Scubamedicjoe
Contributor
This morning I was diving with Emerald Sea Dive Club at Cove 2 in West
Seattle. My photo taking buddy Kerry showed up and we buddied up. It was
another cloudy, foggy day with an air temp. of 33 degrees and vis up to 15
feet underwater. We went down in 12 feet of water after spotting a nudibranch
while on the surface. This nudibranch was white with brown small dots
speckled on it and we also saw another nudibranch that was around 2 inches
long that was white. We saw painted greenling, schools of stripped and pile
perch. We found the Honey Bear boat and saw larger schools of stripe perch
hanging out off the bow. There were kelp crabs and a cancer crab that was
trying to elude us. We saw a lot of crab shells but no octopus in sight.
There were bat stars, sunflower stars, blood stars, and one sunflower star
that was in the process of uprighting itself. There was a two foot long
lingcod that was harassing me till I back away from it's territory. At the
Honeybear is a rope and cinderblock trail leading from the stern towards
shore. We followed it to its end and navigated with our compass back to our
entry point when we came up in six feet of water.
I want to stress to everyone that doing buddy checks on each other should
always be done, including checking that each other's computer is set
correctly for air or nitrox diving. We had a member of our club that appears
to have gotten the bends, left shoulder pain, then becoming worst with
numbness in the left arm. DAN was called, fire dept. responded then the 1st
aid medic truck and finally transported by ambulance. In the meantime we did
what we could to give comfort and reassurance to our down diver, while
waiting for help to respond. I learned a lot from this experience, you and
your buddy must always check each other out for each dive, no matter how long
you have been diving, no one wants the bends, always check your computer
settings before each dive and show your buddy how to operate your computer
too, so they can perform that check, besides doing BWRAF.
Well, that's all for now, and my prayers to our diver's quick recovery. See
you all later,
Seattle. My photo taking buddy Kerry showed up and we buddied up. It was
another cloudy, foggy day with an air temp. of 33 degrees and vis up to 15
feet underwater. We went down in 12 feet of water after spotting a nudibranch
while on the surface. This nudibranch was white with brown small dots
speckled on it and we also saw another nudibranch that was around 2 inches
long that was white. We saw painted greenling, schools of stripped and pile
perch. We found the Honey Bear boat and saw larger schools of stripe perch
hanging out off the bow. There were kelp crabs and a cancer crab that was
trying to elude us. We saw a lot of crab shells but no octopus in sight.
There were bat stars, sunflower stars, blood stars, and one sunflower star
that was in the process of uprighting itself. There was a two foot long
lingcod that was harassing me till I back away from it's territory. At the
Honeybear is a rope and cinderblock trail leading from the stern towards
shore. We followed it to its end and navigated with our compass back to our
entry point when we came up in six feet of water.
I want to stress to everyone that doing buddy checks on each other should
always be done, including checking that each other's computer is set
correctly for air or nitrox diving. We had a member of our club that appears
to have gotten the bends, left shoulder pain, then becoming worst with
numbness in the left arm. DAN was called, fire dept. responded then the 1st
aid medic truck and finally transported by ambulance. In the meantime we did
what we could to give comfort and reassurance to our down diver, while
waiting for help to respond. I learned a lot from this experience, you and
your buddy must always check each other out for each dive, no matter how long
you have been diving, no one wants the bends, always check your computer
settings before each dive and show your buddy how to operate your computer
too, so they can perform that check, besides doing BWRAF.
Well, that's all for now, and my prayers to our diver's quick recovery. See
you all later,
