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Oct 14, 1999, 8:41 AM
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Doria Diving at 230 feet -- isn't that place accident prone?
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I'd love to do the Doria, but I'm not trimix certifide; nor am I certifide for dry suit.
I have never done non-tropical diving and away from a reef. There, I've said it.
Anyway, I've heard that a lot of accidents happen at the Doria. Like divers being swept by the current and found cold and shaking a couple of miles away.
Still .... how much would it cost me? Would you hire me? I'd make a good safety diver, waiting for you on the anchor line with a full tank and regulator at 60 feet. I'll even have your favorite magazine waiting for you for the extended decompression stops.
See ! ... now you got me grovelling!
Gordon
: Gordon it looks like we are going back to the Doria in June if you want to go. We will be using trimix, a 40%Helium-43%Nitrogen-17%O2 mix for the dive. Back in 1989 a friend and I went and at 190 I come close to losing him, you can acutely hear him yelling underwater in his reg. on the video. You can also see me drop the camera and grab him to go up, this scared me BAD. Sense that dive if I go below 200 we use trimix.
: Everyone be careful!!!!!
: Dale Poff
: Aqua Productions
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: : Phil:
: : At 155 feet (exactly) my exhaust bubbles sound to me like a thousand metal ping pong balls hitting each other. All the fish seemed as if wishing to discuss the wisdom of wetsuit I was wearing.
: : I've never done a job at this depth. On fun dives I almost always have to rescue buddies whose eyes turn "sh_t faced" by 160 feet. I have to drag them to about 140 feet before the smiles return. As a result, I never take video down to this depth, knowing I might be forced to ditch equipment to save a mate. (My gear isn't insured).
: : A full faced mask, housing, lights, twin tanks ... talk about major dive site credibility!
: : I envy you. But rinsing and storing your gear might be a major chore though, right? Takes me more than two hours to do mine.
: : Gordon
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: : : It was a memorable experience,
: : : I descended backwards down the "Shark Shoals" pinnacle in the Saba Marine Park, from 15fsw to 210fsw in less than 3 minutes (never dove the site before). Compressed air (no mix), twin aluminum 80's, AGA Mask with SCUBAPHONE com connection, SONY DCR VX 1000 with a SEA & SEA housing, no lighting, no filters, recording a few Models wearing & using ORCATRON's SCUBAPHONE SPORT com system prototypes, they descended directly above me at the same pace. I still have the profile of the dive recorded on my Aladin Air-X Nitrox "DATATRAK" software, after a 20 minute deco stop, I just made it to the surface as I ran out of air.
: : : The concept was to capture a "God's Light" shot of our 46ft. Catamaran slowly dissappearing into the sun, the Divers gradually
: : : becoming evident. Well, it kinda worked, if it wasn't for the strong cross-currents it would have been absolutely spectacular.
: : : Still, we came back alive and with some really good 6mm DVT footage of the SCUBAPHONE's in non-stop use from 15fsw to 210fsw. We recorded the actual ultrasound audio conversations onto a new mini-dat format(no bigger than the size of your thumb-nail) connected to the Surface Unit.
: : : If anything, it was a rush, to say the least,
: : : Phil Adams - Manta Multimedia Inc. - Vancouver, B. C., Canada
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