've got a recipe for buddy separation while your buddy is continuing and you're coughing your guts out. I know everyone says it's really simple, but a recent student of a well known and highly recommended sidemount instructor recently posted a video after her course, and she stills swaps to dead regs during a valve drill. It's a real concern.