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Thursday Mar 6, 2014 #
2 PM
Scuba Diving 1:54:00 [3]
(sick)
3 dive day
Dive 1 - King Cruiser Wreck - a car ferry that suspiously sank at end of life just before insurance ran out with no passengers or cars on it...vis was pretty average to poor compared to what I have been diving in. Apparently good for the site though. Descent on buoy line - was buddied with some Ukranine women who looked very uncomfortable/ had bad technique. She was taking loads of photos and wasn't paying much attention so I spent half my dive figuring out where she was. Loads of schooling snapper, massive jelly fish and a big Spanish mackerel was the highlights of and the morays living in the toilet bowls. My buddy ran low on air so dive was only 34 mins - probably all the extra swimming and bicycling kicking she was doing,
Dive 2 - anemone reef - fully submerged reef reasonably close to the wreck. Vis was still pretty average current was now pretty strong. Still buddied with Ukranine. Buoy line descent again. Buddy straight into the photos... I noticed she had tonnes if weights on hand was inflating her BCD heaps... There's a recipe for trouble... And a few minutes later while the group was gracefully drifting with current and buddy was over left shoulder I looked back after 10s to see where she was and. She was gone. Was like fuck. Started my 60s and began scanning, up, down, left, right, everywhere... Could not see her. 30-40s passd rest of the group unaware of my frantic search then I notice really high in hue water her swimming back down ... WTF... She later said a current took her up. I'm calling bs and that she over inflated drifted up abit air expanded and she shot up. Hope she didn't make surface... Not my issue. She the swam everywhere stupidly fast with even dive master asking her a few times to slow down... Sure enough she ran out of air super quickly and our dive was about 20 mins short again. She even had to use dive masters emergency on ascent! #rant - spent dive watching her closely again rather than the fish. Still managed to see a few things - nudie, yellow box fish, white eye moray and banded box shrimp
On the boat Divemaster spoke with her to try help her relax before third dive - don't know if rest of group was disappointed that our dive time had effectively been halved :( guess it's my punishment for diving when sick, incidentally not the most pleasant or smart move.
Dive 3 - Ukranine opts out! Yay - buddied with Dive master - Koh Bida Nok - night dive. Looking forward to this and sadly didn't see much. Vis was tonnes better but the torch I was given would be what a flat battery Tandy $10 special would look like vs a spike light. Luckily the Divemaster was rocking the spike light equivalent or so it felt so stayed glued to him. Loads of scorpion fish and shrimp, saw a shame faced crab was awesome, lots of morays too. Dive time 47 mins for planned 45 teehee. Sea was rough when we got up and long swim to boat. Used maybe 10 bar on tank in the alone.
Rough windy ride home - feeling really ill regretting diving today... Not diving with buddy other tha Emma now! Was very frustrating.
Dive 1 - King Cruiser Wreck - a car ferry that suspiously sank at end of life just before insurance ran out with no passengers or cars on it...vis was pretty average to poor compared to what I have been diving in. Apparently good for the site though. Descent on buoy line - was buddied with some Ukranine women who looked very uncomfortable/ had bad technique. She was taking loads of photos and wasn't paying much attention so I spent half my dive figuring out where she was. Loads of schooling snapper, massive jelly fish and a big Spanish mackerel was the highlights of and the morays living in the toilet bowls. My buddy ran low on air so dive was only 34 mins - probably all the extra swimming and bicycling kicking she was doing,
Dive 2 - anemone reef - fully submerged reef reasonably close to the wreck. Vis was still pretty average current was now pretty strong. Still buddied with Ukranine. Buoy line descent again. Buddy straight into the photos... I noticed she had tonnes if weights on hand was inflating her BCD heaps... There's a recipe for trouble... And a few minutes later while the group was gracefully drifting with current and buddy was over left shoulder I looked back after 10s to see where she was and. She was gone. Was like fuck. Started my 60s and began scanning, up, down, left, right, everywhere... Could not see her. 30-40s passd rest of the group unaware of my frantic search then I notice really high in hue water her swimming back down ... WTF... She later said a current took her up. I'm calling bs and that she over inflated drifted up abit air expanded and she shot up. Hope she didn't make surface... Not my issue. She the swam everywhere stupidly fast with even dive master asking her a few times to slow down... Sure enough she ran out of air super quickly and our dive was about 20 mins short again. She even had to use dive masters emergency on ascent! #rant - spent dive watching her closely again rather than the fish. Still managed to see a few things - nudie, yellow box fish, white eye moray and banded box shrimp
On the boat Divemaster spoke with her to try help her relax before third dive - don't know if rest of group was disappointed that our dive time had effectively been halved :( guess it's my punishment for diving when sick, incidentally not the most pleasant or smart move.
Dive 3 - Ukranine opts out! Yay - buddied with Dive master - Koh Bida Nok - night dive. Looking forward to this and sadly didn't see much. Vis was tonnes better but the torch I was given would be what a flat battery Tandy $10 special would look like vs a spike light. Luckily the Divemaster was rocking the spike light equivalent or so it felt so stayed glued to him. Loads of scorpion fish and shrimp, saw a shame faced crab was awesome, lots of morays too. Dive time 47 mins for planned 45 teehee. Sea was rough when we got up and long swim to boat. Used maybe 10 bar on tank in the alone.
Rough windy ride home - feeling really ill regretting diving today... Not diving with buddy other tha Emma now! Was very frustrating.