Cheated on my wife at Ginnie

[tflaris]

My wife Li has a Nursing Conference in Washington Dc and so I went diving. (She has nicknamed me D.B.D.W. Dirty Bastard Dive #####). She states that I will dive with just about anybody. She's a little jealous but who can blame her.

So today I did a solo dive at Ginnie. Dove the Meg CCR with a Setpoint of 1.2 with a max depth of 96' and dive time of 95 minutes.

Crowds were non-existence. A few other teams diving.

Jumped into the water started mounting my bailout bottles. Went to turn on my Primary light and nothing..............

Noticed that my Dive Rite HID 1000 which I totally love diving with has a problem with the bulb rattling loose.............

So I did what any diver would do in my position and offered 10,000 dollars for a primary light.

A couple of divers were going to scrap their dive just to sell their light when Evelyn Dudas came to the rescue with a spare primary and was even going to swap out the 10 watt HID head with a HID 1000.

So a world of thanks to Evelyn Dudas for saving the day.

Visibility was great with a jump off to Hill 400 and down to 1000' line arrow and a jump off to the left followed by a jump to the right. You just can't bring enough reels to Ginnie.

Flow seemed up but it has been months since I had been to Ginnie.

Dropped the light off over at Wes Skiles' place and headed to Dinner.

[scubabrownie]

dang, dude, heck of a dive...you made good decisions all the way around...

[cwick]

"D.B.D.W"
Wow that's rough!

Sounds like a good dive though.... maybe it was worth the new title.

When are you coming beck to Wakulla?

[Diverlee]

My wife Li has a Nursing Conference in Washington Dc and so I went diving. (She has nicknamed me D.B.D.W. Dirty Bastard Dive #####). She states that I will dive with just about anybody. She's a little jealous but who can blame her.

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I agree with Li 100%. You shouldn't go diving without her, just kidding
Sounds like a great dive Tony.

[Angie]

With a nickname like that it can't be the first time......

[jeandiver]

You should have stopped by Turkey Roost. It was our MegaDive this weekend. Ya , I think the flow is up in there (did a couple dives there myself this weekend). We also went up Hill 400 on Friday night and it was just superb.

Either I am getting WAY OLDER (or crankier or something EEK) , but it did seem like it took a little extra ummmph to get down the Gallery and thru dem Lippie type thingies ( lol )

Beano

P.S. Sounds like you did Double Lines (?). I bet the vis was just superb back there too.

[IowaCaveDiver]

anybody else having problems with the H1000 bulbs popping out? happend to ours twice now and currently it is at DR for hopefully a warranty repair since it isn't working at all. We weeded out the battery and determined it is the head... havn't heard back yet.

[FW]

anybody else having problems with the H1000 bulbs popping out? happend to ours twice now and currently it is at DR for hopefully a warranty repair since it isn't working at all. We weeded out the battery and determined it is the head... havn't heard back yet.

Yep, check this thread.
http://www.cavediver.net/forum/showt...t=bulb+falling

[Cantey]

anybody else having problems with the H1000 bulbs popping out? happend to ours twice now and currently it is at DR for hopefully a warranty repair since it isn't working at all. We weeded out the battery and determined it is the head... havn't heard back yet.

yep, happened to my buddy right before a dive a few weeks ago. It's an easy fix, unscrew the head and plug it back in....

I imagine that would be problematic during a dive though.

[IowaCaveDiver]

i'm just getting very tired of buying gear and then having to eat the cost of shipping or make a trip to lake city during the week (because they arn't open when i'm around there diving on the weekends) to bring gear back that has manufacturing issues... I was there last week with three different pieces of gear, all warranty issues.