First dive at Nemo 33, Bruxelles.
You don't need an insulation suit, or any weights. The visibility is perfect and the environment is great for exercises. A dive takes around 40-50 minutes (max - in our case it was 27 minutes) and costs 22 Euros.
Dive data for the dive:
Time In: 12:24
Time Out: 12:51
Max Depth: 11.4m
Water temperature: high (no insulation suit needed)
Weights: none (no insulation suit, 12L steel)
Visibility: perfect
Air consumption (12L):
In: 180 BAR
Out: 100 BAR
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Tuesday, May 4
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Monday, July 21
Eventfull Saturday :(
Ogün and Abdullah died on our dive, on Saturday.
For me and S, it had started as a normal weekend; we had driven to the northern part of Cyprus, looking forward to a weekend in camping, some diving, and maybe a bit of sunbathing.
We arrived on the beach around eleven after hooking up with A, in a small village West of Kyrenia, waiting to get in the water.
An hour or so later, we had gotten our gear set up and were getting our gear on the boat, all eight of us. We were diving 'The Paradise', a dive-site for Advanced Open Water divers; The plan was to stay around 25 meters until we got to a pressure of minimum 100bars, then turn back, and go back to the starting point, on the current.
As I would find out later, fifteen minutes into the dive or so, one of the guys panicked and bolted to the surface, with the instructor and his diving buddy going after him.
I'm not sure what happened next; A. said that, by the time he got to the surface, the instructor was doing CPR on the guy and that at some point, he saw the other guy, dropping like a stone, towards the bottom. I understand the group leader went to the deep after him, with no bottom time left on his side (he ended up in the hyperbaric chamber for this, but I understand that he fully recovered).
On our side, at some point I noticed that there were only four of us left; I was completely narked, as were the other guys, so nothing seemed strange to me about it (I was watching S' depth control at the time :( ).
I made sure we started ascending properly, checked the safety-stop counter so we made our ascent by the book, then broke surface, to find that no-one was waiting for us at the exit point.
The guys' English was a bit broken, and I was still in the dive's afterglow, so it was some good minutes in the water until I understood that something bad had actually happened.
At first, I understood that someone had panicked and the instructor took him to the surface; then, I heard A. saying telling about two dead divers, and I thought he was telling us a story (it was too surreal to even understand that he was talking about the current dive).
Some minutes later, our dive leader surfaced; it turns out he went back down to finish his decompression -- I think. We started going towards the shore in a subdued mood.
As we neared the shore, I expected to see some guys asking questions, and maybe an ambulance or two.
Instead, we got on the shore to find the two bodies on the sand, covered in dark-blue towels, and people moving all around them.
We went on the shore, carried the equipment to the dive centre, thrn stood there an hour or so, not knowing what to do or say.
After that, we went with A on the harbor, walking and chatting this and that. My guess is, that we were trying to put some distance between what happened and us.
Ogün and Abdullah died on our dive, on Saturday.
I feel like writing something else, but nothing comes to mind :(
For me and S, it had started as a normal weekend; we had driven to the northern part of Cyprus, looking forward to a weekend in camping, some diving, and maybe a bit of sunbathing.
We arrived on the beach around eleven after hooking up with A, in a small village West of Kyrenia, waiting to get in the water.
An hour or so later, we had gotten our gear set up and were getting our gear on the boat, all eight of us. We were diving 'The Paradise', a dive-site for Advanced Open Water divers; The plan was to stay around 25 meters until we got to a pressure of minimum 100bars, then turn back, and go back to the starting point, on the current.
As I would find out later, fifteen minutes into the dive or so, one of the guys panicked and bolted to the surface, with the instructor and his diving buddy going after him.
I'm not sure what happened next; A. said that, by the time he got to the surface, the instructor was doing CPR on the guy and that at some point, he saw the other guy, dropping like a stone, towards the bottom. I understand the group leader went to the deep after him, with no bottom time left on his side (he ended up in the hyperbaric chamber for this, but I understand that he fully recovered).
On our side, at some point I noticed that there were only four of us left; I was completely narked, as were the other guys, so nothing seemed strange to me about it (I was watching S' depth control at the time :( ).
I made sure we started ascending properly, checked the safety-stop counter so we made our ascent by the book, then broke surface, to find that no-one was waiting for us at the exit point.
The guys' English was a bit broken, and I was still in the dive's afterglow, so it was some good minutes in the water until I understood that something bad had actually happened.
At first, I understood that someone had panicked and the instructor took him to the surface; then, I heard A. saying telling about two dead divers, and I thought he was telling us a story (it was too surreal to even understand that he was talking about the current dive).
Some minutes later, our dive leader surfaced; it turns out he went back down to finish his decompression -- I think. We started going towards the shore in a subdued mood.
As we neared the shore, I expected to see some guys asking questions, and maybe an ambulance or two.
Instead, we got on the shore to find the two bodies on the sand, covered in dark-blue towels, and people moving all around them.
We went on the shore, carried the equipment to the dive centre, thrn stood there an hour or so, not knowing what to do or say.
After that, we went with A on the harbor, walking and chatting this and that. My guess is, that we were trying to put some distance between what happened and us.
Ogün and Abdullah died on our dive, on Saturday.
I feel like writing something else, but nothing comes to mind :(
Wednesday, June 27
Monday, June 25
what a weekend!
On Saturday we went to W's Reiki Share meeting, and stayed there until around four o'clock.
We did some Reiki group-healing, a Yoga Nidra session and everything ended up with enjoying the pool (for some of us), good food and me taking some pictures (which I might post later) ...
On Sunday, we went to Latchi with a large group including my entire team, rented three speed boats, and abused them for around three hours and a half.
We dived The Blue Lagoon while the guys snorkeled around, then came back to Limassol and stopped at Si's place for some pancakes.
Here's a picture selection from Sunday (I'll post some more later):
The group:
A flagging his T-shirt:
czeck-mate:
A., driving the boat:
B on the boat:
We did some Reiki group-healing, a Yoga Nidra session and everything ended up with enjoying the pool (for some of us), good food and me taking some pictures (which I might post later) ...
On Sunday, we went to Latchi with a large group including my entire team, rented three speed boats, and abused them for around three hours and a half.
We dived The Blue Lagoon while the guys snorkeled around, then came back to Limassol and stopped at Si's place for some pancakes.
Here's a picture selection from Sunday (I'll post some more later):
The group:
A flagging his T-shirt:
czeck-mate:
A., driving the boat:
B on the boat:
Monday, March 19
finally
I finally went diving again ...
Yesterday, me and Si did two dives at the White Chappel, near Agia Napa; The weather was nice and we ended up spending over 70 minutes underwater.
It was a bit cold for the 3.5 mm of my wet-suit though.
Dive technical data:
First entry: 09:59 AM
First exit: 10:33 AM
Max depth: 21.2 meters
Average depth: 12.5 meters
Safety stop: 3 minutes at 5.5 meters
Water temperature: 16.6 deg. Celsius
Second entry: 11:23 AM
Second exit: 12:02 AM
Max depth: 20.5 meters
Average depth: 12.2 meters
Safety stop: 3 minutes at 5 meters
Water temperature: 16.3 deg. Celsius
It was a good day for diving, despite being a little cold ... and I got my fill of endorphines.
Monday, September 18
the Scubapro xTender - an update
I placed a counter on my weblog to see who (and why) visits my weblog and I saw a lot of people visiting my "scubapro xTender-something like a review"; Since it seems people are interested and I gathered some more dives on it (close to fifty actually), I decided to post a little followup on that "something".
A few weeks back the original wrist-bracelet broke, so I had to replace it with a velcro strap. Knowing the difference now, I'm almost sory I didn't do this earlyer, since it's more confortable on the hand, less bothering when I'm sweaty, and easier to manipulate.
It's not that the original was unconfortable, it's just ... this "feels better" on the hald.
The computer is stil on the original battery (and seems to be stil going strong). I took it down to fourty metres (41.8 or something) with no problems (I didn't expect any anyway), and during all this time I got VERY familiar with it.
In low light (depth, poor viz. or night diving), the backlight of the screen is strong enough to illuminate 1/2 metres around you, but you can't really use it like this unless you're desperate ( and you're better off with an UW torch anyway :) ).
The "too fast ascent" alarm (a blinking "SLOW" on the watch screen) seems a bit sensitive to me and once it activates during a dive, it will keep blinking on screen when viewing the dive profile for that dive;
For me it's like a black spot on my dive profile, and for this, I find it a bit annoying.
It's also usually one of my goals during ascents to "make it not blink on this dive". On the dives I succeed, this makes me kind-of happy :).
The titanium ring on the edge of the thing is a life-saver, as it took a few strong hits up to now without complaining; Infact I have a few scratches on it, but considering those scratches would have been on the screen instead of the protection ring, this actually keeps me happy.
Regarding the water temperature sensor ... it seems preety accurate to me, though I've had .5 to 1 degrees differences between my computer and other divers' ones. I don't find this to be an issue though, since the temperature is "accurate enough" to estimate equipment requirements.
Otherwise, I stil am happy with it and I probably will continue to be so.
... and by the way, I stil didn't manage to get the english version of the computer manual but I got on fine without it.
A few weeks back the original wrist-bracelet broke, so I had to replace it with a velcro strap. Knowing the difference now, I'm almost sory I didn't do this earlyer, since it's more confortable on the hand, less bothering when I'm sweaty, and easier to manipulate.
It's not that the original was unconfortable, it's just ... this "feels better" on the hald.
The computer is stil on the original battery (and seems to be stil going strong). I took it down to fourty metres (41.8 or something) with no problems (I didn't expect any anyway), and during all this time I got VERY familiar with it.
In low light (depth, poor viz. or night diving), the backlight of the screen is strong enough to illuminate 1/2 metres around you, but you can't really use it like this unless you're desperate ( and you're better off with an UW torch anyway :) ).
The "too fast ascent" alarm (a blinking "SLOW" on the watch screen) seems a bit sensitive to me and once it activates during a dive, it will keep blinking on screen when viewing the dive profile for that dive;
For me it's like a black spot on my dive profile, and for this, I find it a bit annoying.
It's also usually one of my goals during ascents to "make it not blink on this dive". On the dives I succeed, this makes me kind-of happy :).
The titanium ring on the edge of the thing is a life-saver, as it took a few strong hits up to now without complaining; Infact I have a few scratches on it, but considering those scratches would have been on the screen instead of the protection ring, this actually keeps me happy.
Regarding the water temperature sensor ... it seems preety accurate to me, though I've had .5 to 1 degrees differences between my computer and other divers' ones. I don't find this to be an issue though, since the temperature is "accurate enough" to estimate equipment requirements.
Otherwise, I stil am happy with it and I probably will continue to be so.
... and by the way, I stil didn't manage to get the english version of the computer manual but I got on fine without it.
Friday, September 15
older pictures
I found these while I was sorting my older DVDs.
This one is a picture I took in Israel, from my window at Hotel Cinema.
a diver in poor visibility, in Malta, on a wreck dive
... and ascension in the Blue Hole, Gozo island
This one is a picture I took in Israel, from my window at Hotel Cinema.
a diver in poor visibility, in Malta, on a wreck dive
... and ascension in the Blue Hole, Gozo island
Sunday, August 20
weekend activity
It's been a good weekend;
Yesteday I went to S&C's place for the evening and we (sort-of) played bridge. All in all it was a fun evening :)
Yesteday I went to S&C's place for the evening and we (sort-of) played bridge. All in all it was a fun evening :)
Wednesday, May 17
Friday, May 12
cold induced tourette ... or close enough
These guys are screwed up; In the head; (that was the best dive plan I've ever seen: go 300 ft deep, then start "How deep are we gonna go?"
... and they came so close to a Darwin award!
(P., thanks for the link)
... and they came so close to a Darwin award!
(P., thanks for the link)
Sunday, May 7
Monday, May 1
good dive yesterday
It was a good dive yesterday; The site's name is "Manigi" I am told, and it's twenty minutes from Paphos, going towards Akamas.
We had left at seven in the morning and I spent my time getting there on the back seat of a pickup truck, alternating between reading Broken Angels and dozing off.
We started setting up the equipment around a quarter to nine, and were entering the water around nine.
The part that sucked in all that was the surface swim: around 200 metres in full gear through waves made sure I reached the site with leg pains and out of breath; I also drank some water through the borrowed snorkel.
Never mind;
We took a few minutes to catch our breath (backinflated BCD are really heaven in that regard - I just layed back on top of it and drifted for two minutes) then went down;
Dive technical data:
time in: 9:47
time out: 10:45 (58 minutes dive time)
max depth: 17.9 metres
average depth: 7.8 metres
average water temperature: 18.5 deg. Celsius (21 upon water entry)
safety stop: between 6 and 4 metres for 10 minutes (we did the swim back during safety stop)
The dive site is around a rocky island, approximately 200 metres from the shore;
It was a good, relaxed dive (for me at least), and we went through a tunnel and a big stone arch on the outside of the island.
On the way back I came in Pavel's car and dozed off again, book in hand, much to his amusement.
It seems though that I will have to take up swimming; I don't want to be that exhaused before a dive again and skating just ... doesn't cut it.
We had left at seven in the morning and I spent my time getting there on the back seat of a pickup truck, alternating between reading Broken Angels and dozing off.
We started setting up the equipment around a quarter to nine, and were entering the water around nine.
The part that sucked in all that was the surface swim: around 200 metres in full gear through waves made sure I reached the site with leg pains and out of breath; I also drank some water through the borrowed snorkel.
Never mind;
We took a few minutes to catch our breath (backinflated BCD are really heaven in that regard - I just layed back on top of it and drifted for two minutes) then went down;
Dive technical data:
time in: 9:47
time out: 10:45 (58 minutes dive time)
max depth: 17.9 metres
average depth: 7.8 metres
average water temperature: 18.5 deg. Celsius (21 upon water entry)
safety stop: between 6 and 4 metres for 10 minutes (we did the swim back during safety stop)
The dive site is around a rocky island, approximately 200 metres from the shore;
It was a good, relaxed dive (for me at least), and we went through a tunnel and a big stone arch on the outside of the island.
On the way back I came in Pavel's car and dozed off again, book in hand, much to his amusement.
It seems though that I will have to take up swimming; I don't want to be that exhaused before a dive again and skating just ... doesn't cut it.
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