Conestoga Dive Pics from today

[Air_Miser]

Ok, my fingers have warmed up enought to type.

Did The Connie today with Drowned-Rat, ArtW, and FreeFloat. Haven't got the marine-pack for my camera yet so all I can offer is shore pics, still worth a peek though. Photos are here:

http://www.ottawascubaswap.com/connie/cold-connie.htm

In a related story, I'll be buying a frigging drysuit REALLY soon.

cheers!
Matt.

 

[dmdoug]

Some great shots.....

Really liking the charter to the Connie.

Safe Diving,

 

[artw]

it was a nice dive. did about 30 minutes before my backupregulator decided to freeflow. freefloat and I are going back tomorrow and we're going to try the drift. if her regulator acts up again we'll just freedive it.
I've never been so excited to dive the conny.

 

[divemed06]

Ehat was the temp?

 

[DS1]

Ehat was the temp?

I got 32f and my buddy got 36f so im not sure wich is right

 

[Under Michael]

I got 32f and my buddy got 36f so im not sure wich is right

My computer said 32 also.
UM

 

[DrownedRat]

Loved the captions I should have the underwater pics developed today and worst case (if they even turned out) I'll have them scanned and posted by Monday. As for temp I don't have a temp guage but I believe 32 was the number on Matts guage. Either way pretty chilly

Cheers

 

[knives]

Nice pictures, it sure does look cold out there!

 

[Kevin R]

Nice pictures, it sure does look cold out there!

Nice photo's, good to see some adventurous folks out having fun.

The last pic shows one of the biggest hazards of diving the river when it starts to warm up. It's not uncommon to see large sheets of ice drifting down the river that will sometimes catch on the shore , or objects like the connies stack. Uh oh, now it's an overhead dive, where was that exit again?

Just something to keep in the back of your mind when planning your dive.

 

[artw]

Good point Kevin. Our dive plan was to stay on the shipping channel side of the smoke stack. It was kind of neat seeing little iceburgs drifting down the middle of the river... due to the large expanse of open water downstream from the stack I was confident in the dive plan that you'd need a pretty -big- 'berg to block all exit points.
For our second dive I was able to try out the X-shorts. Love them.