Saturday dive Mt. Storm

Corrine and I went up to storm yesterday, for a dive. It was much warmer than last week-end, 27 degrees. When we arrived it started snowing, by the time we left, it had snowed 1/2". We got geared up, and I helped Corrine down the hill to the water, it's a very steep hill. I got in the water, clipped on my 2 stage bottles, and off we went. We headed to the main platform, and did some skills. I can now do a valve drill in my drysuit, yea!! From there we headed down to the 50' platform, then to the 90'. I discovered that one of the lines between the platforms is losse. Corrine was getting cold, she was diving wet, so we headed back up. I will return next week-end to remove the line so no one will get tangled in it.

Dive today at Mt. Storm

Jeff m. and I went to Mt.Storm today to work on skills and drills. When we arrived at the stained glass restaraunt it '0', a little cold. We ate breakfast,and hung out enjoying the warmth. But, we had come to dive, so it was off to the lake. When we arrived at the lake it had warmed up to '3', not a big improvement. We geard up quickly so we could get into the relatively warmer water,'53' at the surface. When I tried to inflate my BC I found that the inflator was frozen. After sitting underwater for a few moments it started working. We hit all the platforms, and practiced slills,it was '43' at 90'. We had a 1:10 dive, and I finally figured out how to do a valve drill in my dry suit. When we got out it had warmed up to '13', luckilythere was only a slight breeze, wind would have been brutal. Our gear had frozen by the time we got to the truck, Getting a frozen dry suit off is interesting. We had to leave our gear together, it was frozen, and we couldn,t get it apart. Still it was a good dive.

Milbrook the 11th

Davey and I went to millbrook for the chilly willy dive. It was cold when we got there at 10:30{24degrees}. But we had a propane heater in the shed, and that made it very comfortable to change. There were more people there than I thought there would be, about 15. The water was cold{42degrees}. We dove to the platform at beach2 then down to the airplane{76'}. Unfortunately someone had arrived there before us and were still there. One of the divers was very good, but the other was having bouyancy issues, he was rototilling the bottom reducing the vis to about 1'. I had to do widening circles to find the line to the winnebago. When I found it we started to follow it, only to discover that the others had followed this line also. the vis along most of the line was 1-2'. Normally this time of year the vis is 20'-25'. It was quite cold at 86'. From there we made our way back to the platform and did our safety stop. When we got out the temperature had risen dramatically, sun was shining, no wind. It was a beautiful day. We talked with Geof, and Elliot, from The Dive Shop, and headed home.

Todays dive

Went back up to Mt. Storm today, to try to run a deep line. We miscalculated the depth of the silt on the bottom, so our stakes were to short. So we did a deep dive along the wall toward the dam. Water temps were the same, around 50 degrees. But, air temps were much warmer,30 degrees. You would think that this would mean it was warmer, wrong. The wind was blowing, with snow, and it felt much colder than yesterday. It was really miserable out of the water. We have figured a different way to run the line, so we'll give it another try later.

New Years dive!

We dove at Mt. Storm today. A group from Blue marble divers. Corrine tried her new doubles, backplate, and wing. It was 22 degrees, but no wind, amazing. We had a great day, and great dive. We had a potluck lunch after.