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Weekend Dives 7/18-7/19
DivingFirefighter - 7/19/2009 10:26 PM
Hey everyone! I did my certification dives for AOW this weekend. Five dives in all! I was a great weekend, with lots of firsts! Saturday we did navigation, including using a compass, at one point ended up with ZERO vis and still managed to come back exactly as planned! We also ran some basic search and recovery patterns, U-Pattern, expanding square pattern, and rope circle pattern. Managed to perform all of them will out getting lost even though we had 0-3 FT vis the whole time. Then we had an e...