OK! Second Open Water dive since getting certified. Went to Alki Beach again. This time, we picked up a surface float/flag to bring with us. We didn't have one last time, but there was a scuba class out there already with a float/flag. We also brought a camera.
This time, I remembered to set a heading on my compass striaght out from shore, and we followed that to about 20 feet. There we found a rock to anchor the buoy and kept going to 60 feet depth. There, we all checked air and found that one of my buddies was at 1000 psi. I don't know what the heck happened. My other buddy and I were both around 2000 psi. And that's funny because I'm 6' 5" 190 and she is a little asian girl about 5' 120.
Needless to say, we headed back up. Navigating with the compass, we came back right to the spot where we anchored the line. This was hard to do because there was quite a current going on. This was the strongest current I've dived in so far. We swam into the current the entire time and never got upstream. We just did a straight line down and back. It took a big effort to actually swim into the current and get somewhere.
OH YEAH: On the way back up, I looked at my dive computer to get the depth, looked back up, then glanced back down to get my psi left and all the information on the screen was GONE except for this: "ERR". Stayed that way until we got back to the dive shop, and they confirmed it went tits up.
Anyway, here are some pictures we snapped:
The three of us before the dive (I'm in the middle)
At the bottom holding the line... (hadn't done this before)
Swimming away somewhere
Some crabs
Looking straight up at about 20' under
Some Anemonies
These are either oranges, or tennis balls, or something (hmm maybe a marine id class would be a good idea!)
Line going up to a permanent buoy.
And our anchored line appears before us on the way back!!! YES!!!
In the grass on the way up, the slope is so shallow it's like a safety stop. Lots of little critters to see if you look close.
Some more of dive buddies
Dive flag fell off the post
I'm going to have to figure out how to set it up properly.
This time, I remembered to set a heading on my compass striaght out from shore, and we followed that to about 20 feet. There we found a rock to anchor the buoy and kept going to 60 feet depth. There, we all checked air and found that one of my buddies was at 1000 psi. I don't know what the heck happened. My other buddy and I were both around 2000 psi. And that's funny because I'm 6' 5" 190 and she is a little asian girl about 5' 120.
Needless to say, we headed back up. Navigating with the compass, we came back right to the spot where we anchored the line. This was hard to do because there was quite a current going on. This was the strongest current I've dived in so far. We swam into the current the entire time and never got upstream. We just did a straight line down and back. It took a big effort to actually swim into the current and get somewhere.
OH YEAH: On the way back up, I looked at my dive computer to get the depth, looked back up, then glanced back down to get my psi left and all the information on the screen was GONE except for this: "ERR". Stayed that way until we got back to the dive shop, and they confirmed it went tits up.
Anyway, here are some pictures we snapped:
The three of us before the dive (I'm in the middle)
At the bottom holding the line... (hadn't done this before)
Swimming away somewhere
Some crabs
Looking straight up at about 20' under
Some Anemonies
These are either oranges, or tennis balls, or something (hmm maybe a marine id class would be a good idea!)
Line going up to a permanent buoy.
And our anchored line appears before us on the way back!!! YES!!!
In the grass on the way up, the slope is so shallow it's like a safety stop. Lots of little critters to see if you look close.
Some more of dive buddies
Dive flag fell off the post
I'm going to have to figure out how to set it up properly.
