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Are you Prepared??

This is from a poster that was created by the famous Cave Explorer Sheck Exley;

Sheck Exley

Before the Dive, What if…;

• The gas company put the wrong gas in the cylinders you fill from?
• The wrong grade of helium is in them?
• THere are impurities in the gas?
• You miscalculate your mixtures and have too much oxygen?
• Too little oxygen?
• Too much Nitrogen?
• Too much Helium?
• The for mixing is wrong?
• The filling temperatures are different?
• The dive shop filling your tanks allows the gas to bleed back into their bank system?
• Your cylinders contain flammable materials and you put in pure oxygen?
• The dive shop tops your deep tanks with bad air?
• A pinhole leak allows the helium to leak but other gases remain?
• Your get the cylinders mixed up while filling?

One the Descent, What if…;

• You do not have enough oxygen when you submerge?
• Your depth gauge reads shallow?
• A tank you thought had trimix was really nitrox, etc?
• You over breath your regulator?
• You have a delay before ascending?
• You have a delay on the way down?
• You have to exert a lot on the bottom?
• You have a five minute line entanglement etc, on the bottom?
• You lose your dive partner on the bottom?
• You get blown from the dive site?
• You lose your mask?

During Decompression, What if…;

• The decompression tables you have don’t work?
• You lose your decompression tables?
• You lose your watch?
• You lose your depth gauge?
• You run out of decompression gas?
• You drop one of your decompression cylinders?
• Some steals on of your decompression cylinders?
• Your decompression cylinders have leaked?
• You are delayed at a decompression stop?
• Danger from hazardous marine life keeps you from completing your decompression?
• Your drysuit floods?
• You get hypothermia?
• You get the bends

These are all the situations one should think of when Technical Diving…and be sure you can accept the risks!! Otherwise do not do it!!

Diving Presentation – Baja

UW Explorers were asked to give a video presentation of Diving in the Sea of Cortez.  So, we got hard at it…and then decided to make a comparison in some of the declarations which were made by Jacque Cousteau.   He had made reference to the Sea of Cortez and what a premier dive areas, as he had concerning Scuba Diving in the Pacific Northwest.  So we not only did made a presentation for the Sea of Cortez, we put together one of my favourite dives I have in the Pacific Northwest.  We hope you enjoy!!

If you enjoy this movie, please feel free to download it from this link.  HMCS CHAUDIERE (116)

Los Morros del Norte

Guitar Ray

UWE was out diving with Vista Sea Sport again today, dive leading for Dave and Dean, another awesome day down in Cabo Pulmo.  Our first dive was at Los Morros del Norte, where we rolled in at the northern part of the reef and enjoyed a nice drift south.  As we descended in the 75 degree water we could tell the visibility was going to be a little short today, in around 30 feet and cloudy.  The normal sounds of open circuit scuba diving was replaced with the sounds of whales talk to one another, it was amazing to dive to.  There was plenty of schooling fish, an we came across a couple of nice guitar rays hiding in the crack and crevasses.

Dive two had us heading a little further south El Bajo de los Morros where en route we were entertained with a couple of whale encounters and a whale breaching which was just way to cool.

Taken by Dave and Dean

The second dive went off with out a hitch though I  do not think it was good as the first one.  The land scape was lovely and there were many cracks and crevasses to swim through.  Once again there was many schools of tropical fish, the ever plentiful Balloon, and some very large groupers.  Overall it was a great dive out with Vista Sea Sport, as well Dave and Dean who were the guest divers on board the boats today! Great diving with you guys!!  We will be headed back out for another great day of diving tomorrow…so don’t miss out!!

The Drowning Woman

Jo Harrison Modern Body Art

Jo Harrison from Modern Body Art in the UK is vacationing down here in the Baja currently and our paths happened to cross.  It turns out, I was looking to get a couple of Tattoos done, and she was looking to get some video or pictures done to help in her drawings for the tattoo she is working on for Matt.  Thus The Drowning Woman was begun.

So Jo, Matt Susanne and I (UWE) headed out into the Sea of Cortez today in order to get some footage of what was to appear like a woman who has just drowned…and she is floating out into the depths….arms out stretched resigned to her fate.  Susanne was on the bottom with Jo with a regulator ready for her when it was needed, and it was on a 7 foot hose so there was plenty to play with if needed.  Matt was snorkeling on the surface passing along advice for angles for the shoot…and Jo was the model.

We are working on a short movie explaining everything Jo and Matt are hoping to achieve….so stay tuned that will hopefully be out to view in the next few days.  I do have a couple of awesome images of Jo doing her thing….I hope you enjoy!!