Came across this video and would love to see an underwater version. Looks crazy.
This is what a lake covered in volcanic ash looks like. [VIDEO]
This is what a lake covered in volcanic ash looks like. [VIDEO]
Diving in a volcanic ash filled lake. Really
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I wonder what the vis was like? I also wonder what the effect of that ash is on the diver's 2nd stage and all the rest of his gear for that matter?
I sure hope he was a smoker. After letting his reg drag around in that crap it had to taste kinda nasty. 
Unless there is some thing valuble to salvage under there, what's the point. He didn't have a dive light, can't see any thing.
I know a farmer that dropped a tool box in a sludge pond over at the pig farm. Think those guys will come over an get it for him?
I know a farmer that dropped a tool box in a sludge pond over at the pig farm. Think those guys will come over an get it for him?
Mmmm, pumice. Yummy!
I dove in Kadavu when the Tonga underwater volcano was erupting. The ocean was covered with 6" of pumice (not as bad as in that video). Backrolls into the water were interesting... The regs get full of pumice bits but it's easily blown out.
The pumice usually sits right on top of the water. It's bizarre when you're getting in and out, and it's terrible on the outboards. It also makes it like a night dive -- take a light.
What's really weird is that after a few days the pumice becomes water logged and some of it goes neutrally buoyant. So you end up diving through a miniature asteroid field, some of them with clams starting to grow on them.
Very fun.
I dove in Kadavu when the Tonga underwater volcano was erupting. The ocean was covered with 6" of pumice (not as bad as in that video). Backrolls into the water were interesting... The regs get full of pumice bits but it's easily blown out.
The pumice usually sits right on top of the water. It's bizarre when you're getting in and out, and it's terrible on the outboards. It also makes it like a night dive -- take a light.
What's really weird is that after a few days the pumice becomes water logged and some of it goes neutrally buoyant. So you end up diving through a miniature asteroid field, some of them with clams starting to grow on them.
Very fun.
ScubaSteve
Wow.....what a DB
I sure hope he was a smoker. After letting his reg drag around in that crap it had to taste kinda nasty.
I am an ex smoker and let me tell you this......I'd be replacing my regs if I dove that lake. TO be more accurate, I'd rent regs for that dive
Mmmm, pumice. Yummy!
I dove in Kadavu when the Tonga underwater volcano was erupting. The ocean was covered with 6" of pumice (not as bad as in that video). Backrolls into the water were interesting... The regs get full of pumice bits but it's easily blown out.
The pumice usually sits right on top of the water. It's bizarre when you're getting in and out, and it's terrible on the outboards. It also makes it like a night dive -- take a light.
What's really weird is that after a few days the pumice becomes water logged and some of it goes neutrally buoyant. So you end up diving through a miniature asteroid field, some of them with clams starting to grow on them.
Very fun.
So that's pumice and not ash? That doesn't seem so bad. Ash, not so much...
ubp_sanity
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And wearing a snorkel, he must be planning on doing a surface swim. Don't even want to think about that
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