Living and diving in three-quarter time

[tomfcrist]

I am damn close to making the switch to CCR...Probably a REVO. May have to spend a week with Jim when I can afford it...Gotta sell some other toys first. Anyone want to buy a harley? LOL

I was on the Speigel twice two weeks ago, Had a come to jesus meeting in the engine room, but all worked out. Left a Chiefs coin in the mess...Copefully nobody finds it and says "wow, a free CPO coin!" LMAO.

 

[Capt Jim Wyatt]

I am damn close to making the switch to CCR...Probably a REVO. May have to spend a week with Jim when I can afford it...Gotta sell some other toys first. Anyone want to buy a harley? LOL

I was on the Speigel twice two weeks ago, Had a come to jesus meeting in the engine room, but all worked out. Left a Chiefs coin in the mess...Copefully nobody finds it and says "wow, a free CPO coin!" LMAO.

The rEvo is my choice. As far as the engine room goes its dark and silty and is considered an advanced wreck dive. I hope if any others of you elect to go to the engine room or other below decks spaces such as crew quarters or ammo magazines you have the requisite training. We have had fatalities in there due to lack of training and lack of proper wreck diving procedures.

 

[tomfcrist]

The rEvo is my choice. As far as the engine room goes its dark and silty and is considered an advanced wreck dive. I hope if any others of you elect to go to the engine room or other below decks spaces such as crew quarters or ammo magazines you have the requisite training. We have had fatalities in there due to lack of training and lack of proper wreck diving procedures.

For the record, the members of the team I was with are all very capable and highly trainied wreck divers. An equipment malfunction caused a chain of events that was less than desirable.

Yes that room is silty as hell, and there are some tight turns to get in.

 

[Capt Jim Wyatt]

For the record, the members of the team I was with are all very capable and highly trainied wreck divers. An equipment malfunction caused a chain of events that was less than desirable.

Yes that room is silty as hell, and there are some tight turns to get in.

I remember a few routes to get into the main engine rooms....mostly trunks that are straight vertical drops through two decks....is this the route you took?

 

[tomfcrist]

Yeah, not quite straight vertical... the drops seem to shift from one side to the other. Im a pretty long guy, so dropping straight down and making a tight 90 getting in is tricky for me...have to be carefull about where my feet and legs are. Springs in my boltsnaps on the deco bottle were weak, and my bottle decided to fall off into a mound of silt..lmao. Not a good way to start that section of the dive. then came entanglement....lost line....and zero vis exit. Fun right?

 

[Capt Jim Wyatt]

Yeah, not quite straight vertical... the drops seem to shift from one side to the other. Im a pretty long guy, so dropping straight down and making a tight 90 getting in is tricky for me...have to be carefull about where my feet and legs are. Springs in my boltsnaps on the deco bottle were weak, and my bottle decided to fall off into a mound of silt..lmao. Not a good way to start that section of the dive. then came entanglement....lost line....and zero vis exit. Fun right?

I spent as little time as I could down there because it was not uncommon for the temperature to be 100 degrees F & higher. I had to qualify as a Jr Engineering Officer of the Watch, so I did spend a LOT of time in the "hole" :bonk:

Is there a permanent line installed in those spaces?

 

[tomfcrist]

I spent as little time as I could down there because it was not uncommon for the temperature to be 100 degrees F & higher. I had to qualify as a Jr Engineering Officer of the Watch, so I did spend a LOT of time in the "hole" :bonk:

Is there a permanent line installed in those spaces?

Sorta. There is some orange cave line in there, but it's pretty rotted. Broken in some places. It would be a good project to cut out all the old line and put in something thicker and more permenant. Problem is that people will jump off the main and leave their lines like a spider web.

 

[Capt Jim Wyatt]

cave Diving in Romania

We heard a great presentation about cave diving in Romania by our newly minted IANTD Technical Cave Diver instructor Mihai Baciu at Cave Country Dive Shop.

 

[Doc Harry]

Hey Jim

In 1983 I got my butter bars down the beach at Pensacola.

Small world.

 

[thez_yo]

:blush: aww thanks guys!