Where did you dive today?

[El Orans]

A new record for diving in :cold: water in my drysuit...

I've done the same site with the same temperature a few years ago in a wetsuit...

[table 0 0 3]#|Location|Duration|Depth|Temp
358|Dreischor Gemaal|37 Minutes|12M/39Ft|1C/33F[/table]
So, where did you dive today?

 

[MXGratefulDiver]

I did two dives today ... each about an hour long. This morning I got up and went for an early dip with my new camera. It was a solo dive and I was on a mission ... wanted to find this Pacific Spiny Lumpsucker I saw with Lynne and Kirk the other night.

Found him .... took about a hundred pictures ... all moving the stobes around, trying different settings, and whatnot ... got one decent one.

I need a crash course in strobology ... half the time the damn things wouldn't even fire (seem to only want to work when the camera's in Auto mode).

Went back later with Cheng ... hoping to find the lumpsucker again. No such luck ... I guess even those weird little golf balls with eyes move around some. Took another hundred or so bad pictures ... didn't even keep any.

Bonaire in 2-1/2 weeks ... hope I get this new setup figured out before then.

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

 

[TSandM]

That particular lumpsucker is probably deep in a hole somewhere, undergoing intensive therapy after three nights of having hundreds of photographs taken of him . . . He's now terrified of papparazzi on scuba!

Not today, but last weekend, we dove Saanich Inlet and saw the cloud sponges, and I've currently got a cloud sponge obsession. The creatures are so amazing to look at, harbor so many other animals, and are so interesting to understand from a zoological point of view . . . Plus the search for more of them will keep me out of my local comfort zone!

(BTW, water here is 42 degrees on the surface, and I thought that was COLD!)

 

[shoredivr]

TS and M, where were you in Saanich? I did a fantastic dive there a couple of years ago off Seananus Island, the cloud sponges were deeper than 90 ft, two locations.

Lucky you!

 

[J.R.]

In the great scheme of things these dives aren't super spectacular... but, for me... they were incredible...

Did my first three ice dives this weekend under training... just enough experience now to know how much I don't know... but... ironed out just enough of the wrinkles to start thinkin' this ice diving stuff may well have a future in my game bag...

... heck of a lot of work... but WOW... haven't had this kind of kick in years...

 

[sabbath999]

Where did I dive today?

Sigh.

The pool.

Yesterday and today, we put in about 4 hours each day working on skills, mask off skills like swimming maskless, finding lost masks, mask replacement while holding neutral buoyancy... working on buoyancy, buddy air sharing skills including ascents and descents while sharing air, maintaining buoyancy while sharing air, blah blah blah you all get the point.

 

[bowlofpetunias]

That particular lumpsucker is probably deep in a hole somewhere, undergoing intensive therapy after three nights of having hundreds of photographs taken of him . . . He's now terrified of papparazzi on scuba!

Not today, but last weekend, we dove Saanich Inlet and saw the cloud sponges, and I've currently got a cloud sponge obsession. The creatures are so amazing to look at, harbor so many other animals, and are so interesting to understand from a zoological point of view . . . Plus the search for more of them will keep me out of my local comfort zone!

(BTW, water here is 42 degrees on the surface, and I thought that was COLD!)

next time you see that critter it will be using a white cane

We found a couple Port Jackson Sharks mating once..... we got fish porno and the Sharks just ignored the 8 divers with flashes firing. Maybe they figured the fireworks were due to their own activity!

 

[Jan Kruger]

We did 4 dives at local quarry - Miracle waters - with newly qualified openwater diver and her hubby. She crawled a bit on the bottom due to inexperience and poor buoyancy skills so we noted it as bad viz dives.Luckily on the fourth dive she didn't join us so that was an Excellent dive ,also because my wife dived with me for the first time since my eldest son was born and he just turned 5.Diving with her again reminded me how wonderful it was diving with her before- it was our thing DIVING.We were preparing for our upcoming trip at the end of FEB going to Mozambique diving at Ponta Malongane !

 

[bobshreve]

My wife and I did 3 wreck dives at Subic Bay in the Philippines. Actually we did one of them twice. At LST we saw 2 or 3 bull sharks a number of times. Additionally, there were large schools of barracuda, scissortail fusiliers, and a bunch of big snappers.

It was wonderful.

 

[matohead]

I'm jealous, I dove in a pool two weekends ago, Saturday and Sunday with an open water class and a couple of refreshers