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logs for Vance Stevens, P.A.D.I. Open Water SCUBA Instructor #64181
Straits of Hormuz, May
12, 2000
Dives 343 and 344 previous page | next page
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Diving with: Scuba International from the
Oceanic Dive buddies: Bobbi and Dusty Others at site: Anita .. |
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Sea condition: mild |
Water temp: 25/24 |
Visibility: 9-10 meters |
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Wetsuit combo: warm with farmer john and 3 mm longsleeve top; 2nd dive wore lycra skin in lieu of longjohn |
Weight: needed 12 kg 1st, 8 2nd |
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Data from dive computer:
Dive 343 – 35.6 meters, 30 min. (Dive time
includes 3 min. safety stop) = http://www.vancestevens.com/divelogs/dtrak343.jpg
Surface interval – 2:21
Dive 344 – 34.5 meters, 25 min. (Dive time
includes 3 min. safety stop) = http://www.vancestevens.com/divelogs/dtrak344.jpg
Despite the fact that we dropped in first
dive on top of a resting leopard shark, the two dives we did here were
disappointing. We were hemmed in by
currents, and I was diving on my computer, going a bit deep and chasing the
time remaining, with the result that dives were short, and there was not enough
time for the pretty fish near the surface.
Vis seemed not too good, and it was dark at depth. At Thuwaqr Island we were hemmed in about
100 meters of reef face, and going beyond that we’d be swept out to sea. At White Rock, Bobbi and Dusty took too much
time getting in the water and the boat drifted far from the site. The boatman was not competent enough to see
the predicament we would be in when we entered the water and were carried by
the current to make no progress toward the entry zone. He eventually revved the engines and tried
to drag us nearer but we succeeded in picking up one other drifting diver. We had to reboard the boat and reenter the
water by the rock where the others had been waiting 20 min, but confidence in
this operation was a bit compromised, and the dive itself was again one hemmed
in by currents. We cut our hands on the
animals in the coral as we had to hang on.
Al, first in, had seen a shark on entry, snorkeling, but it avoided all
divers. The only thing of note was a
huge school of a couple hundred bat fish.
One interesting thing was on the trip out, an
engine conked out. The Oceanic people
were about to call for another boat and I suppose take us diving to Liwa Rock
or some reduced venture, but Ali got on the phone and had Bimah at the Club paged,
and Bimah managed to talk Al through locating the thermostat that was sticking
and causing the siren warning. The
offending part was removed, and we resumed out day’s diving.
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