Where did you solo dive today?

[34109411]

Powder Plant Beach, Ferndale WA.

Mostly what this spot had going for it was close, accessible shore dive, but it actually turned out to be pretty cool.

After a long ride on the struggle bus.

I got out there and struggled into my gear, slogged into the water and immediately broke a fin strap. I thought about calling it there, but I had made a bunch of configuration changes I figured I might as well try out. Dumped my BCD and still couldn't sink, so was pulling myself along the structure hand over hand trying to stay down. Turns out I didn't have all the air out. Oops.

With that sorted I was finally able to get to the bottom and there I discovered that moving 6 lbs from my waist to the upper tank band was a bit much and I was now head heavy and rolling left. OK, annoying but manageable. I swam out a ways and checked out the critters on the bottom until I hit 1300 lbs and turned it. When I popped up I was within 100 feet of where I started and so I'm calling that a navigational win. Unfortunately, when I left the bottom at 8 feet to spyhop I think I lost my weight pouch off the cam band because I could not get back down and it was gone when I got home.

Highlight of the dive was seeing three white lined nudibranchs. They were significantly larger than I expected and I have never seen nudis before.

I need to get another 6 lbs of lead and try putting it on my lower cam band until I get the trim right.

Air 2080 start, 650 end
Pony 2400/2400
Total time about 30 minutes
Max depth 20 feet
Exposure protection 7mm

oh well it look like one of the dives i do sometimes something goes a bit sideways but you make it ! i like that a navigational win .

 

[MB NZ]

#952
Lake Taharoa
Kai Iwi Lakes
Northland
New Zealand

A very rare freshwater dive. We took our son and his mates to a lake on the west coast to do water sports. I packed the dive gear because why not?! Dive wasn't very interesting. Visibility varied between one and five metres. Saw some small fish. Tropical 25 degrees C at the surface, a cool 19 degrees C at 20 metres. Maximum depth 20.3 metres. Dive time 50 minutes (I got bored!).

 

[34109411]

wow nice boat.

 

[jadairiii]

79 minute beach dive, in the water just after sunrise. Limited on lobsters and found a nice (dead) conch shell.

 

[34109411]

79 minute beach dive, in the water just after sunrise. Limited on lobsters and found a nice (dead) conch shell.

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wow where is that ?

 

[jadairiii]

wow where is that ?

Ft Lauderdale, FL

 

[34109411]

Ft Lauderdale, FL

one of my favorite cities.

 

[NothingClever]

yep manpacked everything in and out

Right on, brother

 

[NothingClever]

Semi solo in Jupiter.

I know I get off the boat with everybody. I usually get rolling right away and sometimes there are other people around and sometimes there aren’t. If I want to, I can turn and do this modified frog kick (mostly from the ankles) to counteract the current and stay put. Usually it takes a solid minute or two and then I can make out a vertical bubble plume. Sometimes I wait for acknowledgment of positive visual contact, sometimes I don’t. If I’m doing my own thing, I send up a DSMB to make it easy for the Captain and dry DM to track me relative to others. Actually when I send up my DSMB that usually means I’ve made a intentional decided to permanently break off from the wet DM’s gaggle.