Jordfall 13/6 2020. Summer heat and leaky neck seals

Hi and ho! 

 This weekend the weather was very much "summer", with high temperatures and clear skies. So me and my buddies decided it was a good time to go out and dive, even if the temperatures in the air was less than ideal for dry suit diving. We also brought with us some newer divers and prospective future buddies.

We went to the Jordfall Marina, as it is easy to get in and out, as well as very short distance between parking and diving. Kitted up and prepared to enter the water.

A truly magnificent specimen of Spiny Starfish.

Dive 1: 

Depth: 16 m, Time: 13 min, Temp: 10 °C

Devonshire cup coral, a small unassuming species that is rather common

As we entered the waters, the cooler temperatures was a welcome respite from the sweltering heat of the air (ok, not that warm, only 26 C in the sun, but it is rather steamy in a drysuit, especially a black one).

We swam out to the cliffs and descended in a orderly fashion. Unfortunately, the dive had to be cut short due to a very leaky neck ring on one of my buddies, so we preformed a free ascent as they were shivering very much. No photos were taken during this dive due to this.

As we got up on land and took a look, it became clear that the neck ring wasn't glued on properly and there was a huge gap, resulting in water flowing into the suit. But such things are fixable 😅

So we took a small surface intervall and waited for the other pair, while my buddy was warming up and trying to dry in the sun.

Dive 2:

Depth: 23 m, Time: 45 min, Temp: 10 °C

Harbour swimming crab, a species hard to photograph due to being skittish

After a short surface interval and changing dive tanks, we decided to go for the second dive. The plan was as before, a max depth of around 20 m, and follow the wall outwards. Said and done, me and my buddy descended in a orderly fashion and followed the wall out. When we descended i discovered that my camera lens had fogged up due to the 16 ° C difference between the water and the air. So the first part of the dive, i couldn't really photograph anything. After a while, the fogging had cleared up, and i could photograph again, which i did.

On this dive, we saw lot's of hydroids, sea anemones and swimming crabs and fish of different kinds, As we got more shallow there was a increase in both gobies and nudibranches.

All in all, it was a very nice dive day, temperatures and other stuff nonwhitstanding.

So until next time! Keep on Swimming 😀

The very common Orange-Brown aeolid :)