{"id":2377,"date":"2012-07-17T22:38:51","date_gmt":"2012-07-18T05:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/?p=2377"},"modified":"2013-12-10T19:12:25","modified_gmt":"2013-12-11T02:12:25","slug":"scuba-diving-albania-alitepelena-island-wall-reef","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/?p=2377","title":{"rendered":"SCUBA Diving Albania: Alitepelena Island, Wall Reef"},"content":{"rendered":"

July 13, 2012*<\/strong><\/p>\n

What a night!<\/p>\n

There was a big wind storm that knocked out power in all of Himara, effecting Porto Palermo, too.<\/p>\n

Waking up, I also accidentally brushed my teeth with sun tan lotion – the sun lotion and toothpaste are in identical looking containers, and both written in German.<\/p>\n

We were to do three dives today, all deep; we were super paranoid about having extended surface intervals – there are no decompression chambers in Albania, and the hospitals don’t know how to treat the bends.<\/p>\n

We had two tanks that were filled from the super compressor that we brought from Tirana.<\/p>\n

We tested the air, and actually this batch was much better; it had no petroleum taste to it at all.<\/p>\n

The fills were a little light, however.<\/p>\n

Albanian Boat Diving<\/p>\n

We hired two kids with a paddle boat to drop us off at our spot; we were to swim back to shore.<\/p>\n

Logged SCUBA Dive #417<\/p>\n

Dove with Idit<\/p>\n

Alitepelena Island, Wall Reef
\nHimara, Albania<\/p>\n

Air Source: Portable Super Compressor We Brought From Tirana
\nIn With: 2500 psi
\nOut With: 200 psi
\nMax depth: 97 feet
\nWaves: Flat
\nVisibility: Up to 50 feet
\nWater Temperature: 75 degrees
\nAir Temperature: 89 degrees
\nTotal Bottom Time: 40 minutes or so<\/p>\n

We jumped off the boat, thanked the kids, and descended.<\/p>\n

I looked at my computer.<\/p>\n

It wasn’t on, and wouldn’t turn on underwater; I surfaced to fix the issue.<\/p>\n

The wall reef gets deep, really quickly.<\/p>\n

porto palermo<\/p>\n

porto palermo<\/p>\n

porto palermo<\/p>\n

We found what was left of a Roman or Greek wine vessel, from an ancient ship wreck – all the whole ones have been looted.<\/p>\n

It was a nice, pleasurable and uneventful dive.<\/p>\n

A boat anchor made out of a rock.<\/p>\n

A boat anchor made out of a rock.<\/p>\n

We made it back to shore with barely any air and made an easy exit.<\/p>\n

The bar at the beach.<\/p>\n

We debriefed at the bar at the beach, before taking a short tour of the Ali Pasha Tepelena Castle…<\/p>\n

The castle was a gift to one of Ali Pasha’s wives, and I believe, dates back to the 19th century.<\/p>\n

Ali Pasha Tepelena Castle.<\/p>\n

Ali Pasha Tepelena Castle.<\/p>\n

Me on Ali Pasha Tepelena Castle.<\/p>\n

Our next dive site was on the other side of the bay.<\/p>\n


\n*Due to time constraints, lack of reliable internet access outside of Tirana, power outages in Tirana and the strength of Albanian beer, posting of this article has been delayed.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

July 13, 2012* What a night! There was a big wind storm that knocked out power in all of Himara, effecting Porto Palermo, too. Waking up, I also accidentally brushed my teeth with sun tan lotion – the sun lotion and toothpaste are in identical looking containers, and both written in German. We were to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,14,34,9,3,31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2377"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2377"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2925,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2377\/revisions\/2925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}