Disabled Veterans SCUBA Project.<\/a><\/p>\nIn With: 2900 psi
The water felt colder than yesterday.<\/p>\n
Our group swam out to where Reverend Al believed the statue to be and submerged.<\/p>\n
We hung around that area for about 10 minutes; I didn’t think we found the statue, but Al told me later, “We were right on it, you must have seen it.”<\/p>\n
Well, I didn’t.<\/p>\n
All throughout my dive, my mask kept leaking and I kept clearing it – sort of annoying.<\/p>\n
I’m not bad on air, but nobody would classify me as a fish; Melvin was diving with 20 more cubic feet of air than I had, so I worried about cutting his time short.<\/p>\n
We started to head for the cove when I had 2500 psi left.<\/p>\n
Visibility was really good – 25 feet, maybe more in some areas.<\/p>\n
We traveled through the kelp at a zero heading to 35 feet, then took a 30 degree heading to the cove.<\/p>\n
We came across a huge bat ray, large sun stars and a few potentially legal lobsters that were hiding in a reef, out of reach.<\/p>\n
After peaking once, to reaffirm my bearings home, I surface just outside the Cove with 300 psi; Melvin had over 1200 psi left.<\/p>\n
I probably should have been paired up with someone who had an 80 cubic foot tank.<\/p>\n
Professional Debriefer Paul was on shore to document our easy exit.<\/p>\n
The debriefing was interesting with Melvin, Military Bob and Not New Chris – all of whom were either active or retired military.<\/p>\n
Melvin got back from a tour in Iraq, maybe a year ago or so, and said, “If you are one of the ones that go out on patrol, it isn’t if you are going to get blown up, but when.”<\/p>\n
“I saw a suicide bomber and a cement truck blow up… the guy that replaced me when I went home was killed two weeks later… some soldiers were blown up six times, all to get sent back on patrol.”<\/p>\n
“A lot of soldiers can’t drive from here to Las Vegas because once you get past Barstow, the terrain looks just like Iraq and brings back memories…”<\/p>\n
Veteran’s Day is coming and word has it that Not So New Chris will be deploying soon.<\/p>\n
Not to cheat anyone out of a visual for today, here is a video that Not So New Chris made of today’s dive…<\/p>\n
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