Action: Scuba Diving

(Credit: Jurgen Hannak)

Two weekends ago I completed my first two dives in the open ocean since eight grade. It served both as a reassessment of my skills and as an additional action activity. Both dives were wreck dives and tested my skills at maintaining neutral buoyancy, which I have never been very good at. I did manages to do better than I had during eighth grade and did not damage any coral. Despite this I'm still setting out to improve my underwater motion control. This will also help with another goal related to scuba diving which is improving my air usage. At the moment I can just about complete an hour dive with a 200 bar tank. I would like to improve my air intake so that I can spend longer times underwater, a skill which will be important as I embark on completing my advanced open water dive training in March.

(Credit: Jurgen Hannak) 

1st Dive Details:
·         Time in: 10:52 hrs.
·         Depth: 20 m
·         Duration: 57 min
·         Temperature: 29 C
·         Safety stop: 3 min at 5 m

Surface Interval: 1 Hour 5 Minutes 

(Photo Credit Jurgen Hannack)

Dive details:

·         Time in: 12:56

·         Depth: 13 mtrs

·         Duration: 57 min

·         Temperature: 29 C

·         Safety stop: 3 min at 5 m