Well I'll keep it short and try not to include what I got at the gas station on the way to the dive spot.
Saturday. Showed up right after 10am and suited up.
Dive 1
Decided to go down the rock wall. Never dove it before. We wanted to touch bottom at 125' but decided to shoot for 100', check each other out .. make sure we weren't narced, too cold, etc... and head down some more if we were comfortable. So that's exactly what we did.
Max Depth - 124'
Bottom Time - 26 min.
Temp - 58
Whatever you do, don't disturb the bottom down there. I was just ever so slightly negative at the bottom, stuck two fingers out to stop myself from touching and my hand was eaten by the mysterious black silt. I made it out alive.
Dive 2
Decided to hit the sailboat, bus and culverts and do our safety stop at the dolphin. That's exactly what we did. Visibility wasn't all that great, but there were alot of people there and 90% of them were classes.
Max Depth - 83
Bottom Time - 33
Temp - 59
Dive 3
Stayed shallow. Just dove around the boats and firetrucks and what not. Took a can of cheeze wiz down. That was fun. Had to call it short because of closing time. Came out of the water at 4:57pm. Still had almost 2000 psi left.
Max Depth - 55
Bottom Time - 43
Temp - 77 - much nicer
Sunday
Just went up there in hopes someone would need a buddy. Sarah had a conference to go to. So I got buddied up with two regulars. One was not so comfortable going deep and getting cold, but the other was cool with it. So one dive we stayed shallow and the other we went deep. I won't give you stats on the shallow, it's boring.
My new friend decided to take me down a wall, then down a guide line to the bottom. Said he was gonna check and see how I was feeling, then head down some more if I was comfortable. This was a really cool dive and was my first time around that area. Looked totally different than the rest. Huge boulders and rock walls Oh My ! He stirred up the bottom to let me see what no viz was like. He had told me the night before they were doing a night dive and had some guys stir up the bottom, then they turned around and had to swim back through it. He said it freaked a couple of guys out. So he stirred up the bottom and we stuck our heads in it. It was neat. After hitting our max depth we swam up slowly and leveled off at 108' for a minute and looked around. Found a Yuengling Beer bottle which is the oldest brewing company in the US. We gradually kept ascending while checking out stuff.
Max Depth - 142'
Bottom Time - 30
Temp - 55
Came up with 1000 psi still in the tank.
So I got 5 more dives and a new max depth under my belt.
