Uwe would like to congratulate Mike J. and Neil P. for their successful completion of Advanced Nitrox and Decompression Procedures from TDI. The guys started their training in early Sept, with two days of intense skills dives. Their training was put off a couple of weeks due to some ear problems and equipment problems at the shop.
Deco Dive 1, was out on the HMCS CHAUDIERE which is an exellent training platform as it is easy to get depth fast, and also have an easy ascent line for the deco stops. We enjoyed a nice swim through up through the operations room, into the bridge and out through the lower point on the bridge deckhead.
Overall the dive plan was 150 for 20, and the final stop was 8 at 20 feet. Nothing like a gas switching computer!!
Deco Dive 2 was completed today at the Tuwanek Abyss…the water temp is cooling and visibility was pretty short in the top 10 feet. Once we broke through the top layer, the visibilty opened up to easily 100 feet, and crystal clear. We slide down the sand with the wall tight on our right….the wall had some nice chimney sponges on the wall. We used V planner for the first time on the dive, though a bit different then the Deco Planner we normally use, it certainly has some great potential…so more investigation is needed.
Once again, congrates, and thank you to Suncoast Diving!!
Posted 1 year, 10 months ago at 5:35 am. Add a comment
Uw Explorers is excited to congratulate Chelsea D on completing her Advanced Openwater Course. Her training was conducted over a month, with her Deep dive and Wreck dive being done on the HMCS CHAUDIERE. Her Underwater Navigation, Naturalist and Night dive was conducted at Tuwanek.
She did an excellent job with her training and is certainly a natural!! We at Uw Explorers hope she will be back for more diving and training!!
Posted 1 year, 10 months ago at 6:17 am. Add a comment
UWE has had the opportunity to update the Fishes section of the Marine Life of the Pacific Northwest. We have added the Lingcod, Plainfin Midshipman, and the Roughback Sculpin to the site. If you are interested be sure to stop by and take a look.
Posted 1 year, 10 months ago at 4:45 am. Add a comment
Uw Explorers once again was up to 9 mile point with some fun divers. THe visibility was amazing and clear, and the water is getting that cold winter feel to it. There was tons of bull kelp up and the marine life as abundent as always.
Our female octopus is still holding on…though she is looking pretty weak and I would say she is not going to hang on much longer. Much to my surprise in about 30 feet of water I ran into a nice size Lingcod who was a willing model for some pictures. I also had a chance to take some pictures of a Red Dendronotid.
Overall another good dive up Sechelt Inlet!!
Posted 1 year, 11 months ago at 5:06 am. Add a comment
UWE is excited to announce their very own Desktop wallpaper! If you would like a copy of it…you can find it at the downloads section of UWE.
Posted 1 year, 11 months ago at 4:17 am. Add a comment
Uw Explorers wants to send out our congratulations to Jeremy Chesworth on completing the Advanced Nitrox and Decompression procedures course yesterday! We planned to challenge Jeremy with a dive to 170fsw off 9 mile point.
Monday night had everyone hard at work preparing decompression mixes for the dive, while some prepared the decompression schedule for the dive. Once completed we broke for the evening with the agreement to meet early the next day so we could get everything together and out to the dive site.
Once on site, we preped and rolled into the water….did our bubble checks…and then started our descent. As we dropped through the 50 foot mark we could tell there was a bit of a current. So our intial swim was going to be a but harder then expected but there were no problems as we finally arrived at the scar that leads to the deep drop off! Visiblity was at least 150 feet, and water temps were still good for decompression!!
Overall it was a great dive…interested in becoming a Tec Diver…be sure to check our courses tab right here at the website!!
Posted 1 year, 11 months ago at 2:57 am. Add a comment
