Diving with D - 10/12/2018

Diving with the Big Easy is always a straightforward affair. You kit up, go into the water and then you dive. Tonight was no different. Except we lost one another about 20 minutes into the dive. The vis wasn't bad, we just couldn't find each other. We both surfaced slowly knowing both of us had bail out gasses and were self sufficient should any air incidents occur.

At the surface we regrouped and continued our dive. Simple.

Testing Stuff - 11/10/2015

With a new Oceanic computer of late I was keen to test the performance of it compared to my other computer. Part of this was take it relatively deep to see how the no deco times compared with my backup. Diving with Jester, we chose St Catherines and headed to the bottom of the reef.

As we went down I kept an eye on both computers. It became clear there was a considerable difference in the conserative behaviour of one versus the other. However, it took me to a lesser dived part of the reef where we found :

• Purple sunstar
• Common sunstar
• Celtic feather star
• Firework anemone 

Really quite spectacular.

We ate some falafel and waited for the sun to go down, for a second dive at night. To be honest aside from a few Pollock and a large lobster we never saw the best of the night life.

Still it was good learning experience.

Purple/Northern Sunstar

Sunstar

Firework Anemone

Langoustine

Bloody Henry

Lobster

Scorpion fish