Nitrox Junkie
Great Lakes diver
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All right I have let the cat out of the bag. We, (ICUROK- pronounced "I see You are OK", Ray Werner and myself met Saturday morning at the Cracker Barrel in Indianapolis for breakfast. We met two camera men from WFYI (PBS) and a bunch of Ray and Scott's friends from town that had organized a christmas tree raising @ Gilboa Quarry which is going to be televised on January 27th @ 7:30pm.(WFYI out of Indianapolis) We got there and began our slow gear set up in the very cold air. After hurrying and carefully walking down the steps at the instructors platform we entered the water and were amazed at the vis. On the surface from the furthest platform we could see all the underwater platforms (2) the Caddy and if the light was right I am sure you could have seen the tail of the plane. We headed out and watched the lift bag being attatched to the X-mas tree then pow there she went to the surface. Now for the real dive. We swam out past the plane across the road knowing our target was close. The wall finally came into view and down we went. 50', 60', 70', 80', 90', BRRRRRRR, 100', 110', 120', 125' touchdown. WoW WHAT A FEELING. The vis here was fantastic but in the pit (SUMP) which is never very good, the vis was even better. Over the wall the vis was very clear almost like we were in a spring or something. Now this is a figure of speech but in comparison to how it usually is you would probable say the same thing. We got closer and closer to the pit and then saw the bottom drop out from under us. We knew we were there. From the East side of the pit we could see the wall on the west side the south side and the north side all at the same time. This being the deepest part of the quarry you will get your deepest readings here but usually you cant see 4 feet in front of you. This time you could view the whole bottom and look for dips in the topagraphy to find that well famed deepest spot. We did and it read 135'. We roamed for a while but time was cut short because of Scott's P-Valve detatching from his Dry suit.........(WOW that must have Been COLD). Just kidding making sure you were still with us. Our computers were actually the deciding factor and up to the tubes we went. From there we swam past the wreck under the new underwater platform and to the rear of the plane where we would surface. The group fetching the tree was about done and we said our good bye's. They left us some snack foods and took off. We filled out tanks (Happy New Year, Air has went up $1.00) and began suiting up for out second dive. Again back to the pit where again we had another awsome dive. Since it was pretty much a mirror dive I won't bore you with the details other than it was longer, totaling 52 minutes for me and 63 for Scott and very, very cold with 37/ 38 degree water temperatures. Good diving all around. We had a great time and talked quite a few times about the dive on the 18th with the KPP group, about the divers that we had met from the KPP group and the ones were still looking forward to and scared to meet all at the same time
It was a great day for diving, with sunny skies and good company and two more fun memories to log down in my ever growing log book. Thanks for listening.
Jeff "Great lakes diver"ara: 
It was a great day for diving, with sunny skies and good company and two more fun memories to log down in my ever growing log book. Thanks for listening.Jeff "Great lakes diver"
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