Sports and Recreation
Here are the first SCUBA videos. Well, they are only from the top as I don’t have a waterproof housing, lights, etc. etc.
Click here for the file. You’ll need Windows Media player and make sure your speakers are on.
If you want to see some cool ones, look here. Particularly the Nanaimo one. They are Quicktime and take a while to load.
That is all I can do now, is watch the videos. It is too windy for diving this weekend 🙁
And, I’m actually working the whole weekend anyhow to catch up on work.
Finally, the weather was great, and the water was smooth. So we went for our first two dry suit dives.
The first dive was as usual after a while between dives not as smooth as could be in general, the drysuit adds another level of complexity to buoyancy. And I find the first dive with completely new stuff kind of not easy and comfortable. I sucked air at an amazing rate, practically double but should be no leaks in the regulators.
The water temperature was 16 degrees C. That doesn’t seem cold, but in a wetsuit would be too cold, in the drysuit, cosy!
The visibility was pretty good. And the second dive went well, I didn’t such air so much, though still a bit more than I’d like.
Note the profile at the beginning. I went down and came back up as my buddy’s ear was not equalizing. So, we thought we had to call the dive. But then his ear was OK, so we went down and then my right ear was too tight and I was close to calling the dive off. You can see in the profile at around 6 meters a couple of pauses. But then it was OK so we went on and all was well. Interesting in that my left ear was tight from the vestiges of a cold so in the morning I took some Otrivin but only in the left side. Should have done both sides.
Stay tuned for some topside video of the dive. I’m looking for the digital video cable for the camcorder to upload it!
Update: I bought two of them and good thing. They are great and my wife has claimed one!
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divingaccidents : Diving Accident Repository
The links in this group has some good stuff on decompression theory.
Further links at:
From Divester
the Diver didn’t want resuce by helicopter as he’s afraid of heights. This quote by the helicopter pilot sums is all up:
I have been working on the helicopter for nearly 15 years and although I have seen people reluctant to be rescued, I have never met anyone who flatly refused.
A good collection of articles on SCUBA techniques etc.
DIVERNET from Diver Magazine – Technique features page