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Dive logs for Vance Stevens, P.A.D.I. Open Water SCUBA Instructor #64181
ADSAC, Damaniyites, July 23, 1999
Dives 293 to 294
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Date: July 23, 1999 |
Logged Dives #293-4 |
Location: Damaniyites |
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Diving with: |
Dive site: Garden of Eden, Small island off Jun Island |
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Dive buddy: Dusty, Bobbi, Glenn |
Others on dive: Charles Walker, Fluffy towel Kevin, Mark Embleton, Lindsay, Tom Savage, Dave Teasdale |
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Others present at dive site: |
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Sea condition: choppy |
Water temp: 22 to 30 degrees |
Visibility: Poor, 5-7 meters |
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Wetsuit combo: full lycra and 3 mil top |
Weight: comfy w/8 kilos |
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Profile tracking chart |
Planned time |
Depth |
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Actual time |
Depth |
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Pressure group in |
1st dive of day |
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Time started down |
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11:03 |
22 |
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Time started up |
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11:28 |
16 |
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Time started up |
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11:38 |
12 |
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Time started up |
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11:53 |
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S |
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Safety stop if necessary |
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5 m |
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Comments: Requested, and granted, diving at middle group of islands, despite unfavorable sea conditions. The back side of the next island over was called Garden of Eden and was reputedly a great dive in good vis. Our vis was poor so it was mediocre. Still there was a lot of life there. Turtles aplenty (3 turtles including one dead one right at start of dive and last one we followed along the reef). I found a small ray in a cave. The rocks made many caves with attractive blue, yellow, white soft corals. At depth, a 2-meter big bull ray powered by just off the bottom. There were also honeycomb morays, lion fish, and big coronet fish, and an extensive, attractive cabbage and fuzzy horn coral garden at the end. Wanna go back in May.
Surface interval duration actual: 1:34
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Profile tracking chart |
Planned time |
Depth |
PG |
Actual time |
Depth |
PG |
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Pressure group in |
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C |
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Time started down |
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13:27 |
20 |
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Time started up |
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13:50 |
12 |
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Time started up |
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14:15 |
exit |
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Safety stop if necessary |
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5 m |
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Comments: This site done at our request. We went to the rocks west of Jun and tied up at the buoy in the middle of the 4 meter underwater atoll. Family got in and swam to the edge, then went down into cold 22 degree water at 20 meters looking for leopard sharks in the sand. 20 min. of boring diving while others were rounding up turtles at 12 meters up-reef. Lion fish and lobsters at 20 meters, that was about all. But as we met up with the shallow divers, we found a mass of barracuda at the 12 meter cleaning station, and near there right on cue, a leopard shark, 12, meters, about the same place last seen at this site. The coral gardens in the shallow light had decent vis and green and honeycomb morays poking up through the cabbage, including 2 big honeycombs living together right at end of dive. This dive appears best done at shallow depths, though in deeper depths, I saw a leopard shark swimming mid-water off-reef.
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