Mailing List Archive Mailing List Archive
Divers- On Saturday we had another VBTech meeting. We started off talking about the upcoming dive season and reviewed and planned tech trips coming up. Big news is all the new big dive boats for our area (Virginia Beach, VA). 1. Sea Fever, a 90' cabin-class dive boat will be coming up here in June. See: http://www.sea fever.com to take a look at the boat. Sea Fever will be chartered out of Lynnhaven Dive (757-481-7949). 2. Flying Fish, a 60' crew boat will be active around the end of January. Jay and Adonis will be doing tech trips, but there is no compressor at the moment. 3. Miss Lindsey is getting a new muffler system, so you can leave your ear plugs behind (we hope) it should be ready in Feb. Virginia Beach, Va. is really becoming a hotbed of tech activity, and this is no surprise considering how many world class tech dives there are in the area. We were presented with Ken Claytons dive schedule. Ken is planning on doing some tech charters a little less extreme then what we are used to hearing him do, so contact Lynnhaven for details. We discussed Capt. JT Barkers planned trip to the Ostfriesland and Frankford in June, this should be quite a trip, 4 straight days of tech diving off the Miss Lindsey. There is a planned trip to Lake Rawlings to brush up on technique and fine-tune gear so we can spend our ocean dives diving and not messing with gear problems. After this there was a show and tell of dive knifes and placement and a technique of using a bicycle innertube to attach a Remora knife to the belt of a harness was shown. Then a discussion of different types of lift bags followed with discussion of different types and styles. For the fun part a demonstration of how easy it is to break a zip tie followed with instruction of using wreck reel line to attach gear by "guess who". A certain amount of healthy discussion ensued. But, hey, when you're right, you're right, right? The topic of O2 narcosis came up with some examples of functionality problems on divers on a nitrox vs. air taken from a recent dive trip. I was pretty much the consensus that O2 has at least as much narcosis potential as nitrogen. Finally we watched an interesting tape of 6 years of diving on the Skyclift, a large freighter sunk as an artificial reef off of Southern Florida. All of us were amazed at how easy it is to dive deep in crystal clear, blood warm waters. While the wreck was at a bottom depth of 200', most of the divers were using single tanks and pony's. I think all of us in the room were picturing the same wreck in our conditions, i.e. 5-10' vis, 48F water temps, 15 hour boat ride and clouds of fishing nets and buoys all over the place. Man, those S.Fla boys sure have some cake diving going on down there... Until next month- Jim ------------------------------------------------------------------- Learn About Trimix at http://www.cisatlantic.com/trimix/trimix.html -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
Navigate by Author:
[Previous]
[Next]
[Author Search Index]
Navigate by Subject:
[Previous]
[Next]
[Subject Search Index]
[Send Reply] [Send Message with New Topic]
[Search Selection] [Mailing List Home] [Home]