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Bottom Time to Date:
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17m Dive Info:
Dive Start:
9:15AM Bottom Time: 39 minutes Maximum Depth: 24 feet Safety Stop: n/a Beginning Air: 3000 psi Ending Air: 1500 psi Weather Conditions: Sunny 95°F Surface Conditions: Choppy Surface Water Temperature: 81°F Bottom Water Temperature: 81°F Visibility: 2-3 feet |
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| June 1,
2001 |
MARTINI COVE SAN CARLOS - SONORA, MEXICO PADI Advanced Open Water Certification Dive No. 1 - Underwater Naturalist
| TRAINING DIVE
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| VIDEO
| Linda (buddy), Feliza Rios (Instructor)
| El Mar Diving Center
http://www.elmar.com/ | |||||||||
Linda and I enjoy a wonderful long drive down south into Mexico, through Nogales and Hermosillo on Mexico 15. We get plenty of smiling looks at our 2001 New Beetle, a bit of a novelty in Mexico. My instructor is Feliza Rios, a very pleasant employee at El Mar. Our first dive is a boat dive in what is usually an easy and popular site called Martini Cove. Feliza suggests I get re-acquainted with my gear by doing the “Underwater Naturalist” dive. I am instructed to locate and identify 2 plants, 4 vertebrates, and 4 invertebrates during this dive. Linda and I suit up. My new Oneill wetsuit fits me like a glove – I really like it. I am also diving for the first time with a new Top Dawg video camera housing outfitted with my Christmas present from Linda, a Sony DCR-TRV11 digital Handycam.
Submerging into the warm water, we get our first glimpse of what will be a weekend long battle with visibility. It is terrible! My hands appear to be fuzzy glowing spots, and I cannot see my fins at all. Linda separates from me only a small distance - - and disappears! Incredibly bad visibility. Nevertheless, we head out of the cove towards an area known as the Aquarium, and we encounter a few lifeforms on the rocks. For purposes of my certification, my official sightings included: Plants: seaweed, palm tree (upon surface); Invertebrates: starfish, scallop, anemone, nudibranch; Vertebrates: sergeant major, Cortez damselfish, diver Linda, diver Rich. The video housing was very easy to use, and the video quality is actually better than the sights we gathered through our masks.
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Dive Info: |
Fins:
Mares Avanti Quattro |
Computer:
U S Divers Matrix |
Tank:
80 ft3 Al |
BCD:
SeaQuest Spectrum 4 |
Dive Type:
BOAT (Granny Slick) |
Body of Water:
Sea of Cortez | |||||
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Mask:
U S Divers |
Protection:
3mm full wetsuit |
Regulator:
SeaQuest Spectrum XR2 plus Oceanic Slimline octopus |
Weight:
13 lb |
Water Type:
Salt |
Video Equipment:
Sony DCR-TRV11 digital Handycam in Top Dawg housing | ||||||
