Logbook Scuba Dive # 323 - IJN Sutsuki - Patrol Boat 34

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Date:	Entry Time:	Dive Time:	Max. Depth:
Sat, 07-May-2011	16:05:00	6 minutes	6.8 metres
Dive Location:		City / Island:
IJN Sutsuki - Patrol Boat 34		Chuuk Lagoon (Truk Lagoon)
Country:		Dive Master:
Federated States of Micronesia		Tryvin Aisek
Dive Centre:		Dive Trip:
Blue Lagoon Dive Resort		Chuuk Lagoon - May 2011
Buddy/Buddies:
Solo
Dive Details:
Entry:	Boat Name:
Boat	-
Start PG:	Entry Time:	Exit Time:	End PG:
-	16:05:00	16:11:00	-
Altitude:	Rep. Dive:	Surface Interval:
0 m	Yes	00:22
Max. Depth:			Avg. Depth:
6.8 metres			3.76 m
	Dive Time:		Deco. Dive:
	6 minutes		No
Conditions:
Weather:	Air Temp.:	Water Temp.:
Clear	30 °C	30 °C
Water:	Waves:	Current:
Salt	No Waves	No Current
Visibility:	Horizontal Vis.:	Vertical Vis.:
Good	-	-
Equipment:
Weight:	Dive Suit:	Dive Computer:
2 kg	Thermalskin	Suunto HelO2
Equipment used on this dive:
Apollo Bio-Fin Pro \| Aropec Mesh Dive Gear Duffle Bag \| Northern Diver Thermalskin \| Performance Diver Multi Purpose Boots \| Sonar Explorer Black Silicone Mask - Primary \| Suunto HelO2 Dive Computer \| Suunto Vytec DS Dive Computer \| Waterborne Safety Strap - HelO2 \| Waterborne Safety Strap - Vytec

Cylinder Set #1
Cylinder Type:	Cylinder Size:	Working Pressure:	Supply Type:
Alumimium	11 litres	200 bar	Open Circuit (OC)
O2:	He:	Min. PPO2:	Max. PPO2:
61%	0%	-	1.6 bar
EAN 61	MOD:	EAD:	END:
EAN 61	16.2 m	3.0 m	16.2 m
Start Pressure:	End Pressure:	Diff. Pressure:
150 bar	120 bar	30 bar
Avg. Depth:	SAC Rate:
-	-

Avg. Depth:	SAC Rate:
3.76 m	39.96 litres/min
Gas Mixture:
Nitrox 61% - Stage 1 (O2=61%)

SUBCHASER/GUNBOAT We headed over to the Subchaser/Gunboat for a snorkel. I didn't have a snorkel with me, so I put on my weight harness with 2 kg of lead (which turned out to be not enough), grabbed an eleven litre aluminium stage cylinder with EAN60 in it, my mask and fins and went over the side. Being too buoyant, it was a bit difficult getting down to 5 metres and staying down. Grabbing on helped. Thus I had some fun taking a brief look around for 6 minutes with a maximum depth of 7 metres. With everyone back aboard after the snorkelling, we headed back to the Blue Lagoon Dive Shop. Dinner at the Truk Blue Lagoon Resort was a BBQ night. What a disaster. Somehow the meat and baked potato were colder than the air temperature. Mind you, if I'd waited for the entertainment to finish before starting on my steak, it might have warmed up a bit. Phillip and I decided to skip the set dessert and instead headed into the restaurant for a wider selection from the dinner menu. Yes, it seems it is possible to be served banana pancakes without a banana being involved in the process of preparing the dish. Still, the banana-less pancakes were delicious and I was in my room and asleep by 8:30 p.m. THE RESORT AND DIVING ROUTINE And so I settled into the leisurely regime of the place. Up at 6 a.m. Sit down for breakfast at 6:30 a.m. Head out for the first dive of the day at 8:30 to 9:00 a.m. Sit down for lunch at 11 a.m. Back out to dive at 2 p.m. A snorkel/dive after the second main dive of the day. Sit down for dinner at 6:30 p.m. Asleep in bed by 9 p.m. Before and after dinner, some people would party at the resort's bar. At other times some people would be seen in the resort's reception area trying to get an Internet connection to the outside world. The problem is, 5 to 10 people trying to share a dial-up Internet connection really doesn't work very well. People would groan as someone else came into the room holding their smartphone or laptop computer. They knew their share of the already poor Internet bandwidth was about to get even worse. A group of about 8 divers in our party organised a night dive one night. I passed on it as I'd already done two long and deep dives that day.

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