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Decompressions Course Complete

Yesterday had us out at the Power Lines in the Sechelt Inlet to complete Vassili’s Deco course. The dive plan was for 150 for 20 minutes. Everything went off without a hitch and what an amazing dive we had!! The Glass Sponges were huge in the 150 to 190 foot range, with visibility being close to 100 feet.

So, six dives later, and Vassili has completed his Tec Intro training!! Well done….who will be next? Interested in training in Tec Diving, be sure to contact me through here, or at Suncoast Diving.

Weekend of Taining

This past weekend was spent training with Suncoast Diving. We were working on the PADI Advanced Diver’s course along with PADI Nitrox, and TDI Nitrox. We had three students, Rebbecca, Heather and Jeremy. Day one was spent in the classroom doing the knowledge reviews for both courses. Friday afternoon had the class out in Coopers Green working on their PPB and Nav dives. Both Friday and Saturday were late nights as we pushed to get all requirements done in such a short time.

Day two, had us headed out to the HMCS Chaudiere for the Deep and Wreck dive requirements. I am happy to report that the visibility is improving and currently it is in the 30 – 40 foot range. As always it is nice to visit the Chaudiere and see all the changes she is under going. There certainly is a lot of life on her this year, and that is very nice to see. Upon returning to the shop, we finished the PADI and TDI Nitrox training and all students were successful!! Congrates to all.

Day three, had us down one student as Rebbecca had to work, and was not able to dive that day, but Jeremy and Heather headed up the inlet with use to dive the Power Lines and Zoonie Narrows. The weather was great, the diving great….and the students were able to complete all training as planned!! All in all, another great weekend…..thanks to Suncoast Diving!

New Download Additions

OMG, I finally found software to use on my new Intel Macbook, so I can download my dives from my Suunto Vytec DS. I first loaded the software parallel desktop, and though the install of dive manager 2 seemed fine, it somehow assaulted my senses that I still was tied to the Windows program. But, finally I have done it. So take a look for MacDive and the USB drivers for the usb suunto cable in our downloads section on the site.

Decompression Course

We completed dive number 5 yesterday with Vassili. We worked out our dive tables, gas requirements, printed off tables and headed back out to the HMCS Chaudiere for the dive. The dive plan was to head down the 70 foot line and work our way forward under the Chaud in the 150 foot region.

The plan soundeds, good….but sadly mother nature had different plans. Once we arrived at the mooring line and tied up the boat, we suited up and completed all our pre-dive checks. Things where going great, we had our deco bottles attached and set bubble checks completed, and off we went. I was very opptimistic that this was going t be a great dive, as the Chaudiere loomed in the distances and was visible from the 36 foot mark. However, as I made my away off the line and dropped past the ship, it became very obvious that the visibility past the 100 foot mark was almost zero and zero. Checking my computer I say I was passing the 135foot mark and the bottom at 145 – 150 was still not visible. Our plan called for us remaining visiual with the wreck so we would not have any difficulty using the mooring line for our deco ascent. This was not possibile so we ended up shallowing up the dive, in order to regain visual with wreck. Once this was sorted out, we did a mild penetration up forward where we entered a cut out, traversed a passage way and headed out the hatch up forward on the Foc’sle. Once we exited there, we headed aft remaining deep on the port side and slid under the wreck and headed towards the keel, were we ascended on time to our first deco stop at 60 feet for 2 minutes. Vassili did a great job, and big BZ to Sam for helping and being my Technical Dive Master!!

May Long Weekend

[SinglePic not found]The May long weekend was a long one for sure for Suncoast Diving and Uw Explorers. Friday we spent the day out on the inlet, with 4 Marine Biologists doing a collection of various types of Sea Weeds etc. So Sam and I stayed dry and made sure that everyone had not difficulties with dressing and getting into the water to get there specimens.

Saturday we were back on the water for another day with the Marine Biologists and two fun divers. Dive one was on the Power Lines and from all accounts things were fantastic. So, suspect that is where we will be doing Vas’s last Decompression Training dive.

Sunday, was a tad bit slower with two fun divers, and just one dive on the HMCS Chaudiere. All in all it was a great weekend…lots of great sun, good diving, and time on the boat!!

New Downloads

UWE, has added 4 more downloads for everyone to try out. You will find some new fill charts from the DIR web site, as well I lucked out and found the entire US Navy Dive Manual Rev 5 and have added it to the downloads section.

Get in there and download away.