I'm in the process of finishing up my deco course. Was supposed to be finished in November but the weather took a turn for the worse and no deep wreck...165 ft dives... have gone out since. Well today we headed out to the Yancy, but once again didn't make it because of rough seas that far out. We ended up on the Aeolus...about 120fsw. My instructor said we would still do a long dive with deco stops, but he still wanted me to do the 165 ft before he would cert me. It's just as well we didn't make the Yancy. On the bottom we did manifold manipulation drills and did a penetration dive and a rescue scenario. That all went very well. Then we headed up. I had my stops written on my forearm slate which kept coming dislodged. Not going to use it anymore. Basic small flat slates with a clip from now on. I could hardly read the slate and I also had a difficult time seeing my timers because my mask kept fogging up. I was using a 7mm wetsuit. Everyone else was diving dry. Yep...I got cold. Time to invest again
I used up a sh*it load of gas. I had gas. I couldn't stow my deco reg because my hands were too cold. The stops went ok because I had pretty much memorized them and could see my timers enough to stay with the profile, which luckily didn't require any contingencies. But smooth...it was a long way from smooth. There were about 4 ft seas and the boat was rocking heavily. I got to the ladder, grabbed ahold of it, got one foot on and the boat dropped into a trough, came up and threw me back into the water. That's the first time that has ever happened. I finally got on the ladder and climbed aboard only to see my instructor standing there laughing his a*ss off and saying "Great job" Thing is I got to go diving today. It's all good....
I used up a sh*it load of gas. I had gas. I couldn't stow my deco reg because my hands were too cold. The stops went ok because I had pretty much memorized them and could see my timers enough to stay with the profile, which luckily didn't require any contingencies. But smooth...it was a long way from smooth. There were about 4 ft seas and the boat was rocking heavily. I got to the ladder, grabbed ahold of it, got one foot on and the boat dropped into a trough, came up and threw me back into the water. That's the first time that has ever happened. I finally got on the ladder and climbed aboard only to see my instructor standing there laughing his a*ss off and saying "Great job" Thing is I got to go diving today. It's all good....
