Weather good, seas down, its time to dive the Tuggerah. Well that was the plan.....and we all know some plans just don't work out.
We tried for about an hour to hook up on the wreck and just couldn't. There must be a trick to it one day we will learn. We even lost our good anchor, chain and 50m of rope when the prop sliced the rope.

Anyway we thought we would do a training dive to test out out decompression plan for the Tuggerah.

We set up the deco bar at 15m with a tank and regs and 2 x 3lb and 1 x 6lb weights, just in case. We strapped our pony tanks on and went down to 49.4m. We have only dived around the 40-42m mark previously so this was to gain some experience and see how all the time calculate out.

We had also set up a cross over line from the anchor line to the deco bar, There was 30m of rope on this, looped around the anchor rope with a 1lb weight on it.

2.5mins to the bottom, 10mins on the bottom then a slow climb to the cross over line, this gave us a 2.5m deco at 35m while finning until the line went up, then 2mins up to 15m for a 2min deco at 15, we then brought the bar up to 5m for the remaining 15mins.

I watched my computer at all times while ascending and at no time did the "slow" alarm come on. Contrary to what the SDM (Suunto Dive Manager) shows.

We headed back into port hacking and used up the remaining 44bar and our ponies at Shiprock.

Tuggerah (Attempt #1)

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