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From Bryan Palmer . . .
Ok let’s get down to Business
Friday night – a group of us going on the Isla Muerjes trip to Mexico. This trip is run by Dennie Leese and is completely booked SO SORRY you’ll just have to look at our pictures when we get back. But it was good to see a bunch of people that I have come to know over the years Neil and Lisa, Chris and Norma and Pressler, Dave Moyer and of course the EVER Beautiful Bud. It was great seeing you all.
Saturday I had planned a dive for BSC with several people Frank Herring and Sharon Slieker-Jones new “semi converts” from York divers, along with a few of the Smokey's crew Huckster, Kent Dr. Deco, Mark Myers and Scott the rock. Near the end of the week I heard of another group coming out led by Instructor Bill Siwiec. This group consisted of topher, Paul and Suzie. Ok now as most of you know SNOW SNOW SNOW and diving is on the last of most of all your minds but for some reason diving is in the blood and a LITTLE snow doesn’t stop us from going. That is where is stops, snow doesn’t ICE does stop us, well most.
First words I heard when I walked through the door at BSC was, there is ice. I’m thinking YES, yeah just what I have been waiting for, then I realize what does this mean hmmmm.
Sets in everyone present can’t go in I am the first ice certified diver on site hmm maybe I won’t be diving? Some time goes by and as we tell people one by one that there is ice good buddy Huckster shows up well there will be a some diving going on today. YESSS J. And short after Dr Deco showed up fashionable late. After taking a look at the ice and where we might enter we started chopping away. Don‘t ever give Huck a broom he doesn’t know that it hurts if you hit yourself with it. Kent saved the day with some rods made getting through the ice a lot easier and faster. Fast forward, we geared up and entered at the road in about just over 4 feet of water before hitting the ice. Headed over to the road down to the bulldozer and boat and down to the deep boat. Huck and I were taking a few pictures while the good Dr was watch over us. I wandered over to the edge of the hole when I looked back and no one had followed, so I went back to the boat and see Dr Deco hanging on to the cable to the platform with bubbles extruding from something. We found that it was his bc inflator so his bc was losing air and hit inflator hose was losing air. Huck and I isolated the problem and we ended the dive from there. We headed back to the point of entrance after a 28-minute dive. But everything was great
From Jess Zellers . . .
Ah, winter diving... frozen gear, frozen feet, frozen dock, frozen friends. Ain't it great! Well thursday night tradition was upheld yet again at Myerstown. And everyone had a good dive. Then Tom and Gerhert come in, Tom announced that if anyone finds a split fin that goes on the right foot it would appreicate it being returned. The following is purely for education value. Cause I'd certaintly like to learn something about the throught process involved. Tom and Gerhert were out in the bowl working with a reel to get headings between things without line tied to them. According to Tom everything going just fine, he's swimming along with the reel and both fins. He losses a fin, and then after letting Gerhert know about it. They start swimming back to the dock. Somewhere in all this is alot of silt and following a line under that silt. We spent a good long time harassing Tom and just don't understand how you can loose a fin, be perfectly ok, and swim away from it. Don't worry Tom, we're laughing with you!
As always the food was hot, good, and plentiful. I realize the dive reports lately haven't had pleas for thursday night diving... the ink in pen's been frozen. But we got great food and a hot fire. We all dove together, knew how to act, and were there for the first ice dive of the year J. I also went over 100 hours of dive time and could have asked for 2 of the best dive buddies to do it with, not to mention one of the most beautiful days out there.
From Darth Vern . . .
ICE ICE BABY [sorry I say that every year] We are having an ice class this weekend at BSC. Check the pictures there is ice just about covering all of BSC. Not to late to get in. There are some prerequisites, so call Cindy at the shop to find out more information! TRUST ME it is an incredible experience and you will learn tons!!! The dives are cool, but nothing can describe to you what its like, YOU GOTTA GET OUT AND DO IT!!!! You can not get into BSC unless you are ice certified, so don't try, people got turned away last week, sotake the class!!!
Keep on diving and LIVE THE ADVENTURE!!!
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