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Divers approaching the bow of the U-2511 ; torpedo tubes visible in the left hand side of the picture (beneath the fish!)
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~lauriek Aug 3, 2010
Nice shot, loos like a great dive. Jealous much :)
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~ukwreckdiver Aug 3, 2010  Hobbyist Photographer
It definitely ranks up in the top 5 dives I've ever done, that much is definite :)
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~lauriek Aug 4, 2010
2 of my favs would have to be the Yongala wreck and the President Coolidge.
Do you use a rebreather ??
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~ukwreckdiver Aug 4, 2010  Hobbyist Photographer
Both of which are reputed to be cracking dives :) I've never dived either, but friends have, and assure me they're worth the effort....

Yup, I use an AP Inspiration CCR, have been for 2 years now, I think - how about yourself?
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~lauriek Aug 7, 2010
Yeah, both awesome dive but totally different. You aren't allowed to penetrate the yongala, but the marine life and corals are on steroids, so much action. The coolidge I did 14 dives on and penetrated pretty much the entire wreck, it's HUGE, the vis is excellent too.

I was trained on an inspiration, but currently dive a homebuilt. It's based on a Drager Atlantis, but I've converted it into a CCR. I designed my own electronics and wrote the software, they not only manage setpoint but calculate deco also. The software is flash upgradeable so I can modify it whenever necessary. It also logs dive parameters to a flash chip so that if anything bad ever happens it can be downloaded later.
I started diving r/b in 2000.
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~ukwreckdiver Aug 9, 2010  Hobbyist Photographer
Really? Why aren't you allowed to penetrate the Yongala? Is that a safety thing or to try and preserve the wreck structure?

Sounds like you're way ahead of me in the R/B stuff ; I've only been diving mine for a couple of years and probably still have lots to learn! I can certainly see the appeal of making your own though, a friend and I did some design work years ago but never got round to making anything, he went and got a KISS and I stuck with OC for a while. I'm now on the Inspo with a Deep Pursuit head, nice bit of kit :) As a software developer I think I'd personally steer clear of writing something that my life depends on ;)
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~lauriek Aug 9, 2010
They do that to preserve the wreck, the corals have done a great job in stopping it disintegrating. They have a rule that your bubbles aren't allowed to touch the wreck. A few years ago a couple of Americans penetrated it on r/b and got caught, they had to go to court and were charged.

I've not been doing as much diving as I'd like to over the last couple of years, my photography has taken over my life, although I like shooting girls underwater, there's a few pix in my gallery.

What's the "Deep Pursuit" head ?? Who makes that ???

Lets just say that when you're writing code that your life depends on, it makes you inclined to do some very serious debugging.
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~ukwreckdiver Aug 10, 2010  Hobbyist Photographer
Sounds somewhat draconian - hard to stop your bubbles hitting the wreck, surely? What if the current is running a bit? Still, I can understand the motivation, but its going to collapse eventually... I think there's a similar 'rule' on the Britannic, not that many people can actually dive that because of (a) the depth and (b) the paperwork etc required...

I have your gallery open in a tab ; just need to find time to spend some quality time going through it :)

Deep Pursuit head is made by a UK company called 'Narked@90' ; just replaces the original Inspo head and has Shearwater controller and HUD...

[link] (don't ask why its not the main N@90 site, I have no idea!)

And yes, I guess you would run some serious test/debug cycles on such software :D
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