Dive 053

Date	Jan 9, 2002-04:25 PM
Location:	S.S. Yongala - Coral Sea, Australia
Dive Shop	Mike Ball
Purpose	Recreation
Buddy	Nick & Leonie
Exposure Suit	3mm
Other Equipment	Video - wide angle lens
Weight	12
Viz	40
Max Depth	84
Start Air	2900
End Air	510
EAN	0
Minutes Under	38
Surface Interval	213
Remarks

The current was ripping thru on this dive. We descended on the front again, and worked our way to the back. This direction was pretty much a drift dive. It was nice. I saw a sea snake, which was really cool (seeing as they're deadly). I also saw a decent sized ray at the end of the boat. By decent sized, I think it was about four or five feet across. I still want something a little bigger. Ten feet across would satisfy me.

It was a decent amount of work getting back to the line. The current was pretty fierce. I was also a little uneasy about doing a revearse profile dive. I spent most of this dive around 60 feet, but at the back of the boat I went down to 84, which I shouldn't have done. Stupid me. Anyway, getting back to the line was hard work. When I got back I only had 800psi left. The woman and I were holding onto the line as the mas swam around a little more. I pulled on the fin of the woman and told her I was going up (didn't really want to run out of air, and I didn't know how much longer he would be). I went up and did a 2 minute stop at 30 feet, 3 minutes at 15 feet. I had enough air that I did a 4 minute stop at 8 feet. I was a little ahead of my buddies (didn't really want to leave them) and I had enough air, so I figured the 8 foot stop would be good.

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