Zylantha
Australia
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Nº2
Date: 2002-10-16 - 12:55
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Forgot the new dive computer, d'oh!
Left with just the standard gauges on loan from
Jansen.
Païvi's first dive with us, and Rex's first dive since Sophia was born.
Craig & Rob got told off (maybe fined) for violating the total fire ban!
Had a lok
over at another dive site that was supposed to be calmer (at the advice of the rural
fire service) but it was no better, and had a terribly long walk to get to it.
Returned
to Gravel Loader for the dive.
Several jellyfish with the coloured lights on the
edges, quite a lot of others that seemed damaged / dead.
Yuki found a tiny little
electric blue fish, I found some larger electric blue ones.
Craig was led to navigate
out towards the pier, but went too quickly, lost his buddies (Païvi & Rex), whodidn't
surface when they lost him.
He went back into shore after waiting around without
us, rather upset at not having a proper dive.
Memo - with three in a buddy, agree
on the lost-buddy procedure.
Don't run off with the compass either!
Especially Craig.
Since I had given my SK-7 to Yuki, had to follow her and Païvi the two navigators,
who led us out to the piers.
Luckily none of the spear fishers were around (there
were a number on shore; better here than Bushrangers Bay), there were a few medium
sized fish of various shapes and sizes, but nothing really notable.
After hanging
around the bottom of the piers not being able to find Craig, Rex & I surfaced but
still couldn't find him.
Then on going back for the others Rex lost a fin, god only
knows how.
We swam around for ten minutes or so looking for it (after telling Yuki
& Païvi) to no avail.
After surfacing again and discussing the loss of Craig, and
drifting with the wind quite a way past the piers we headed back in, Yuki navigating
again and Rex swimming in circles behind us.
Yuki's first lesson in underwater navigation
- the compass is right no matter what your instincts say.
We ended up fifty metres
from where we should have been, and had a rocky exit rather than the nice easy boat
ramp exit.