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Dive Logs for Vance Stevens PADI open water scuba instructor #64181 Dive 367-368 November 30, 2000 Musandam, ADSAC Dhow Trip

Diving with: ADSAC
Dive sites: Musandam Liwa Headland and site opposite camping bay
Dive buddy: Wendy
Others in dive party: ADSAC divers
Conditions: mild
Water Temp: 24 C
Visibility: 5, 6, 7 meters
Wetsuit combo: typhoon top and thick farmer johns
Weight: 8 kg
Diving from: Dhow

Training conducted: none

Dive 367

Data from dive computer:

Time started down: 11:49
Max depth: 22.7 meters
Time started up from chart: chart not available
Dive time from computer: 00:39
Min Temp: 24 degrees C
Nitrox 21% (normal air), no deco

PSI/Bar in: 210 bar
PSI/Bar out: 50+ bar
Pressure group out: using computer, did not calculate

chart not available, computer apparently stores only a limited number of detailed records

Description of dive:

Bobbi and Dusty both feeling tired / unwell, so I was teamed with Wendy, a fairly competent beginning diver with about 20-30 dives to her credit. Unfortunately, right off the boat, she dropped her weight belt. Another was lowered over the gunwales but was too light for her, so I put it on. Now way to hand it back up. No way to just lower a few weights either, so another belt was handed down, which she accepted. We dropped straight down to see if we could find her belt, and there it was, but what to do with it? I decided to just put that on too. I compensated by blowing up my bcd so much I couldn't move my head around and I could feel the drag as I finned. Nevertheless, most of the dive went well. We moved from well inside the headland and rounded the point, where the big fish were hanging out, including a large school of large barracuda. The people in the first wave had seen sharks, turtles, rays, and the same barracuda, but only the barracuda had waited around for subsequent waves. At the end of the dive, Wendy got light on surfacing and I tried to hand her back one of the weight belts. She wasn't comfortable with it and seemed to either be handing it back or wanting me to relieve some of its weight. In any event, we swam a bit each having one end of the belt, but that was awkward, and Wendy's buoyancy soon got out of control and she surfaced prematurely, ending the dive.

Too bad about the weight problems, but it was in fact a nice dive, and for me probably the best of the weekend.

Surface interval: 2:50 according to dive computer
Pressure group in: diving from computer, did not calculate, but should be an A

Dive 368

Data from dive computer:

Time started down: 15:20
Max depth: 25.6 meters
Time started up from chart: chart not available
Dive time from computer: 00:45
Min Temp: 24 degrees C
Nitrox 21% (normal air), no deco

PSI/Bar in: 200 bar
PSI/Bar out: 50+ bar
Pressure group out: using computer, did not calculate

chart not available, computer apparently stores only a limited number of detailed records

Description of dive:

Don't remember this to be a particularly stimulating dive. We started at the down mid-wall and worked our way into a cove. One thing I do remember is chasing clown fish into a sea anemone. One clown let himself be swallowed up in the anemone while another one then could not gain entrance due to obstruction from the hidden partner. The really interesting thing was when I touched the anemone, it completely shriveled, still encompassing the shy clownfish. Later in the dive we saw a ray without a tail, seen by all the divers, and a friendly one. He rippled his skirts right up over my outstretched hand and he moved off the sand bottom, very soft to touch.

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