Who wants to dive the Conestoga Saturday AM

[Under Michael]

PM me if you're interested in diving Saturday AM. Would also consider other open water sites if they exist. Cheers,
UM

 

[artw]

Undermichael, myself, and 2 gentlemen from Gatineau did a nice dive on the Conny this afternoon. One word Spectacular. the weather was beautiful. A bit of a breeze put the temps around -10C. I have never seen visibility underwater like this estimate 75 feet. on the smokestack I could see half way up the wreck on both sides. Wow. :icosm13:

We're there again tomorrow at 10:30 if anyone wants to join.

 

[DS1]

I might be there tommorow at 11am if rockport is to iced up

 

[FreeFloat]

DrownedRat, his buddy (I don't know his board name) and I had a pleasant enough dive on the Connie today. As I sort of suspected, my rented regulator freeflowed about 6 minutes into the dive, so I hauled the scuba gear ashore and switched to freedive fins. I didn't have enough time to really get any freediving in though, although the day was certainly nice enough for it - sunny and warmish with a bit of breeze. And I know what artw meant about the viz! While it wasn't 75', it had to be 30-40 at least. Wow! And the current was rockin' although that was fun too.

DrownedRat, thanks to you and your buddy for letting me dive with you as well as retrieving my knife - I'm going to have to put a weight-keeper on the harness to prevent it sliding off when I undo my harness to reach the valve of the tank I mounted too high :small:

 

[Air_Miser]

Yep, "Bobbing for Blades", the new sport that's sweeping the country!

Fun day, now- back to work......

Matt.

DrownedRat, his buddy (I don't know his board name) and I had a pleasant enough dive on the Connie today. As I sort of suspected, my rented regulator freeflowed about 6 minutes into the dive, so I hauled the scuba gear ashore and switched to freedive fins. I didn't have enough time to really get any freediving in though, although the day was certainly nice enough for it - sunny and warmish with a bit of breeze. And I know what artw meant about the viz! While it wasn't 75', it had to be 30-40 at least. Wow! And the current was rockin' although that was fun too.

DrownedRat, thanks to you and your buddy for letting me dive with you as well as retrieving my knife - I'm going to have to put a weight-keeper on the harness to prevent it sliding off when I undo my harness to reach the valve of the tank I mounted too high :small:

 

[artw]

yeah jimc and I dove the conny later on in the afternoon around 3pm and did a drift off it. I did my usual bag shoot drill at 20 feet. unfortunately the sun had gone behind a cloud, and when we got out there was a pretty strong wind from the approaching snowstorm.
those icefisherman across on the Gallop must think we're nuts.
enough of the conny, lets do Rockport next weekend boys!

 

[DrownedRat]

Anytime Too bad about the freeflow, nice way to turf a dive. Ya know, this has happening to you a lot recently, I'm thinking that maybe Freeflow might be a more appropriate name for you ;-) FYI I believe Matt's reg will finally have the cold water kit installed by this weekend so you are always welcome to my spare reg (the one he borrows). A nice US diver with a CWK.

Cheers

DrownedRat, his buddy (I don't know his board name) and I had a pleasant enough dive on the Connie today. As I sort of suspected, my rented regulator freeflowed about 6 minutes into the dive, so I hauled the scuba gear ashore and switched to freedive fins. I didn't have enough time to really get any freediving in though, although the day was certainly nice enough for it - sunny and warmish with a bit of breeze. And I know what artw meant about the viz! While it wasn't 75', it had to be 30-40 at least. Wow! And the current was rockin' although that was fun too.

DrownedRat, thanks to you and your buddy for letting me dive with you as well as retrieving my knife - I'm going to have to put a weight-keeper on the harness to prevent it sliding off when I undo my harness to reach the valve of the tank I mounted too high :small:

 

[FreeFloat]

Anytime Too bad about the freeflow, nice way to turf a dive. Ya know, this has happening to you a lot recently, I'm thinking that maybe Freeflow might be a more appropriate name for you ;-) FYI I believe Matt's reg will finally have the cold water kit installed by this weekend so you are always welcome to my spare reg (the one he borrows). A nice US diver with a CWK.

Cheers

Thanks you for the offer - I'll probably take you up on it possibly for this coming weekend. Yes the reg acted up on both dives a week ago - in fact I remember stewing about it and swearing I wasn't gonna trust it in Open Water again. That's why yesterday before we got in the water I let you both know what my plan was in the event of a freeflow - yesterday's [attempt at a] dive was basically the reg's last chance to prove itself to me in cold Open Water.

 

[Under Michael]

Thanks you for the offer - I'll probably take you up on it possibly for this coming weekend. Yes the reg acted up on both dives a week ago - in fact I remember stewing about it and swearing I wasn't gonna trust it in Open Water again. That's why yesterday before we got in the water I let you both know what my plan was in the event of a freeflow - yesterday's [attempt at a] dive was basically the reg's last chance to prove itself to me in cold Open Water.

Hey Larissa, I've just found an adjustment on my backup reg for setting the cracking pressure. I'm told that this will cure my freeflow problem on this reg. I wonder if your second stage has a similar adjustment.
UM

 

[FreeFloat]

It does, but since it's a rental reg with a somewhat questionable history I'd prefer to replace with a known good reg, rather than attempt to adjust. I hadn't done a thing to it all winter under the "if it ain't broke, don't mess with it" rule of thumb. It's only started acting up the last two weeks, and for those of you familiar with my diving history, I'm sure you'd be as puzzled as I am as to why the reg was functioning quite nicely all winter then waits for spring to start acting up.