Sunday the team did
not get to do the ice diver training we were hoping for. The ice was not in
great shape and it was to soft for what we needed. But that did not stop us
from diving, with new member rich we need to get him up to speed and we do that
by diving. He does come in with a lot of skills so this will not take long.
The day was bright
and sunny and the ocean was flat with a little bit of wind, so the plan was to
do an out and around and come up on the beach. We hit the water and found we had good visibility and the tide
was just moving out. All was going well until about half way through the dive
and the wind started picking up out of the south west pushing the water up the
beach and around the front of the inlet. Everyone made the beach but Big Joe
and I as we were bring up the rear with the second dive flag. We surfaced and
came up the jacks.
Sue
was our surface support on this dive and was right there and everyone made it
out and up on to the jetty. It was at this point we found out we had lost a
dive flag and float, Sue said she saw it an half hour ago and it was heading
north with the wind. The flag was seen way up the beach (may be a half mile
north of the jetty). We sent 349 back to the building and 347 took off after
the flag, we hate to lose gear! We went to the north end of Manasquan and could
see the flag was still going north, Greg and Chet took off up the beach and OJ,
Big Foot and Nina headed for Spring Lake. We got the flag just as we made it to
Spring Lake. The flag drifted over two miles, but we got it back!
It was a good dive. Greg found out you can’t hold
the flag line in your hands, Bob and Rich found out not to get to close to the
rocks coming around the end of the jetty when you have a south west wind
blowing. Joe and Chet found out bring full sinker tubes up the jacks sucks. Ali
found out how cold bags suits are and Sue found out her new mittens are really
warm.
1 comment:
Wow Chet, this is a great bog. Outstanding job of narrating the day. Congratulations!!!!
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