Dive profile for the 1st dive at Redondo.
Wally was at the wheel cooking away some excellent grub, and there were conversations galore. I forgot that I had my camera in the car, so no above water pics... After the first dive I decided that I needed to move my pressure gauge mount so that it could be seen more easily and I needed to move the waist belt buckle further to the right away from the crotch strap. Otherwise the hours of tedious fitting and forming the harness to fit it just right seemed to have paid off. I'm a poor college student, so I also made my own necklace for my octo, and it worked quite well. I modeled it after Bassman's necklace, and it does the job for now. I have bigger items to save for at the moment...
Dive 2 Sonia and I headed back out to the bottle field to try to find some more bottles, and the couple longer bones that came out of my pockets while bottle hunting. Viz was so-so and varied between 10 to 20 feet. The dive length was 47 minutes and a max depth of 84 feet. I found a couple worthless, but interesting to me bottles, and Sonia found a bunch of cooler bottles. After the dive I went and refilled my tanks, and then headed to meet up with Victor for a Dive at Harper's Ferry in Port Orchard. His 7th dive and first one in a long while.
Dive profile for the 2nd dive at Redondo.
Dive 3 at Harper's Ferry had a even crappier northwest visibility (around 10 feet maybe...) We dropped down at the end of the dock and followed the line due north to the main wreck. We poked around for awhile, turned around and headed back to the dock. Where the lady at the Espresso stand floated me a free coffee since they didn't take credit (I asked before ordering and she told me not to worry about it, it's on the house.). They'll have my business any time I'm out there! The dive was a max of 30 feet and about a 38 minute long dive (at about this point Victor had loss feeling in his hands, he was diving a wet suit...)
Dive Profile for the wreck at Harper's Ferry.
The Roo with the Harper's Ferry fishing pier in the background.
The Roo loaded with Victor's and my gear.
Looking over the dive site.
The front of the new to me and newly assembled backplate rig.
A pic of the back of the backplate rig with the single tank adapter and doubles wing. At almost 60% off of retail price, I found the discontinued wing on sale awhile back while trying to find a 7/8" manifold, and the fact I don't use the wing for buoyancy with singles (i use the dry suit), and I plan on doubling my 100's... It was a great purchase and works awesome for surface flotation! The only problem with the wing is that it has the 12" hose, which means it is supposed to be for a double redundancy or back up wing, but at the price my poor college student budget couldn't pass it up... So I need to buy the longer 16" corrugated hose... The Dive Rite Deluxe harness, crotch strap and tank cam buckles I got from Tacoma Scuba, along with the light and most things that I don't buy used. There's an awesome group of guys that work there and I strongly recommend Tacoma Scuba. The backplate and single tank adapter is a hammerhead without the handles and weighs just under 12lbs. Hopefully the next purchase on pay day is a longer hose for my primary regulator... Then I need to find a set of used doubles regulators, and buy a set of bands for the 100's...
