To all my friends, I cannot convey to you the beauty and amazement below the surface of the ocean. It bothers me that many of you reading this have never tried scuba diving or have never considered getting certified. Tonight three of us were offered a free boat charter if we would simply recover a very expensive lost anchor for a captain out of Rustico. This dive in particular was dangerous due to the tide caused by the full moon two nights ago. We descended the line holding on tight. 20 feet, 40 feet, 60 feet, then darkness, where the tide finally broke, then down to 80 feet and finally 91 feet. There was the anchor, lodged in a crevasse in the most beautiful reef I have seen to date in my scuba diving. It was a plateau, that dropped down 7 feet from the top of the plateau to the floor of the ocean. Between the floor of the ocean and the reef were several caves five to six feet under the plateau. My curiosity got the best of me in the dark water- darker than a typical dive as colours do not exist at that depth past 60 feet, only black white and the green of the water. Curiosity prodding me I clicked on my dive light to investigate and staring right back at me about five feet in front of me in the back of the cave was a massive market size lobster. Probably too wise to have ever been caught. Staring back at me taunting me. In the distance to my right I see Kelly Campbell working with his reel and Derek Campbell nearby. Here we were, three divers, at a place in the world where no human being has ever been- ever- up to this point in human existence. Miles and miles from the cavendish shore on a reef that no other diver has ever had a reason to investigate. Time is limited at this depth. And soon we began our ascent to avoid getting bent or getting decompression sickness. We follow the rules of the sport very strictly- as strictly as we followed the anchor line. Slowly we ascend to fifteen feet where we stop for three minutes or more for a safety stop which ensures the nitrogen has had enough time to exhaust our bodies. Then we surface back in the ripping current and hold on for our lives. We signal the dive boat which earlier drifted clear of our position purposefully for our safety. We signal that three divers are ok by making an o shape with our arm by touching the top of our heads. The boat comes closer. One by one we let go of the line and drift to another line tossed to us by the deckhand. The boat drifts away as that diver ascends the ladder and then it returns. Another diver lets go of the line and drifts to catch the line again from the deckhand. Process is repeated for the third diver until we are all on the boat. We sit silent for a few minutes with smirks on our faces thinking about how amazing was what we just saw. After a surface interval of an hour before our second dive to again avoid getting bent we gear up and enter the water. This dive is planned 70 feet to look for a lost lobster cage and ends up being 76 feet again at limited bottom time. The captain tells us later that a huge whale, curious about what was happening, swam really close to the boat- within a hundred yards- only five mins after we enter the water. And we had no idea. Thats just wild. And you missed it. Lol. SO FRIENDS- If you want to scuba dive, we can get you into it. Message me or call Divers Quarters and get started. The course is in-expensive and it is the best thing you could do with your life. We are diving regularly and want lots of people to enjoy what we enjoy. Theres no monetary benefit for me in posting this, just a hope that more will get into what thrills me. So I will post again soon. More scuba stories to come before summers end. Steve~
Posted on: Thu, 31 Jul 2014 02:48:10 +0000
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