Twin Cities dive Apr 16 or 17?

[Indigo Blues]

First off thanks to all - I had a great time diving with you guys and hope to dive with you again! I dove with Matt, (speleophysics). Again thanks Matt for the use of the extra weight - even though I took a tad to much and you didn't take enough. Mermaid, I did my diving wet with my 7/5 jumpsuit and a 2mm shorty on top of that, with 6.5mm hood, 5mm boots and 5mmm gloves. I was comfortable until the last 10 minutes of our dive and then it was my fingers that got cold. The rest of me was fine.

I had some leaking in my primary reg and when I got to Scuba Center to get my tank refilled, I had John look at it. He found the exhaust valve was poked in a very little - hence letting a little water in at the end of a breath. John took it apart and fixed it for me -thanks John! This was a checkout dive as I had not used any of this gear until today. I was happy with overall.

Vis was best to the right side and got worse the deeper we went. There were times when I looked away from Matt and all of a sudden he disappeared in the bad viz. I had a hard time getting neutral buoyancy due to the excess weight. I found an old style Pepsi can and a ice fishing skimmer. Matt and I saw only one fish - a huge bass. Matt said the coldest temp on this computer was 40.

This was my first time diving Perch. Nice lake, combined with good diving and good companions - every day should be like this!