Hi and ho!
This weekend, we went to a site we don't go to usually, as it is often rather crowded, the dive site of Fossen camping ground, which lies between Jordfall and Skår in Gullmarsfjorden. The weather this day was very nice and sunny, though not too warm either, so just perfect for drysuit diving. We arrived at the site, paid the entry fee for the camping and parked at the dive site. We then got the gear out of the car, kitted up and made ourselves ready for the first dive of the day.
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| The dive site sign, deep on the bottom |
Dive 1:
Depth: 32 m, Time: 48 min, Temp: 7°C
Me and my buddy waded out into the waters, put on our fins, as it is much easier to do in water. We swam out until we found a decent spot to descend on, and thus we started our dive. We descended in a orderly fashion and started following the bottom structure to the right. As I haven't been here so often, this was a new experience for me, so I didn't quite know what to expect. It turned out to be lots of overhangs and cliff walls where much marine critters could be seen, we continued descending while following the cliff walls until we reached about 30 m, where we reached the maximum depth of this dive, we swam around here for a little bit before I was starting to run low on NDL time and it was time to start going to shallower depths, so we turned around and started swimming back towards the starting point.
We surfaced at 48 minutes, got up, doffed our gear on the benches built for divers and got ready for a surface intervall with snacks and crumb pie.
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| Oaten pipe hydroid (Tubularia indivisa), a beautiful little cnidarian |
Dive 2:
Depth 29m, Time: 36min, Temp: 7 °C
After a good surface intervall in the sun, with crumb-pie and talking (and also a bit of regulator shenanigans) while we waited for another buddy to arrive at the site, we got ready for another dive. As the other buddy had arrived and kitted up at this point, me and my first buddy decided to do a three pair dive. So we took the second buddy and started wading out. We descended in a orderly fashion, though the second buddy was having some troubles descending, which in hindsight should have been the first sign to abort the dive. Well either way. we followed the bottom and plateaus downwards, my first buddy kept an eye on the second one while i spent the dive photographing, like I usually do. As we had been down for a while, I started to run relatively low on no-deco time, and as the second buddy had air as well, while laying a few meters underneath me, I was starting to worry a little bit for their NDL. So I signalled to my first buddy to check Turned out they had like 4 minutes until deco, which is rather bad. Guess that was our second mistake, not communicating on how we were to do the dive. Either way, it was at this time we turned around and started swimming back and upwards to shallower depth, so as to not run into decompression. As we started nearing the shallower part, the second buddy suddenly disappeared, we looked for a bit around us until I spotted them at the surface, turned out they had corked (makes it the third week in a row I've had someone cork). Me and my first buddy quickly ascended to the surface and made sure our buddy was ok, after making sure they were ok, we started swimming towards land. We got onto land, with some lessons learned and things to think about next time.
All in all it was nice day for diving, although i understand why we don't dive here as often, it takes a bit to get here, and during summer, there is just too many people.
So until next time! Keep on swimming!
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| North sea tube anemone (Cerianthus lloydii), a close-up photo. |
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