Friday, March 10, 2006

Deco cave dive in Temple of Doom

Cave dive with Hannes for some more video shooting. And we're lucky, for we're the first ones in today, meaning visibility should be perfect. After carefully lowering the video camera into the water, we splash in ourselves, a 2m jump, do a quick gear check, then slowly descend into Calavera's dark water.

I lay the short line to the Madonna passage's main line, after which we slowly continue along, going right twice at the T's, thus performing a short circuit dive. Having plenty of air left we decide to check out another narrower tunnel too. And just as last time I also get to try out some video shooting. Hannes fully built his housing and lights himself, and the camera glides through the water almost by itself. Nice piece of workmanship indeed.

Bottom time 73', including a short 5' deco stop at 3m. That's two deco dives in a day, so tomorrow I'll be taking it a bit easier again :o) FYI: It's 30°C in the shade.