The Last Day

For all of my blogs thus far I have spoke about things that we had already done but today I will write about what we will be doing. Today will be our final day of diving. Since we will be flying out tomorrow afternoon we will only be diving for half of the day and will only be getting one dive in. We are scheduled to head out to Q Cove to dive a wreck site. This is a sad day because, though we are excited to be getting home, we just got to spend the past six weeks diving nearly everyday on great dive sites. We got to build wood boxes, put together pipe flanges, climb inside sunken Destroyers and generally have a lifetime experience diving.

Let us look on the bright side though, we are certified divers! We know a lot of knots! We got to see lots of cool animals everyday! We got to eat great fish and chips! We had fun!

*To all you at OCC, we will see you on Monday.

Underwater Dredging

My last official project as a student was underwater dredging. Divesafe has a custom made low power underwater dredger which uses compressed air from their low pressure compressor to create a siphon. With this siphon one can dig trenches, search for lost or buried items, clean out fish pens or a variety of other underwater applications. For our diving operation we needed two divers to operate this dredger. One diver would be maneuvering the underwater dredger and the other diver would be holding down the top of the siphon so that it would not be directly perpendicular with the seabed. This was necessary because if the siphon was perpendicular all the silt and gravel it was pulling up would come showering straight down on top of us.

Our mission was to search for anything of value. I was able to find a calculator and a pair of safety goggles. It is amusing those things someone might find useless and just throw into the ocean becomes a ‘find’ when found underwater. This was a really enjoyable project and I could have stayed under for hours searching my locker (Davie Jones’ Locker).