Of f to the Races

Well painting is rolling along, but this was another water weekend.
Went out to the Vandenberg and strapped on a tank to help out my friend Kelly do an underwater scooter race.

video clip probably explains it best:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDlHIRyJM58&feature=feedf
It was around the Vandenberg, a big ship sunk in ~150' . The race course was ~halfway down.
The whole thing seemed a little silly to me, but it was fun, and well organized. Its a new "sport", so rules,equipment etc just starting to evolve. Lotta room for drag reduction, whether by body position or constructed body fairings, etc. I'm sorta drawn to the innovation potential. my idea this race was a 45 ahead degree mirror so she could tuck her head but still see forward. only kind of worked--she used a convex mirror, which mounted nicely on the rounded nose and looked great, but the view was too shrunken--hard to use, esp w marginal vis. Kelly won her class anyway.

interesting water changes--out there(~6 miles offshore) the clarity is not about local wind, etc, its all about where the Gulf Stream is. If it come in close enough, the water is clear blue, otherwise, greenish. Sunday the border was right at the wreck-- you could see clearly the demarcation on the surface. We started w green, 20' vis, but then the blue moved in, had maybe 60'? got pretty nice for the race finish and second dive was quite beautiful.




Some spent dive 2 working on lion fish eradication. Seriously.