AOWD nearly finished
Well, that didn’t quite go as planned.
We started our diving course with the deep dive (22 meters) in the Attersee. Boy, it’s freezing down there. 4° Celsius is really cold, especially if you’re not in a drysuit. We only hat wetsuits with ice-jackets, so we were quite happy when we were out of the water again. On our second dive (high altitude diver; diving more than 300m above sealevel; the Attersee is at about 400m or so) we hat some problems, because our ice jackets were too tight and we did breathe too shallow. We emerged from the water with a blinding headache (slight CO2 overdose) and decided that we didn’t want to make our third dive (night dive) that day. The visibility was also rather bad, so I didn’t take any photos.
The next day, we went diving at the Pleschingersee, to do our underwater navigation and search and recovey course. The visibility in this mudhole is next to zero, so it was really funny to try to navigate or to find some 0.5l bottles on the ground. But it was better because the water wasn’t that cold and we went diving without the ice-jackets. We had no problems then.
So now we are nearly fully certified Advanced divers. We will take our night dive sometine next week.