Wednesday Night dive night took us to Bristol Lake. With my success last week, I could only feel that this week was only going to bring greater treasure finds! Take a guess at how this ends. My greatest find of the night turned into being cold water. Maybe it was the overcast skies, the rain, or just bad luck picking a path, but we found nothing! I don't think I ever have to dive Bristol Lake again it was that uninteresting, it was simply a vast nothingness that reminded me a prime time tv.
It turned out that it was guess the average dive time of all the divers and win the pot (everybody chipped in a dollar). I picked 43 minutes as my time. 18 minutes into our dive I was already frozen because I found the 46 degree water and I knew it wouldn't fly with Becca that we'd end the dive that quickly, so I navigated us back to shallow water and normal temperatures. We ended with our dives at 57 minutes, both knowing that we had to bump up our time to help our chances of winning the pot. Turns out the winning time was 42 minutes! If we would have stayed down a few minutes longer, we could have walked away a whopping $12 richer.
The most memorable event and our learning experience from this dive, pay attention to where you enter the water! It was raining hard when we got in the water and though I did set my compass heading before going down, when we came up, we surfaced a couple hundred feet away from the boat lunch we started at and it was a very odd feeling having no idea where in the lake "home" was.
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