Diving today was not terribly distinctive, other than that I dove Ballbuster's for the first time. Also there was a barrage of sea jellies swimming towards us in the 20' depth range. At one point, a sea jelly attached itself to Kevin's head. While I was watching him removing the sea jelly, a sea jelly was about to collide into my face. I screamed pretty loudly in disgust as I tore its tendrils off my regulator.
On the second dive, we searched for a tank that got thrown off a few weeks back. Kevin got a reel and we did circle searches, with me keeping a 10'-15' distance on the outer perimeter. It was exhausting, kicking for 45 minutes straight. It was also a little eery, because the visibility was poor. Also, the lift bag obscured my view, and messed up my access to my dive computer and dive light. I kept losing my buddy, and I found floating 15' above the sandy bottom, barely visible, to be disorienting. We didn't end up finding the tank, unfortunately. On the plus side, it was fun to perform a search and recovery for the first time, and giving myself vertigo hovering over the sand so high up.
Dive #190: Ballbusters (Dive Buddy: Kevin Donovan)
Depth/Time: 100'/0:30 minutes (had 4 minutes of NDL left)
Visibility: 15' (hard to tell, because it was as dark as night)
Temperature: 50 deg F
Weights: 15 lbs (same as before except weights set to horizontal in BCD instead of vertical)
Dive #191: Buoy outside of Hopkins Marine Station (Dive Buddy: Kevin Donovan)
Depth/Time: 60'/0:50 minutes
Visibility: 10-15'
Temperature: 50 deg F
Weights: see above
On the second dive, we searched for a tank that got thrown off a few weeks back. Kevin got a reel and we did circle searches, with me keeping a 10'-15' distance on the outer perimeter. It was exhausting, kicking for 45 minutes straight. It was also a little eery, because the visibility was poor. Also, the lift bag obscured my view, and messed up my access to my dive computer and dive light. I kept losing my buddy, and I found floating 15' above the sandy bottom, barely visible, to be disorienting. We didn't end up finding the tank, unfortunately. On the plus side, it was fun to perform a search and recovery for the first time, and giving myself vertigo hovering over the sand so high up.
Dive #190: Ballbusters (Dive Buddy: Kevin Donovan)
Depth/Time: 100'/0:30 minutes (had 4 minutes of NDL left)
Visibility: 15' (hard to tell, because it was as dark as night)
Temperature: 50 deg F
Weights: 15 lbs (same as before except weights set to horizontal in BCD instead of vertical)
Dive #191: Buoy outside of Hopkins Marine Station (Dive Buddy: Kevin Donovan)
Depth/Time: 60'/0:50 minutes
Visibility: 10-15'
Temperature: 50 deg F
Weights: see above
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