Another (long!) day of diving on Saturday, I spent the whole day from early morning to late evening with MUUC. We were out with only one boat and people with varying skill levels, so there ended up being quite a few boat trips and dives for different skill levels.
My first dive of the day was a return visit to HMAS Canberra. This time around I was there with a slightly larger group of divers (five total for my group). Conditions were quite nice and surge inside the ship was pretty minimal. We ended up doing quite a few penetrations and spent quite a bit of time inside the wreck. Again we ended the dive at the ship’s bridge followed by some time around the deck structures. As a nice bonus right as we were exiting the wreck a huge school of fish was just passing over us.
During this dive I also did one of the worst rookie mistakes of my diver career. While entering water from the boat I had forgotten to put my dry gloves on. I did end up with some sea water inside my drysuit, and while there was no real risk (I was right next to the boat), it was still quite annoying (and cold!) to spend the rest of the day in a not-so-dry drysuit.
To make my life easier I was only shooting video during this dive. After these two visits I probably have enough material for a short Canberra video. Some of the raw material isn’t that good, but there are definitely some pretty nice sections. Now all I need is some free time to edit the video together…
Second dive of the day was a visit to the J4 Sub at 26 meters with Alex and Gael. While not as impressive wreck as Canberra, it was still a very nice dive. Unfortunately, the surge inside the submarine was quite heavy, so we ended up just peeking inside but didn’t do a proper penetration. After few rounds around the submarine we headed back up.
All in all, a long but also very rewarding day of diving.
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