Attersee, 21 april 2014

Today we decided to do a real deep dive. We planned with maximum bottomtimes between 100 and 120m. At 100m we could stay longer, at 120m shorter. Maximum runtime around 2 hours, so 13 minutes-120m was possible.

Diluent 9/66, bailout 6/72 (not best gas, buddy had a 9/70), 18/45 (buddy 16/45), 50/20, 80%.

Then we prepared our rebreathers. Negative passed, possitive test of my rebreather failed. And failed again. What was wrong? I checked the lungs, no problem. Then the problem must be in the scrubber. And we found it, it was a hose to the lid. Took it off, took it on again and now all was ok.

Then we went to 'Ofen'. Nice weather, sunny on the otherside of the lake. We where in the shade of the mountains. And then: ready to dive. I was not nervous, but just a little bit worried that my rb would have problems again. That failure of a controller at 72m was not nice. So during ascent, I was always checking if there was anything wrong. At 75m, still green lighs of the hud. At 80m, all green, no strange things on the handset. The wall was great, sometimes really steep.

Then we reached in 11 minutes the 120m. On my other computer 121,9. So the maximum planned depth. Now the way back.

You only know if a dive was ok when you surfaced safely. With deep dives going down is not the problem, going up and surface safely is the most difficult part.

The way back was long, but so nice. The wall was beautifull. At 82m we see the green shadow of the sun. Wow. Further it is still totally dark. Some old trees are laying on the less steep parts. At 12m the water is 6 degrees again, that feels like it is warm. At 6m it is 8 degrees. We swim all te time around the wall.

We see some nice fish, and after 2 hours we surface. Not cold. The sun is now at our side of the lake too. We did it, 120m, what a depth. And so clear. Wow.

Then putting all stuff again in the car and having a big schnitzel. After lunch I did another skill dive with my student. Another good dive.