`Swan' wreck
Dunsborough, Western Australia
13 February 2001
| Surface interval | 23:49 |
| Max depth | 29.9 m |
| Dive time | 42 min |
| Bottom time | 30 min |
| Multilevel: average depth | 16.8 m |
| Safety stop(s) | 7 min @ 5 m |
Wreck Diver Course
Instructor: Geoff Paynter
Nitrox dive - EANx 32%
Buddy: Olaf Backe
Wreck Diver Course with Cape Dive,
Dunsborough.
Dive 3: reel practice.
Practised using a reel and line, on the foredeck. It's not easy to maintain
good tension in the line, control buoyancy,
deal with current, search for good tie-off points, protect your head,
and hold a torch simultaneously.
If you exit in front of the reel diver, it's easy to forget to look
back, and to forget that the reel diver will be
slowed down by having to untie the line.
Wayne tickled a globefish, to its great surprise, and spotted a wobbegong.
More samsonfish, footballers.
Slow ascent to 5 m, good long pause, swim to boat at 3m, surface.
| temp | 21°C |
| rubber | Radiator; 5mm titanium wetsuit; hood; OK |
| weight | 14 lb (8 integ + 5 belt); OK |
| tank | 12.2 l steel |
| BC | SeaQuest Pro QD |
| air consumed | 124 bar |
| RMV | 12.7 l/min |
| Nitrox | |
| gas | EANx 32 |
| MAD | 33.7 m |
| EAD | 24.4 m max, 14.1 ave |
| max ppO2 | 1.28 atm |
| O2 exposure | 25% |