fred32176
Contributor
Yesterday I dove Breakers Reef and Flower Garden out of West Palm Beach, FL. Our first dive was Breakers Reef and I wasn't able to hold a 15' safety stop for 3 minutes. The current once you hit about 20 - 25 feet seemed like it wanted to take you up. I could only tell I was moving upward as I could see the depth change and the ascent indicator on my computer. On our second dive at Flower Garden, I managed to remain in the safety stop range, but had to occasionally fin downward to avoid drifting up. I had a deployed DSMB and no gas in my BCD on ascending both dives. Both dives were hot drop drift dives and the current was much faster on the surface than at depth.
I got sharkskin T2 for Christmas and dropped my fresh water weight to 8 lbs with a AL 80 and 0 lbs with a steel farber bse 100. Yesterday for the salt water dives, I was using steel farber bse 100 cylinders with 32% O nitrox and 10 lbs of weight. I had no buoyancy problem at depth. On the first dive I didn't put any gas in the BCD and pulled the dump valve before ascending. On the second dive I put two puffs of gas in the BCD and I dumped the BCD gas before ascending.
How do you maintain a safety stop in fairly strong current with a DSMB deployed. I did not deploy my DSMB while on the bottom rather I did it during the assent to to safety stop. Should I have used a couple of more pounds of weight? Would it help to deploy the DSMB from the bottom?
I got sharkskin T2 for Christmas and dropped my fresh water weight to 8 lbs with a AL 80 and 0 lbs with a steel farber bse 100. Yesterday for the salt water dives, I was using steel farber bse 100 cylinders with 32% O nitrox and 10 lbs of weight. I had no buoyancy problem at depth. On the first dive I didn't put any gas in the BCD and pulled the dump valve before ascending. On the second dive I put two puffs of gas in the BCD and I dumped the BCD gas before ascending.
How do you maintain a safety stop in fairly strong current with a DSMB deployed. I did not deploy my DSMB while on the bottom rather I did it during the assent to to safety stop. Should I have used a couple of more pounds of weight? Would it help to deploy the DSMB from the bottom?