Today C.Lock and I headed to Ogden for an early afternoon dive. Gearing up, and heading out along the blocks we jumped in around the first marker.<\/p>\n
On the extremely GIANT stride into the water, I managed to get my primary reg’s exhaust T bent over! A few moments of mumbling, I procured the necessary tool to fold the small piece of rubber back over to stop water from going the wrong way in the reg.<\/p>\n
That tool? none other than my wet-notes pencil lead of course!<\/p>\n
With the reg reassembled, we descended down into the nice drift out towards the end of the breakwater.<\/p>\n
Again, my primary light didn’t like working past the 5 minute mark. Just blinking away like someone cares about it’s feeling for the LiPh battery that I blew up the other day. Silly me, it’s still grieving.<\/p>\n
There were are few critters of note, the largest Tiger Rockfish (it was huge!) that I’ve ever seen (and scared off). Some nudi’s, including one I didn’t see until looking at the footage on the urchins spine. A hermit crab being attacked by a worm. And the usual cast of curious, but scaredy cat Cods.<\/p>\n
The swim back against the current wasn’t too bad overall. A section or two that almost made the thought of ‘Sporty’ on the scale of ‘Huh?’ to ‘Tsunami’ for a 55 minute dive. On the Dairki tide site, we hopped in at the tail end of slack on a fairly large exchange (9ft over 8 hours)<\/p>\n