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BAUE Trip Reports
10/12/2003 Mile Buoy aboard Escapade by Pete Gelbman -- [View this report only]
| Bottom Team: |
Clinton Bauder, Ian Puleston, Pete Gelbman |
| Visibility: |
5' - 30' |
Time: | 10:38 AM |
| Temp: |
50F |
Surge: |
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| Max Depth: |
147FSW |
Avg Depth: |
140FSW |
| Bottom Time: |
0:20 |
Total Time: |
0:58 |
| Bottom Gases: |
21/35 | Deco Gases: | EAN50 |
| Backgas Config: |
Double LP104 | Deco Tanks: | AL40 |
| Deco Profile: |
deep stops
5
3
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8
4 |
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Jim & Eric kind enough defy the weather reports with us and head out to see if Carmel was diveable today. Gave it a quick look but swell was already 8-10 and predicted to get bigger early afternoon and fog was setting in so we turned it around and headed for Mile Buoy. I've never dived here and was somewhat skeptical but Clinton had assured us that it was a cool site and he was right as usual. Dropped through chuncky green 30' layer, following the anchor line straight down to 130' or so. At the bottom vis was surprisingly good and water was still. Ian and wanted some reel practice to he tied in near the anchor line, disturbing an touchy link cod. Pleasantly surprised at how nice the dive is, there's a ton of life here - farms of dense Metridiums and seemed like every fish we saw was pretty big. Sealions dive bombing us almost the whole time. Kept it short hoping to save enough backgas for another deep dive. Sealions stayed with us the whole deco. At 70' gas switch we noticed a Harbour seal mingling with the sea lions - thought we were seeing things but we all confirmed it once we got out. Three man team deco on the anchor line in low vis is a challenge to stay in good formation and keep an eye on each other - need some work there. Clinton is a good reference ;-) Spent most of our time dodging egg yoke jellies, Ian got a minor sting on his face. |
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