My 30 min dive that had a few problems.

[Matt the Aquaman]

Thought I would share with all of you that I did a 30 min, dive in the pool yesterday! I was face down for 1 min or so. I was under about 5 feet. I wanted to do an hour but there was one problem after another. My dive instructor friend said that dive was over because of to many problems. The double limb circuit has two tubes and one tubing has an exaltation valve at the end of the tube. Two clear pressure lines coming from the vent to the exaltation valve. The vent and the exaltation valve stays above water. On the end of one of the tube and the other one tubing is connected to the vent and both hock up to the y adaptor on the dry suit. There is a connector inside my suit that connects to the trach. The tubing is 8 feet long, they are two 4 foot tubing hocked together to make it 8 feet. The problem was that on of the 8 foot tubing with 4 footers looked bad and coming apart and I had only 2 foot sections and I feel after putting to many breaks in the circuit problem. When I was face down I was not getting the air flow I needed.

This time I was sporting my new DUI hood my Neptune. It worked ok but next time I need my FFM over my chin better. I also used the dry glove system, with three-finger mitts. I really liked them. They kept my hands just right.

I didn’t blow up like a hot air balloon today; we put a new connector on the inside of my suit! No air leaks lol. My dry suit worked great, like always.

Next dive well be an hour and hopefully no problems. I guess one can’t have perfect dives all the time.

Here’s a link to some new photos I added of my dive today… http://matt55125.tripod.com/scuba/

Take care everyone and safe diving!
Matt

[Reikimaster]

Hi Matt,

Saw your post the other day and was well impressed, keep diving, keep posting and keep proving that everything is possible when you set your mind to it.

Cheers

Steve

[Scuba Dub]

Nice One Matt! If it was easy, everyone would be doing it ;-)
Glad to hear things are progressing for you.
Looking forward to your next post,
Gav

[markymark]

Brilliant pics,keep then coming!

[Buoyant Babe]

Well done Matt - keep trying - and keep posting so we can see your progress!

Love Hxxx

[zepp]

I have just been on your website http://www.scubadivingdream.com/ .Just goes to show that with lots of dedication and some help, most things are possible. We have a member of our club who lost the use of his legs in a motorcycle accident last year, who is determined to get back in the water.
Thank you for sharing the pics with us.

[Steve S]

Hi Matt,

great post and pics I hope your next wet goes exactly as you want it to.

Keep doing what you are doing, you are definitely an inspiration to others.

Safe diving,
Steve

[Matt the Aquaman]

Thanks everyone for the great words and support. I have learned when you have problems to abort. I can’t have a perfect dive all the time. It sucks when you get all your gear on and have to abort the dive. It does happen to every one. I well keep you all posted. I’m glad you all enjoyed the pics.

I'm a test pilot, and well have problems but to learn from them and fix the problem and move on. The 60 minute dive well be coming on December 9th. The local CBS news channel well be filming me that day. I well have time to get every thing together and working good.

Take care all Matt.

[Finless]

Matt,

Sorry about the problems on your last effort.

Saw your write up in Dver mag (Dec issue). I don't think you should give so much free advertising to the Ocean Reef Neptune II - we don't want all the plebs and chavs to start using them too!!

Bryan

[Pen Simon]

Originally Posted by roadrunnermatt

The 60 minute dive well be coming on December 9th. The local CBS news channel well be filming me that day.

Lisa Kiava, one of the news team from WCCO and her husband Tim are personal friends of mine - Tim like me, is a tv cameraman and they have both visited me in England.

I shall mail them and see if its Lisa covering your story.

Good luck with it!!