Hey there guys, sorry I have been really busy and haven't posted in a long time. On June 30th we went on our second trip to Pohang. This time we went with did a AOW course and we also worked on more of my DM course. Also on this trip Rachel also finished her DM course.
We got there around noon and we got our gear set up. We got in the boat around 12:30pm and then we got in the boat. Our first dive I helped out Jen. She was guiding our dive and I was supporting her. We went to the new shallow reef and just swam around with some AOW students. We went down around 15m (49.2ft). The water temperature was around 18C (64.4F). While on the dive we saw a lot of fish and a lot of new soft coral. The visibility was about 14m (45.93ft), which really good for this time of year. We were down there for around 34mins. We did our 3min safety stop and then got on the boat and headed back.
During our surface interval at the docks we changed groups. I was put in charge of the fun divers and one of the Korean students. So it was Per and Chang Woo in my group. I gave them the dive briefing on the Cube Reef and we were all at the understanding on what to do on the dive. Well we all got into the boat and headed out. While on the boat the boat captains for the boats were arguing about where the Cube Reef was. They finally found it or so they thought and they told us to drop in. So we all got into the water, and I signalled to the group to go down. We started to go down and there seemed to be no problems. Well around 5m (16.4ft) Chang Woo stopped descending. I signalled to him and he started to swim down. Well we got down around 29.4m (96.45ft) and started to swim towards what I thought was the reef. Well we made it about 10m (32.8ft) and I looked around and I couldn't find Chang Woo. That was a bad thing considering the visibility at that depth was around 10m (32.8ft). I signalled to Per and he told me to look up and there Chang Woo was about 6m (19.68ft) above us. I swam up to him and brought him down. Well as we got down there was a fishing net running across the bottom, well he got tangled up in it and started to panic. I had to push him down to the ground and Per held onto him. I tore off the net from his fins. He calmed down, but Chang Woo started to signal up. I shook my head no, but he still signalled up. I looked at his computer and things were fine, but he wanted to go up. So after about a minute of just sitting there we started to ascend. We did our safety stop and during it Chang Woo tried to inflate my BCD. I had to smack his hand away from it, and I held him while Per held his legs so he wouldn't swim up. We were down there around 14mins. Well after the stop we surfaced and Chang Woo immediately took off his mask and spit out his regulator. The waves were picking up and Chang Woo was trying to talk while swallowing a lot of salt water. I told him to put his regulator in his mouth and not to start speaking again. Well I got in the boat and so did Per. We dragged Chang Woo into the boat. Once in the boat he started to cry and throw salt water up. He apologized to us, and we asked him why he wanted to go up and he told us it was because it was his masked started to fog... Well Per didn't show much anger, but I was a little upset with him. Well we had to wait around 15mins for the rest of the groups to surface. Well people started to get into the boat, and we all took off to the dock.
Once we got on the dock we started to celebrate Rachel finishing her DM course. I also talked to Mr. Cha about Chang Woo. Come to find out that Chang Woo had never done a deep dive, but some how he got certified as an AOW diver from his old dive school. So taking him down to that depth just scared him. Anyways, after I told him what happened with Chang Woo we started to party. The party went into the wee hours of the night.
The next morning we got up to Jen making her breakfast burritos again. They were a lot better than eating ramen. Well we got ready to go into the water again for the morning dive. This time I was in charge of an AOW group. I helped them on their underwater navigation skills. Well went out to the shallow reef again, and got in. We went down around 12m (39.37ft), and we worked on the navigation skills. We did a square and reciprocal lines. After we got those down we just swam around. It was really nice swimming around with the schools of fish that were around. There were also some thermoclines. The temperature at 12m (39.37ft) was 15C (59F) and around 8m (26.24ft) it was around 21C (69.8ft). The dive was around 36mins long and when we were done we got back in the boat and headed back.
When we got back to the dock the weather had gotten really sunny and hot out. Well on this dive I was in charge of the fun divers, but there were no fun divers for me to take care of. So I tagged along with Drew and the other AOW students. For this dive we went and worked on Peak Performance Buoyancy. Well our group dropped into the water, and we went down around 23.6m (77.42ft) we swam around and worked on hovering underwater. Well after we worked on that, we swam around and saw a ship wreck. We were down there around 28mins, and we sawa lot of cool things. We also saw a lot of fish while swimming around. Well we all got low on air and we all went up to the surface. We got back in the boat and we headed back.
Once we got back to the dock we had a nice lunch and we hung out while the gear dried off. We did our log books and we talked about how things went over the weekend. After a few hours we packed up all of the gear and we got into the vans and headed back. Overall the trip went really well and I am very proud of Rachel for finishing her DM course.
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