limeyx(Offline)

Took me a little trip to Canada recently, and happened to lug along the video camera.

Despite the airlines losing most of my bags for 30 hours (on a 2 hour flight), leaking dry gloves in 44F water, and ending up in wet gloves, and a lot of hauling tanks around, was a very fun trip.

Our first day, we did three dives in the Saanich inlet, looking for boot worms and cloud sponges. We found some on dive 1, a few dead ones on dive 2, and a few possibly baby ones on dive 3.

Dive 1: McCurdy Point, Depth, 160ish max, 130 average, runtime 65 mins, 44F
Dive 2: White Lday, Depth, 150ish max, 130 average, runtime 89 mins 44F
Dive 3: Forgot the name reef, Depth, 120 max, 110 average, runtime 80 mins, 44F

This is far colder water than I am used to, and with that much in-water time, by the end of the day I was the kind of cold that makes me think I will never be warm again.

I've edited up some video from the first dive.

http://www.nickambrose.com/diving/mo...-point-web.mov


Hopefully will be able to post some from dive 2, 3 soon (when I get back from mexico

Day 2, was wreck day. We only managed two dives on this day, as I was so excruciatingly cold after the second.

Richard did his magic and figured that the currents allowed us to dive the HMCS McKenzie (a sister ship to the HMCS Yukon off of San Diego), but only if we splashed in less than an hour (maybe, if he was calculating the tides correctly)

When we tied up, the current looked a little strong for a huge video camera, but a local charter boat was doing the same dive, and told us the current would lessen off.

Had a very pleasant 30 or so mins dive, including a bit of exploration inside, but discovered that a huge HD camera does not fit very well down "Burma Road" (a passageway that runs along the side of the ship)

Dive 2 was on another wreck called the "GB Church" and we took a look in the engine/pump room before scouting the outside:

Dive 1: HMCS McKenzie, depth 90 feet ish, runtime 45 mins ish
Dive 2: GB Church, depth 70 feet ish, runtime 40 mins ish

We followed this up with a visit to a pub (for coffee )on some kind of resort island, which was a bit posh and did not especially appreciate me tramping past their rather well-dressed customers in my stinking festering drysuit (oh well).

Also got a potential new dive site with some sea caves nearby ...

Video:

McKenzie

http://www.nickambrose.com/diving/mo...kenzie-web.mov

GB Church

http://www.nickambrose.com/diving/mo...church-web.mov

Larger res videos can also be found on vimeo

Nick Ambrose's videos on Vimeo

Nick

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Hyper-Limits(Offline)

Glad you had a good trip, we do have some amazing diving around here.

Cheers

Al

limeyx(Offline)

Indeed. I am going to try to get back this summer, before it all gets snowed in, but first mexico and the red sea

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Leigh u(Offline)

looks like a fun trip !!

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