Birthday Dive! Celebrating 100 Logged dives!!

Monday, May 21 – 2007
13:00 – 14:30
Start: 13:00
Roads: Dry / Clear
Surface Visibility: 24km
Visibility at depth: 30m
Temp (air): +23C
Temp (at depth): +10C
Location: East Main Street Bridge, Welland
Vehicle: Suburban
Weather: Bright and Sunny
Water Conditions: Calm
Divers: Tori & Wolf
Plan: Birthday Dive for Wolf – Dive #100!

We packed up and headed out to the East Main Street Bridge in Welland, Ontario to do my 100th logged dive which also happens to fall on my 31st birthday. 100 Logged dives is a milestone in your diving career as it is supposed to be when everything comes together and makes you a more firm diver. I passed 100 dives many moons ago but now it is official. Unfortunately during my teen years I dived with people who used to laugh when I kept records and as a result dove for many years without a logbook.

More importantly we arrived around 12:0hrs and parked on King street and struggled into our dive gear and headed to the edge of the water which has a nice steel wharf to finish getting our gear on. As I always to do protect her damaged ankle I assembled all of her gear then took it to the waters edge. I then helped Tori kit up then she swam out to the bridge pylon to wait for me. We descended to 8m and swam northbound along the bank at a depth of 12m. We saw quite a few shopping carts, bicycles, parts of equipment and other rubbish. Tori had no real problems on this dive which is her 58th logged dive. There were lots of gobies all over the bottom. As I only had ½ tank of air we couldn’t dive very long. I used the large steel 180cu and my Ag mask. It was a great dive on a great and beautiful day. Albeit a little strange diving in the middle of a city.

After the dive we spent some time on the east riverbank and relaxed and filled out our dive logs. Christine came with us and brought Lupis so he could spend the day out and get some fresh air.