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i have dreams of me in a purple wetsuit with matching fins, a orange snorkle and, lime green tanks one with and mount and dive skin the other with a abulsout sucba sikn happy kicking away watching the pretty fishys.
i think im gonna be a DORK
Hey! That's the concrete platform right by the metal stairs at Vortex! That's right where I played solitaire the last time I hit the springs.
I used the metal "handhold" behind you (i.e. toward the wooden double-stairs) to clip off my stage bottle while I was playing. (I dove two AL80s that dive, but I had to call the dive after only three hours and a minute of shallow bottom time.)
Hey! That's the concrete platform right by the metal stairs at Vortex! That's right where I played solitaire the last time I hit the springs.
Actually, I might be heading back there this weekend. My most adept buddy has finally turned to the Dry Side. In fact, she just called me to verify what backplate and wing she's ordering to go with it, and the drysuit is supposed to arrive *tomorrow*! Woo-hoo!
You can be a Dork Diver without a drysuit, of course, but if you're going to also be a Hazelnut, having a drysuit certainly makes things more comfortable. (It's still optional, of course, but it seems to be contagious.)
The temperature in Vortex is a constant 68°F year-round. It's chilly, but it's passable in wetsuits. I don't think I'd try it in short sleeves, but there's probably a significant exposure time differential between my dives and checkout dives. Almost every non-checkout dive I do in Vortex is at *least* an hour, and the last dive I did there was 181 minutes long. Three hours and a minute would be hypothermia in short sleeves, I'd venture.Clay, her pix show short sleeves and no gloves. You're talking dry suits. Are you sure its the same place? And if it is, either shes damn tough or you're....well....... not
(Of course, the jury's still out whether we can get over there, but I'd like to get her some drysuit time before Mammoth Lake opens March 1st, and we don't have any classes scheduled to have pool sessions before then.)
