waynel
Contributor
Just got back from Coz. Won't bore you with a complete trip report. We go to Coz so many times I've lost count. I will say this, and it hits right at the heart of all this discussion about "ripping currents." Yes, depending on the day and the reef the currents can be brisk. However, there is one reef where EVERY time I've been on that reef it was ripping so hard you felt like you were being jetisoned from the torpedo tube of sub. Frances (sp) "French Lady". It could be just plain bad luck, but the six or seven times I've been on that reef have always been like that. On this most recent trip, we started with 9 divers and only three of us made it to the end of the dive with the guide. Some just freaked out and others burned up air. These were the same divers who dove with us on a 90' dive on Columbia Deep on our first dive and did great.
And not to sound like a male chauvinist pig...but, my wife and most of the many female divers we've dived with at Coz over the years don't really love drift diving. My wife and several of her friends explain that they feel they don't have enough control over the dive in a drift. Now, PLEASE? Do not rip my head off. My wife married me because I am a champion for the rights of women. I am just reporting what women, both when we dive with a group and women divers we meet on the island, tell me.
Anyway, I think my wife and I are done with the reef known as French Lady. Anyone else notice how ripping thE current is on that long, flat reef?
And not to sound like a male chauvinist pig...but, my wife and most of the many female divers we've dived with at Coz over the years don't really love drift diving. My wife and several of her friends explain that they feel they don't have enough control over the dive in a drift. Now, PLEASE? Do not rip my head off. My wife married me because I am a champion for the rights of women. I am just reporting what women, both when we dive with a group and women divers we meet on the island, tell me.
Anyway, I think my wife and I are done with the reef known as French Lady. Anyone else notice how ripping thE current is on that long, flat reef?