pacificgal
Rest in Peace...
Met Bogie, John and Eric with my buddy Paul at Breakwater Sunday morning at 7 am. Wel, I was there at 6:35 and watched the sun rise while waiting for my buddies. Beautiful day. It was Paul's 100th dive, so I wanted to do something special with him. He's never been to the metridiums, and James, John and Eric knew exactly where it was so we started the long ass surface swim out to the met fields, and dropped right on top of them. Buddy teams were James, John and Eric as team #1, Paul and I as team #2. Everything was great, viz about 20', 54 degrees, Since we dropped right on them we got to swim around quite a bit going from rock cropping to rock cropping lookng in all the crevices. Paul and I swam back in underwater mostly, surfaced pretty close to shore. As I was swimming back in I looked down and could still see the bottom so told Paul to stay right there, I was going to see what the vertical viz was. 17' clear as gin. Nice. Max depth 68 fsw, time 37 mins.
Second dive Paul and I struck out on our own to find the barge again. I'm familiar with Paul and know we have similar gas management and felt that this time we could probably do a better job finding our way back from the barge than last time we tried.
Kicked out to the end of the BW wall and while we were getting set to descend, Paul points behind me and it's a mother otter and her baby, about 4 feet from us, then they came to about a foot of me and swam away. What a treat. We then dropped, swam out to the barge, dodging sea lions the whole way. We were starting our first sweep of the barge and Paul gets my attention and points off in the distance, I start swimming towards where he's pointing till I see a realy big dorsal fin and I'm thinking...***! Shark!? No. Got a little closer and found it was a pretty big mola. Thank goodness! And I was swimming towards it, lol, what an idiot, if it had been a big shark, well, who knows.
Did a much better job navigating back in (I really think I'm getting this compass thing down) till buddy reached rock bottom psi, we surfaced and had a great swim back in. Max depth 69 fsw, 36 mins.
What a neat, neat day. I'm up to 93 dives, going to need yet another logbook after this coming weekend. Gone through a whole logbook since 9/26. Need a bigger logbook, I think.
Second dive Paul and I struck out on our own to find the barge again. I'm familiar with Paul and know we have similar gas management and felt that this time we could probably do a better job finding our way back from the barge than last time we tried.
Kicked out to the end of the BW wall and while we were getting set to descend, Paul points behind me and it's a mother otter and her baby, about 4 feet from us, then they came to about a foot of me and swam away. What a treat. We then dropped, swam out to the barge, dodging sea lions the whole way. We were starting our first sweep of the barge and Paul gets my attention and points off in the distance, I start swimming towards where he's pointing till I see a realy big dorsal fin and I'm thinking...***! Shark!? No. Got a little closer and found it was a pretty big mola. Thank goodness! And I was swimming towards it, lol, what an idiot, if it had been a big shark, well, who knows.
Did a much better job navigating back in (I really think I'm getting this compass thing down) till buddy reached rock bottom psi, we surfaced and had a great swim back in. Max depth 69 fsw, 36 mins.
What a neat, neat day. I'm up to 93 dives, going to need yet another logbook after this coming weekend. Gone through a whole logbook since 9/26. Need a bigger logbook, I think.