Twin January 20th

[bpcfire1]

I would like to take the time to say that I am sorry to the team of four doing their cavern and Intro class at Twin on the morning of 1/20 around 1030-1100. When I came out of the entrance into the open water area, I pulled my dump valve to release some air, and it stuck open. Being in 5ft of water, I hit the silty bottom in about 2 sec and made a mess.

I wanted to those to know why we they has to take 10 min floating till the area cleared out.

[vicp]

Did you by any chance swap the pull dump from low to high?

I think that I read somewhere that you have the SMS100 (or something similar) with mods (as per Edd). The reason I ask this is that I did the same swap and when I pulled open the dump at about 120' in Hudson Grotto it stuck open and I did a header into a couple of feet of silt. In deep open water I would have been in real deep (literally) doo-doo as I was in a wet suit. Needless to say, I put the dump/inflator back to stock and make sure I have redundant buoyancy (drysuit or lift bag when wet) . I also like to be able to vent from the bottom in case I need to (as when getting foot light in a dry suit).

[ianr33]

I've also had problems with a leaking dump valve after moving it to the bottom. Did not care for that and moved it back again.

On the other hand, it does give a perfect excuse for trashing the viz!

[bpcfire1]

I have the both SMS and Nomad with Edds Mods and I was using the Nomad. I was diving wet also and back up inflation but it was so quick and shallow, it didnt matter. I have not changed them back as I know that sometimes it happens. After close inspection, it appeared that the spring was very weak and needs to be replaced after having alot of wear on it.

I have no issues dumping in any position. I changed the way I attached the Inflator hose, and it now allows me to use it in diff positions.

Yes, before I could blink, I stuck my arms out and went all the way up to my mask in the silt....Ill say there is some hard bottom about 3 ft under the silt there...LOL...

[Jax]

Wow, Way to man up!!!

There was an argument as to whether Twin looked like "chocolate milk" or a "caramel latte".

I feel for you, I did somewhat of the same in HITW . . .

[HansB]

I'm sure we silted it up a LOT more after you guys left... I've experienced some low vis situations fossil diving in the cooper river, but an air share drill while exiting the cavern resulted in a total blackout... all in all a great experience!

Can't wait to get back in cave country

[bpcfire1]

It was not pretty, ill say that..



HansB, were you in the class???

[HansB]

Yep, Basic Cave Certified now!

I honestly have to say cavern and basic is the best SCUBA class I've taken to date, thanks to RN!

[TracyN]

Lol! All I know is that the cavern was perfectly clear when I went to pick up my O2 bottle and when I looked up it was as though a silt bomb had gone off and all I could see was a faint glow from the entrance.

[FW]

Lol! All I know is that the cavern was perfectly clear when I went to pick up my O2 bottle and when I looked up it was as though a silt bomb had gone off and all I could see was a faint glow from the entrance.

Ah Ha! It was you