Erik Il Rosso
Contributor
What a day !!!
The dive was pretty simple, 10 minutes at -40 metres, resurfacing and switching to O2 at -6 metres, my instructor wanted to see if I could follow the specified run time...
No troubles at all with narcosis, I was completly focused and resurfacing was pretty good up to -21 metres then I saw the anchor line and one part of my mind was telling me :"Grab it as you have always done in the past" the other part was telling me :"There is no need to grab it"...
There is where I had a few problems but my instructor understood that my mind was fighting and took me away from the anchor line...
Switching to O2 was a piece of cake, no troubles at all, no bad reactions...
The last 6 meters were also quite good...
I must admit that I could not have handled another task today I was a little bit under pressure...
My computer looked strange to me in "Gauge Mode", I was searching for the NDL but I couldn't see it on the display...
I had a slate on my wrist for the first time and it was not easy to follow the specified run time...
Last but not least I wanted to dump my BP/W using the rear OPV but when I tried to reach it I found the decompression bottle and not the string, lack of muscle memory...
I had to use the the power inflator to dump it but I moved a little bit from horizontal to vertical...
Ok, Rome wasn't built in a day, too many new things to be handled at once, the dive profile is certainly not so good on paper but I know I can improve...
Next time I hope it will be better...
Ciao Erik Il Rosso
The dive was pretty simple, 10 minutes at -40 metres, resurfacing and switching to O2 at -6 metres, my instructor wanted to see if I could follow the specified run time...
No troubles at all with narcosis, I was completly focused and resurfacing was pretty good up to -21 metres then I saw the anchor line and one part of my mind was telling me :"Grab it as you have always done in the past" the other part was telling me :"There is no need to grab it"...
There is where I had a few problems but my instructor understood that my mind was fighting and took me away from the anchor line...
Switching to O2 was a piece of cake, no troubles at all, no bad reactions...
The last 6 meters were also quite good...
I must admit that I could not have handled another task today I was a little bit under pressure...
My computer looked strange to me in "Gauge Mode", I was searching for the NDL but I couldn't see it on the display...
I had a slate on my wrist for the first time and it was not easy to follow the specified run time...
Last but not least I wanted to dump my BP/W using the rear OPV but when I tried to reach it I found the decompression bottle and not the string, lack of muscle memory...
I had to use the the power inflator to dump it but I moved a little bit from horizontal to vertical...
Ok, Rome wasn't built in a day, too many new things to be handled at once, the dive profile is certainly not so good on paper but I know I can improve...
Next time I hope it will be better...
Ciao Erik Il Rosso