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DaleC
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Vintage Diving in Canada

Wed Aug 13, 2014 10:03 pm

Our club did it's annual camp and dive at Pavilion Lake last weekend and I took along some of my vintage kit. I dove St72's and a twin 40cuft rig, Hawaiian pack, simple webbing harness, J valves, horse collar single hose and doublehose.

It was a lot of fun observing Microbiolites (calcified bacterial colonies dating 10,000 years+), fish, calcified rocks and logs and very good vis. Both dives I did with the thin wetsuit went below the thermoclines into 46F water but I'm Canadian so it was like bath night back on the prairies :)

Here is a video:

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1eJfyLbzA8[/video]
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Re: Vintage Diving in Canada

Wed Aug 13, 2014 11:06 pm

Thanks for sharing. Enjoyed both the dive video and the music.
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Re: Vintage Diving in Canada

Thu Aug 14, 2014 1:24 am

Dale, looks like u had some VERY good viz! I tip my hat to you diving in a thin wetsuit in 46 degree water. I assume it was Fahrenheit as Celsius would be like 114 F?

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Re: Vintage Diving in Canada

Thu Aug 14, 2014 2:10 pm

Thanks for sharing the video! Have not seen you around here for awhile...Don't be a stranger.
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Re: Vintage Diving in Canada

Thu Aug 14, 2014 2:24 pm

Nicely done! Thanks for putting that up.

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Re: Vintage Diving in Canada

Thu Aug 14, 2014 11:22 pm

Thanks all.
I was quite sidetracked by my fish project, new job and contemplating building a wooden boat for a while but I'm still diving vintage :)
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Re: Vintage Diving in Canada

Fri Aug 15, 2014 9:06 pm

Good to see you Dale :)
Fish project and wooden boat project sound interesting too!
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DaleC
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Re: Vintage Diving in Canada

Tue Sep 02, 2014 10:40 pm

Did another dive at Pavilion Lake this weekend. I wanted to see if a recent rockslide affected the waters.

In all, I covered about a mile of shoreline from my drop off to exit point and combined snorkeling with scuba. At the start of the video I found some underwater springs that fed cold water into the lake (above the thermocline). This caused an underwater river of cold water to flow downslope, defined by algal/fungal growth. Also present are mounds of actively growing sphagnum (peat) moss. Shown at the end are microbiolites, ancient colonies of calcified bacteria.

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4EraGi8pqs[/video].
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