colby
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Passed my PADI Deep Diver certification on the weekend, and finished with two excellent dives on the Sunday. Things I learned...
My asp (air sucking pig) ways are really exagerated in deep water. My first dive into deep water, I was on an AL-80. I did this dive in my AOW course on an AL-80, but it was our second dive of the day and so was a bit shorter. So Saturday's dive was the first of the day, a bit longer as we did some timed tasks under water, but some "practicing" of alternate air helped me get back on the boat with just over 500psi in the tank!
I switched to an AL-100 for the second and fourth dives, and used my steel HP-130 for the deep dive first thing on Sunday. Lots of air left on those three last dives.
We dove out of the Brockville area, and did the Muskie, Gaskin, Ash Island drift and then the Kinghorn. Add in a water gun fight, some DQ late Saturday night and a couple of bbq's, and it was an excellent weekend!
My asp (air sucking pig) ways are really exagerated in deep water. My first dive into deep water, I was on an AL-80. I did this dive in my AOW course on an AL-80, but it was our second dive of the day and so was a bit shorter. So Saturday's dive was the first of the day, a bit longer as we did some timed tasks under water, but some "practicing" of alternate air helped me get back on the boat with just over 500psi in the tank!
I switched to an AL-100 for the second and fourth dives, and used my steel HP-130 for the deep dive first thing on Sunday. Lots of air left on those three last dives.
We dove out of the Brockville area, and did the Muskie, Gaskin, Ash Island drift and then the Kinghorn. Add in a water gun fight, some DQ late Saturday night and a couple of bbq's, and it was an excellent weekend!