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logs for Vance Stevens, P.A.D.I. Open Water SCUBA Instructor #64181
Abu Dhabi, March 31,
2000
Dives 335 and 336 previous page | next page
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Diving with: AB Divers Dive buddies: Ed Chaffin and Dave Propst Others at site: Ibrahim, one of the girls
who did the rescue course, the Nurse Balinda, others
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Sea condition: mild swell, some spray on way out |
Water temp: 21 |
Visibility: not too bad, 7 meters |
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Wetsuit combo: farmer john and 3 mm longsleeve top |
Weight: needed 12 kg |
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Data from dive computer:
Dive 335 – 25.6 meters for 30 min.
Surface interval: 1 hr. 25 min.
Dive 336 – 25.2 meters for 28 min
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Profile tracking chart |
Planned time |
Depth |
PG |
Actual time |
Depth |
PG |
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Pressure group in |
1st dive of day |
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Air in: 200 |
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Time at bottom (NDL) |
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20 min |
26 |
L |
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Safety stop if necessary |
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5 m |
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3 min. |
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Surface Interval |
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1 hr 30 min |
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Pressure group in |
B |
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Air in: 200 |
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Time at bottom (NDL) |
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20 min |
26 |
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Safety stop if necessary |
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5 m |
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3 min. |
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Air out: 80 |
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Training:
Wreck dive for Dave Propst.
These were a couple of pretty good
dives. The Jasim is just big enough to
get around in a 20 min dive, about 26 min being the NDL on a first dive at 26
meters, according to the wheel. It lies
N/S more or less with the bow to the north.
The bow is broken from the rest of the ship, so there is a gap in the
wreck that fooled me one time around so that I “circumnavigated” it
prematurely. There is a captain’s chair
north side of the bow that serves as a good landmark.
Dropping in there was a school of barracuda
with a big fish in it. I thought it was
a tuna. Ibrahim and his lady thought it was a jack, if it was the same fish.
Barracuda were rather large. Some big grouper down there, and big bat
fish. Lots of rays in the sand
including a nice leopard spotted one off the stern. Particularly many off the stern.
Schools of grey spotted snappers.
Others say a pair of sea snakes.
Really nice fish life.
Dave’s mask flooded on him on first descent
but, well trained as he was, didn’t phase him except that he got my attention
so I could tell him when to clear so he wouldn’t lose his contacts. Good instructor student rapport there, both
of us knowing exactly what to do to solve the problem, excellent presence of
mind on Dave’s part considering experience and depth in adverse
proportion. Dave also had no qualms
about going for alternate air on ascents, first time for spare tank hanging
over side, and second time on my octopus, which I thought showed excellent
presence, considering some would have just breathed down to the dregs and maybe
had a problem, though he wasn’t that low, just consuming air rapidly at depth.
Ibrahim did very well in finding the
wreck. Plugged coordinates into GPS in
dive shop before dive and gave me a lapse in confidence when we got there and
found no ADSAC dive boat as expected.
But he was right on it, and located it with depth sounder in a matter of
minutes. Hung the spare tank over the
side, ran a safe dive, even cautioned me about my idea to do some compass
navigation work on the dive, since we were outside standard depth (I’d not
checked) and it wouldn’t have been a good idea anyway.
Excellent diving and nice company made for a
great day out.
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