Dolphin Rebreather action.

[Mark Y]

Did some fun dives at Crosby 10/3 - 10/4. We had the place to ourselves Sat., two North Dakota divers on Sun.

Lk. Louise - 94 min., 122 max depth, used 22.5 c.f.
Menomin #2 - 52 min., 98 max depth, used 17 c.f.
Portsmouth - 60 min., 104 max depth, used 29 c.f.

Lk. Louise was alright. Started deep then worked our way up and around the whole lake.

Menomin # 2 had a bleak start. Just faceless muck with occassional branches, etc., then we hit a shear wall. That was really cool. Tough to think of it as a 'wall' compared to reef walls, but in a way, it was better, 'cause it was local.

Portsmouth - couldn't located the pipe so descended along a steep embankment covered with mucky laddened branches. It was black at 80 ft. and cave like at 100 ft. My cannister light worked real well (thanks John J). Very Lovecraftian, shapes just emerged from the blackness. Even the smell of the water managed to make its presence known. Smelled/tasted like swamp gas - Greg said sulfur. A really cool dive.

Lots of dive time left this year, use it wisely!