Category: SCUBA

So you can know the differnce between suits. I did my probably last dry suit dive for a while today. Now the water is warmer and I’ll switch to the wet suit.

And to end it in style, the dry suit, which uses latex rubber cuffs at the wrists, neck and has built in boots leaked on my right arm from my wrist. You wear polar fleece or other other undergarments in a dry suit to stay warm depending on the water temperature. Well fortunately the water was quite warm so I just got a wet arm. I saw the problem on the way down, it was my polar fleece sticking out of the cuff and letting water in, and fixed it.

Waterproof Wetsuits – Divester

Remember his dad?

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Jean-Michel Cousteau’s Ocean Adventures

Most dive places including here at Dive Caroline offer a try dive in the pool. So they were keen to do it.

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Yaay, more diving. The weather was great. Went out to Kubbar Island. Dry suit again. The visibility was great first dive. Saw a cool nudibranch (Sea Slug).

This one is from the Red Sea but very similar to the one here.
The first dive was like two as we went back to the boat for more weights as one of the guys didn’t have enough. With the dry suit you need tons of weight. In my 3 mm wetsuit I use 9 kg and in the dry suit I need about 15 kg. So he got the extra 2 kg weight and while I was trying to put it on him (in his BCD pocket) I dropped it. First thought hope nobody is underneath. No problem there wasn’t. So I went down and actually found it quickly but not him, he’d aborted because all the up and down had bothered his ears. The pressure changes when diving are the most in the first ten meters. That is because the pressure doubles at 10 meters and then at 20 meters it is only 1.5 times etc.

So, the profile below is the rest of the first dive I did with the other person.

Finally, it was getting late, two of us went on the second dive. Some didn’t. Visibility wasn’t as good but still, in the water is always nice. Even with the dry suit and one good layer of fleece underneath, we felt the cold.

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.