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Posted by Tut on 02/20/02

Deep dive, & pics, (I hope)  +

Sat 2nd

Deep Dive;
Well it's off for my last dive in the AOW.  I'm diving with Kevin who needs a deep dive also for his AOW. So on the way to Santa Rosa Wall Mark goes over what we will be doing and how he will be checking us for "narked" when we get between 90 & 100 ft. and that he will check us a number of times til we're back up to 50 or 60 ft.. OK.
Over the side and down we go, I'll never get over the view. Kevin & I are down to 90ft within a minute, then it's off over the reef, man I love this, what correl heads and all the sea life around me, wahoo, now we are at 100ft, Mark checks our eyes, does the 2,3,1 thing, I must of answered right cause he give us both the OK and down through a swim through we go.

holy buckets, was that ever neat, hey, I'm out on the Wall, Sh- -! What another view, now we are at 120 ft. Mark checks us again, another OK, and off over some more Heads and back through another swim through, this time I come out on the wall and Mark is drifting off into the dark blue


what a sight, arms folded and he just floats away, only a few yards, then back to check us one more time, then I look at my gauge, 140ft. Holy moly, you got to be kidding me, it really didn't hit me til I looked up the wall, it went on for ever, I'm loving this stuff to much, then we start the slow swim up over the correl past sand flows, I see my first sand Shark, 2 of them under some correl, can't get the camera out in time we drift on by, damn, that was neat we're up to 80 ft now, everything is going good. 60 ft 40 ft. stop at 20ft for 6 minutes, computer just into the yellow, we hand there for 5 minutes, then Mark comes over and want me to take his secondary and finish the surface with it. When I asked him why, I still had just under 500lbs, he said he wanted to see if I would panic, I guess I didn't and that's all he wanted to know.
This to date was the best of the best, never in my wildest dreams did I ever think I would be down at 140 ft. and the swim though, well those of you that have you know, but for those of you that haven't, you got to do it, it is so cool.
Time for a little SI then off to the wreck, what a day of diving.

Sat the 2/02/02 2nd dive "The Wreck"

After a nice rest on the beach at "Nachi-Cocom beach club" we are off the to Old C-53 and another 1st, of course, everything I do here is a 1st, Da,. Mark ask Kevin and I if we have read the AOW on wreck diving, which we both had, and then he goes over the many points about wreck diving, especially the C-53. He tells us we will be going down a line, the one the boat will tie up to. Again another 1st. The line will be tied off at the bow end of the ship and that we will enter one of the many hatches in the bow.
Over we go, current is strong here today, had to work a little to get over to the down line, up made it. Down we go, what a view, you can see the full length of the ship, lying there like a big ghost or something, Wow! We make it down the line and into the ship we go. I'm carrying a small light so I turn it on just to see all that there is to see. We make our way toward the mid section of the ship, down a few stairs and into a good size room full of these little fish, "help with the name here"


then on into more rooms and then we swim by this large man window and we swim out and down to the bottom of the ship and there under it's exposed bottom are all these damn Lobsters


must of been 20 + under there, another Wow! Then back inside and on toward the Stern, when Mark points us into this little room as I turn myself around, there he is, setting on the Bono, when a guy has got to go, he's got to go


then we start heading back to the Bow as we go pass the big window, there is this Big Barracuda swimming by,


so after I take a shot of him I've got to have one more look out the "port hole" to see what else it out there that I've missed

..just Mark with my camera and a whole lot of blue beautiful blue, ...."you just got to lov this sprot"...anyway, time is running out so back to the bow up the line to 20ft and our SS. The current has really picked up now, I'm holding the line and my legs and fins our straight out behind me, what a ride.
We're up and out and this has been one hell of a day of diving for this Old Cat, can't wait and tell mother that all this equipment worked to a "T" and I was safe as I could be, so the investment was worth ever dime. Te he he.

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