Dive Florida - West Palm Beach Narcosis Dive Charters

The Trench and North Drift / Bath and Tennis, 11-June-2006

Dive Trip Report to: West Palm Beach, Dive Boat Narcosis Dive Charters
Purpose: La-La Dives - Ya jump in, go to the bottom, come back up a few feet, drift along and look at all the Pretty's going La-La-La!

Dive Reports 11-June-2006

Dive #1: . My Dive # 553
A. Dive Boat / Location: Narcosis Dive Charters / The Trench and North Drift
B. Conditions:
Visibility: 30 ft
Seas: 2 to 4 ft
Water Temp: 78 deg
Skies: Clouds, No Sun - but then again no rain.
Air Temp: 70 - 60's
C. Dive Information:
Depth & Time: Me: Genesis Nitrox Dive Computer - 63 ft for 56 min, 36% NITROX PO2 1.04
Air consumption: Me: (120 cu ft), 3700 lbs to 700 lbs - lot's of air, did a lot of work on this dive!
Current: 2.4 measured by the boat on the surface, estimated at 3 knots at 50 ft!
Description: Well it was a cloudy day [ no sun - bad for taking pics ], but I needed to get wet and wanted to try out my new dive underwater camera - a 7 Meg Pixel, Olympus SP-350. There were some opening on the Sunday Morning Dive, so off I went. The first dive was just south of the Trench off of Breaker's Hotel. We were told not to stop on the Trench, but continue on and follow Susan the DM. Well the current was a roaring - estimated at 3 knots on the bottom. Some of the pics show the DM putting her feet out to slow down. She also was kicking east very hard to stay on the reef. I used up my 120 cu ft of NITROX in less than an hour on this shallow 60 ft dive! We saw lot's of Grunts - past them real fast. Saw turtles, bugs and lots of stuff. Vis wasn't the greatest, but it was still a fun, but hard working dive.

Dive #2: . My Dive # 554
A. Dive Boat / Location: Narcosis Dive Charters / Bath and Tennis
B. Conditions:
Visibility: 30 ft
Seas: 2 to 4 ft
Water Temp: 78 Deg
Skies: Clouds, No Sun - but then again no rain.
Air Temp: 70 - 80
C. Dive Information:
Depth & Time: Me: Genesis Nitrox Dive Computer - 57 ft for 1 hr 2 min, 36% NITROX, PO2 0.98
Air consumption: Me: (120 cu ft), 3700 lbs to 1100 lbs, much better then the 1st dive
Current: Not as strong, a little more than 1 knot. Steve led this dive on Bath and Tennis. Again lots of Grunts, Turtles, Bugs and other fishy stuff.
Description: tbd

Last Updated: 13-June-2006

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