MMM 5/2

Paulicarp · Post by **Paulicarp** » Fri Apr 29, 2011 3:45 pm

MMMy my my, it's almost Monday!

water and breathable compressed gas required, visibility, as usual, is optional.

who's in?

Don't know what MMM is? look here: http://www.nwdiveclub.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=12412

Nwbrewer · Post by **Nwbrewer** » Sun May 01, 2011 7:59 pm

I'm in for dive 1, due to poor planning, in backmount.

Paulicarp · Post by **Paulicarp** » Sun May 01, 2011 9:10 pm

cool- Dive 1 4:00 p.m. splash!

Now who's gonna show for dive 2 at 6:30?

trevorrowe · Post by **trevorrowe** » Sun May 01, 2011 11:17 pm

Darn, I'm going to miss this one.... because I am in MAUI!

renoun · Post by **renoun** » Mon May 02, 2011 1:10 am

I think this Monday is going to be a bit too busy with the new remodel I'm starting.

Nwbrewer · Post by **Nwbrewer** » Mon May 02, 2011 6:39 am

Tides don't look that bad, want to do the clay walls for dive 1?

LCF · Post by **LCF** » Mon May 02, 2011 10:49 am

Oooh -- clay walls! That might be enough to get me and Peter to pack gear . . .

coulterboy · Post by **coulterboy** » Mon May 02, 2011 11:40 am

I'll pass on this one. Gotta be with wife on her bowling party.

Paulicarp · Post by **Paulicarp** » Mon May 02, 2011 1:41 pm

wallz it iz!

Paulicarp · Post by **Paulicarp** » Mon May 02, 2011 8:27 pm

nice dive on the walls- found the BIG gpo. Jake got pics/vid. Peter and Lynn got in right when we were getting out, hopefully they found it too!

LCF · Post by **LCF** » Mon May 02, 2011 9:47 pm

I was very nervous about doing this dive . . . I had done all the research I knew how, and could not for the life of me figure out how Jake thought the currents were good for the site. And then we got there at 4:10, to discover Jake and Pauli were already underwater (no patience, those two) and we weren't even dressed yet. If they were having a good dive a half hour before us, the likelihood we'd have a good dive, too, seemed remote. Not only that, but the wind was blowing, and there were small waves at the shore, and the very shallow viz looked awful. I almost chickened out.

But our friends didn't surface and abort, which suggested the current was at least manageable, and I thought nothing could be quite as bad as the day Kirk and I got in the water at DIW 45 minutes early (and nothing has been, and tonight was no exception) so the worst that was going to happen was that we would get in the water and scrub the dive three minutes later, and make land at the boat launch.

So we tried.. And as we entered, the other team exited, and told us the current wasn't at all bad but the viz was, and that there was an octo in the wall. They were right -- no current to speak of for the first 25 minutes. We swam down over the shallow wall, which I marked at 31 feet for future reference, and down to the deep wall, where we found a scattering of gunnels, an assortment of sea stars, and one large GPO. My camera battery died about 20 minutes into the dive (sad, because that's part of why we were there) but we kept going until the current began to pick up and I got worried, and turned the dive. We swam upslope to 31 feet and headed north, hoping to find the shallow wall, which we never did, and we eventually gave up and swam in. We surfaced to find the wind had picked up, and so had the waves; with Peter's help, I did what I thought was a rather neat job of making it out on my feet.

I do not understand the currents there at all . . . this was a big exchange day, and we dove at the end of the flood but well before the 6 pm or so slack, and we had virtually no current. If someone can explain that, I would be much obliged.

Nwbrewer · Post by **Nwbrewer** » Tue May 03, 2011 5:47 am

Sorry Lynne, if I should have give you guys a call to see if you were just running behind, but I took from your post that you guys were a maybe. At least there were two of you, and it sounds like you got a good dive in anyway! Charge your battery and I'll find another day to get back to the wall in the next week or so.

I never said the currents would be "good" I said "not that bad".

If you look at the admiralty inlet current prediction yesterday, http://www.dairiki.org/tides/daily.php/adm/2011-05-02 you can see that at 1600 the current was supposed to be a ~2kts, but according to Fishnaller, you use the same prediction as for EUP, so you get to add around :45, bringing the current down to around 1.5kts and weakening during the dive. It's been my experience that incoming tides don't cause quite the currents that outgoing tides do there. I wouldn't have tried a 1.5kt prediction if the tide was going out, that's where you wind up crawling upslope. :angry:

I'll hopefully be able to post my video tonight, but that is far and away the biggest octo I've ever seen. Pauli and I had a bit of surface current, and the vis above 20' was pretty ugly, though not as ugly as last week. Below 20' I'd say it was 10-15' most of the time, and current at the wall was almost non-existent. We had a nice 40 minute dive on the wall slowly moving along, checking out all of the little shrimp, gunnels, clams, and pregnant kelp crabs what have made the wall home. We came across the octo in a rather large den, and turned the dive at that point. We did a pretty square profile, with an average depth around 65'. All in all, a great dive! Thanks pauli!

John Rawlings · Post by **John Rawlings** » Tue May 03, 2011 6:54 am

Ahhh...the Mukilteo walls....where I go to calm down with life and get my head together. I'm overjoyed to hear that a GPO has taken up residence - it has been a good long while since that has happened there.

Thanks for the report, and I'm glad that you had good dives!

- John

Paulicarp · Post by **Paulicarp** » Tue May 03, 2011 10:21 am

trevorrowe wrote:Darn, I'm going to miss this one.... because I am in MAUI!

...so how was Maui Monday Madness? Pics or it didn't happen

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