In our quest to put more hours on our rebreathers, Sam and I dove the stern of the Chester Poling yesterday, a classic new england dive. It was my first good pair of dives on the wreck. The first one was spent trying to figure out my respiratory rate on doubles trying to ‘move the boat’ and the second was aborted because of electronics failure on my rebreather.

Yesterday everything was great, viz was over 35 feet, the water was at 45F, current was moderate and the weather was gorgeous. Dave & Heather’s boat, the Gauntlet is a great vessel to dive from and a great crew.

Here is a yet unedited movie of the dive:

It was by no means a challenging wreck dive but a good solid dive for us to get better on our rebreathers. The dive parameters were:

1. 96ft, 49mins, 44.6deg F

2. 96ft, 46mins, 46.0def F

I was thinking of my dad throughout, he’s the reason I started diving since he had shot so many underwater documentaries in the 60s. He turned 90 yesterday and he’s coming to visit me this week !

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