OT; So that's why my watch budget keeps disappearing...

[Tim.]

Well...that MK III will have to wait. I blew the watch budget on some more dive equipment... again...





























20241009_102759 by Hank Blanc, on Flickr

Excellent Hank, congrats!

[watch carefully]

... I wanted it specifically to take to the bottom of the ocean.

And yet, you bought one in Titanium instead of something heavy?



Just kidding, of course. I'm intrigued by the Ti construction...I cannot recall ever owning a Titanium watch.

[Henry Krinkle]

Excellent Hank, congrats!

Cheers Tim!

[Henry Krinkle]

And yet, you bought one in Titanium instead of something heavy?



Just kidding, of course. I'm intrigued by the Ti construction...I cannot recall ever owning a Titanium watch.

You raise a valid point, though. There's also a valid explanation. I don't float well. I am close to neutrally bouyant at the best of times. This got me to thinking. I started wearing my Whitby about the same time I switched from full foot fins, to dive boots and open fins. This made my legs more bouyant and took some getting used to, but I still experience some abnormal roll in stronger currents and I am just now wondering if that isn't at least partially that great hunk of steel hanging off one corner...

When I was doing my original training one of the skills I learned was a weight dump. It's done in a fairly shallow section of a swimming pool. We all sat on the bottom in less than ten feet of water. One at a time the instructor signals to a diver, who then drops their weight and rapidly ascends to the surface. When it is found they are safe, the next one goes. The first one in our group was this young woman in Uni who weighed about 90 pounds and was apparently made of balsa wood. She actually breeched the surface she shot up so fast. Everyone else takes their turn and rises with varying speeds, but all are pretty quick. I warned Derek, the instructor not too expect much. He signals, I pull my weight pouches and start drifting up ever so slowly, still sitting crosslegged. I looked more like a yogi levitating than I did a diver without weights.