I was invited to go dive the Palawan wreck with a bunch of technical divers.<\/p>\n
I was the last person to show up at the dock, 20 minutes before the boat was scheduled to
\nleave.<\/p>\n
Even though I didn’t hold the boat up much, I was still given shit for “being the last to show up.”<\/p>\n
When I told Dry Suit Greg that I was on the boat, he was relieved that he didn’t have to take his doubles – he would dive with me, following recreational dive limits.<\/p>\n
I’ve often thought about becoming a technical diver – however, some consider solo diving “Technical” – but I’ve been told constantly, why spend $10,000 dollars to go from 130 feet to 300+?<\/p>\n
Regardless, aside from Greg and I, everyone else was going to do a 30 or so minute dive and decompress gradually come up – not to be confused with non-decompression recreational diving, which simply requires a “safety stop.” <\/p>\n
Hey, my budget is a constraint, but more power to the techies!<\/p>\n
I bought a new underwater camera, and decided to go balls out – a Fujifilm 3D digital still and video camera.<\/p>\n
This was it’s test run; I was scared shitless that the casing would leak.<\/p>\n
As Greg and I were were doing recreational limits, for us to do two dives at 120 feet, we would require almost an hour on the surface between dives.<\/p>\n
I was planning to do my first dive with just the case, to test for leaks.<\/p>\n
However, with our long surface interval, the tech divers would be back before our second dive began – so, a second dive was in question.<\/p>\n
I greased the seals of the case and said, “Fuck it!”<\/p>\n
I was the first one off the boat, Dry Suit Greg followed.<\/p>\n
Logged SCUBA Dive #394<\/p>\n
Dove with Dry Suit Greg
\nThe Palawan Wreck, Redondo Beach, CA<\/p>\n
In With: 3000 psi
\nOut With: 1200 psi
\nMax depth: 120 feet
\nWaves: Choppy
\nVisibility: 30 to 40 feet
\nWater Temperature: 53 degrees
\nAir Temperature: 72 degrees
\nTotal Bottom Time: 14 minutes bottom time, 35 minutes total<\/p>\n
We descended down the anchor line and went North to the Palawan.<\/p>\n
My automatic inflator on my BCD doesn’t work, so my “trim” wasn’t at it’s best.<\/p>\n
Dry Suit Greg later remarked, “Man, I wondered who I was diving with.”<\/p>\n
Yeah, my buoyancy wasn’t that great with no air in my BCD at 100 or so feet, however, I didn’t feel the need to orally inflate it.<\/p>\n
We had rain and some pretty tall waves last night, and I was surprised the visibility was absolutely spectacular.<\/p>\n
And, wearing my core warmer, I didn’t feel that cold, which probably kept me from getting narced. <\/p>\n
The Palawan is a wreck that I doubt I will ever get bored of – it is encrusted with sea life, there’s many swim throughs, with easy outs, if need be.<\/p>\n
Lots of fish and lots to see – wait for the video which should be on the next post.<\/p>\n
I followed Greg, took some test video with my new camera, and followed him back up the anchor line to a good safety stop.<\/p>\n
My camera casing did not leak.<\/p>\n
The tech divers were still down.<\/p>\n
Will we do another dive?<\/p>\n
Stay tuned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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