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Dive logs for Vance Stevens, P.A.D.I. Open Water SCUBA Instructor #64181

ADSAC, Musandam, August 13, 1999
Dives 295 to 296
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 Date: August 13, 1999

Dive #295-6

Location: Musandam

Diving with: adsac

Dive sites: Stack and Headland opposite Lima Rock

Dive buddy: Tom Darwisher

Others on dive:

Others present at dive site: Jim Darwisher & femme, Allan Gawith

Sea condition: calm

Water temp: 26 / 27 apprx

Visibility: poor

Wetsuit combo: lycra body suit and blue Typhoon top

Weight: 6 kg

 

Profile tracking chart

Planned time

Depth

PG

Actual time

Depth

PG

Pressure group in

1st dive of day

20

 

 

22

 

Time at next level

 

 

 

 

16

 

 

Comments: Went down anchor line into stiff current which dogged us and kept air consumption high throughout dive. Came upon a ray under a rock then turned to current side of stack. Scads of fish, schools remarkably dense. Once came at me and diverged around. Triggers not aggressive. Green and honeycomb morays. Big bat fish. Beautiful white, orange, blue, purple soft corals. At surface, saw a pod of dolphins break water simultaneously between boat and stack, but divers down didn't see them.

Surface interval duration planned: 2 hours

Surface interval duration actual: hour 30

 

Profile tracking chart

Planned time

Depth

PG

Actual time

Depth

PG

Time started down

 

 

 

 

18

 

Time at next level

 

 

 

 

12

 

Time started up

 

 

 

51 min

 

 

Safety stop if necessary

 

5 m

 

 

 

 

 

Comments: The usual dive up the headland and back out. Came upon another ray in a rock. Found a turtle with a ramora on its back. A second ramora came up under Tom, huge one. Other than that, heading into cove was not all that special. Came up to 12 meters for return to boat and dive got pretty spectacular, with the soft corals, morays, schools of fish. Quite pleasant just taking it all in. We cheated on air, getting down to maybe 30 bar each, but not using all that much air last 15 min of dive. Tom was comfortable with that. We reached the tip of the peninsula before feeling current and surfaced soon thereafter for a swim back to the boat.

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