Bottom Time to Date: 3:00<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nOriginal buddy decided he could do this dive, took him forever to get his skills all dealt with while I both waited on the surface and by the anchor underwater.\u00a0 Visibility was much worse at the beginning of this tour, and Instructor making it clear to buddy up with her.\u00a0 We saw a couple giant crab, along with every starfish ever.\u00a0 I checked my depth when I started feeling cold and was at 29′.\u00a0 On our way back Original buddy started becoming too buoyant and rising over us.\u00a0 We eventually surfaced when he couldn’t get it under control, and then decided to head back down for the swim back to shore.\u00a0 Instructor gave me a bearing to follow since we had no anchor and visibility had become shit again, in case we got separated.<\/p>\n
Got separated we did!\u00a0 Apparently my aluminum tank made it hard for me to get back under once half-empty.\u00a0 They descended without a problem and I sat struggling at the top until I forced my way under the water and then kicked myself deeper until I could control things again.\u00a0 I followed the bearing at a slightly faster than casual pace, not wanting to have them possibly waiting on me at shore.\u00a0 It was fun riding the surge with a single little frog kick and I eventually found myself in a school of probably a couple hundred really tiny fish.\u00a0 They swam off about as soon as I noticed them.<\/p>\n
I swam to about 5′ before surfacing and then stood and watched for them while riding the swell.\u00a0 Turned out that they realized the aluminum was probably throwing me off, and went to surface, but by that time I had already forced myself under and gone on my merry way.<\/p>\n
And now I’m certified to use a drysuit, which is perfect because Jenny and I have our first dive together scheduled for next week!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
2012.06.16, 09:14 – Drysuit Dive #1 Breakwater (pipe), Monterey, CA Buddy: Instructor Computer: Oceanic Veo 2.0 (wrist mount) Weight: 28Lbs Water Temperature: 53.1\u00b0F Beginning Pressure Group: n\/a Max Depth: 44′ (Profile) Bottom Time: 0:29 Ending Pressure Group: I Bottom Time to Date: 2:24 Started off rocky with my original buddy, who couldn’t descend properly for … <\/p>\n
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![Profile<\/a>)<\/li>\nBottom Time: 0:29<\/li>\nEnding Pressure Group: I<\/li>\nBottom Time to Date: 2:24<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nStarted off rocky with my original buddy, who couldn’t descend properly for a host of reasons I’m sure he feels like he can explain rationally.\u00a0 Eventually Instructor grew frustrated enough to have me go to the bottom and do fin pivots and hovering, and we went back to shore.\u00a0 The 15 minutes it took before we went back to shore I’m not quite counting in all my diving crap, though I merged the profiles together.<\/p>\nThen Instructor and I went back out, I took my BCD off and put it back on quick, and we went for a tour along the pipe by ourselves.\u00a0 Saw a crapton of starfish and sun starfish, a decorator crab, and I think a shrimp.\u00a0 Visibility cleared up once we got away from the anchor and I discovered I started getting cold at almost exactly 30′ in my drysuit.<\/p>\n2012.06.16, 12:25 – Drysuit Dive #2<\/h4>\nBreakwater, Monterey, CA<\/strong><\/p>\n\nSurface Interval: 1:33<\/li>\nWeight: 26Lbs<\/li>\nWater Temperature: 50\u00b0F<\/li>\nBeginning Pressure Group: B<\/li>\nMax Depth: 43′ (Profile<\/a>)<\/li>\nBottom Time: 0:36<\/li>\nEnding Pressure Group: P<\/li>\nBottom Time to Date: 3:00<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nOriginal buddy decided he could do this dive, took him forever to get his skills all dealt with while I both waited on the surface and by the anchor underwater.\u00a0 Visibility was much worse at the beginning of this tour, and Instructor making it clear to buddy up with her.\u00a0 We saw a couple giant crab, along with every starfish ever.\u00a0 I checked my depth when I started feeling cold and was at 29′.\u00a0 On our way back Original buddy started becoming too buoyant and rising over us.\u00a0 We eventually surfaced when he couldn’t get it under control, and then decided to head back down for the swim back to shore.\u00a0 Instructor gave me a bearing to follow since we had no anchor and visibility had become 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![Profile<\/a>)<\/li>\nBottom Time: 0:36<\/li>\nEnding Pressure Group: P<\/li>\nBottom Time to Date: 3:00<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nOriginal buddy decided he could do this dive, took him forever to get his skills all dealt with while I both waited on the surface and by the anchor underwater.\u00a0 Visibility was much worse at the beginning of this tour, and Instructor making it clear to buddy up with her.\u00a0 We saw a couple giant crab, along with every starfish ever.\u00a0 I checked my depth when I started feeling cold and was at 29′.\u00a0 On our way back Original buddy started becoming too buoyant and rising over us.\u00a0 We eventually surfaced when he couldn’t get it under control, and then decided to head back down for the swim back to shore.\u00a0 Instructor gave me a bearing to follow since we had no anchor and visibility had become shit again, in case we got separated.<\/p>\nGot separated we did!\u00a0 Apparently my aluminum tank made it hard for me to get back under once half-empty.\u00a0 They descended without a problem and I sat struggling at the top until I forced my way under the water and then kicked myself deeper until I could control things again.\u00a0 I followed the bearing at a slightly faster than casual pace, not wanting to have them possibly waiting on me at shore.\u00a0 It was fun riding the surge with a single little frog kick and I eventually found myself in a school of probably a couple hundred really tiny fish.\u00a0 They swam off about as soon as I noticed them.<\/p>\nI swam to about 5′ before surfacing and then stood and watched for them while riding the swell.\u00a0 Turned out that they realized the aluminum was probably throwing me off, and went to surface, but by that time I had already forced myself under and gone on my merry way.<\/p>\nAnd now I’m certified to use a drysuit, which is perfect because Jenny and I have our first dive together scheduled for next week!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2012.06.16, 09:14 – Drysuit Dive #1 Breakwater (pipe), Monterey, CA Buddy: Instructor Computer: Oceanic Veo 2.0 (wrist mount) Weight: 28Lbs Water Temperature: 53.1\u00b0F Beginning Pressure Group: n\/a Max Depth: 44′ (Profile) Bottom Time: 0:29 Ending Pressure Group: I Bottom Time to Date: 2:24 Started off rocky with my original buddy, who couldn’t descend properly for … <\/p>\nContinue reading “Drysuit certification!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,70],"tags":[68,67,78],"class_list":["post-2329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun-stuffs","category-scuba-diving","tag-pacific","tag-padi","tag-scuba-diving"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pyyGP-Bz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/awesomelymodest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/awesomelymodest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/awesomelymodest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomelymodest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomelymodest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2329"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/awesomelymodest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2336,"href":"https:\/\/awesomelymodest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2329\/revisions\/2336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/awesomelymodest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomelymodest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomelymodest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"http:\/\/awesomelymodest.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/2012.06.16-dive2.jpg\"){kind=link}