Hi and ho!
This week we went to Chalmers Diving Club once again to "Gullmarsfjorden's best wall dive site ", Ormestad. This time it had rained quite much the days before, so the road down to the dive site was muddy to say the least. Once we got to the dive site and loaded off all the gear, it was time to start getting ready for the first dive.
Dive 1 :
Time: 40 min. Max depth: 22 m Temp: 5°C
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| Trubbstjärtat långebarn |
We prepared and stepped into the water. When my dive buddy and I went down, a blood vessel burst in my buddy's nose, so we had to end the dive. Once up on the surface we did a quick reorganization, my dive buddy swam ashore and I went down with another dive couple. In the new dive pair we went down in regular order and started swimming outwards and downwards. This day the visibility was pretty good throughout the water column, with plenty of light a good distance down, totally opposite conditions to last week. Since before us there had been a course with Re-breather on the dive site, the bottom was quite upset at some places. It became bad with photos this dive when a combination of "silt" in the water column and some other stuff, which made me focus more on other things.
After we finished the dive we went up and then had lunch consisting of sausages with buns.
After we finished the dive we went up and then had lunch consisting of sausages with buns.
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| Sea-loch anemone |
Dive 2:
Time 34 min . Max depth 27 m. Temp 5-7 °C
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| Peacock pipe worm |
After eating and resting ourselves during the surface interval, we set ourselves up for today's second dive. Although it was closer to 5 in the afternoon, it was still bright outside. That said and done, we went in and decided to dive along the wall that lies to the west at Ormestad, as this is the best wall in all of the Gullmar fjord. The wall starts shallow and goes quite vertically down to 80-90m depth, so you have to keep track of how to stay neutral in the water. When we reached the wall we found that it was flowing, so we just floated with the current for a while. During this dive we saw a lot of Peacock Pipe Worm, Sea-loch anemones and other trapped animals. Unfortunately, the battery in my camera ran out in the middle of the dive, so there were not too many pictures this dive either.
When we went up I tried to shoot Surface Marker Buoy, which could have gone better because my lips were just too cold to be able to stop tight against the blow nozzle, but eventually I managed to inflate it.
So until next time, keep on swimming
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| Reteporella beaniana - A bryozoan |
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