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Logbook Scuba Dive # 330 - San Francisco Maru

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Logbook Scuba Dive # 330 - San Francisco Maru
Date: Entry Time: Dive Time: Max. Depth:
Tue, 10-May-2011 09:28:00 55 minutes 55.1 metres
Dive Location: City / Island:
San Francisco Maru 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:
Laurent Ailleres, Peter Chew
Dive Details:
Entry: Boat Name:  
Boat -  
Start PG: Entry Time: Exit Time: End PG:
A 09:28:00 10:23:00 -
Altitude: Rep. Dive: Surface Interval:  
0 m No 17:23  
Max. Depth:     Avg. Depth:
55.1 metres     20.48  m
  Dive Time: Deco. Dive:
  55 minutes Yes
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 Good - -  
Equipment:
Weight: Dive Suit: Dive Computer:
0 kg Thermalskin Suunto HelO2
Equipment used on this dive:
Apeks XTX200 Regulator - Stage 2 - Nitrox | Apeks XTX200 Regulator - Twin Primary | Apeks XTX200 Regulator - Twin Secondary | Apollo Bio-Fin Pro | Aropec Mesh Dive Gear Duffle Bag | Buddy Surface Marker Buoy SMBCi - Self Inflating | Green Force 1.5 metre Umbilical | Green Force Flexi IV Battery Pack | Green Force Flexi IV Tank Connector | Green Force Goodman Handle - HID 150F | Green Force HID 150F Lighthead | Halcyon Titanium Knife Sheath - Tech | Kent Tooling Ratchet Reel - 40 metres | Miflex Thin-Line Oxygen SPG - Stage 2 | Northern Diver KN14 Titanium Dive Knife - Tech | Northern Diver Superstretch 2mm Neoprene Gloves | Northern Diver Thermalskin | OMS Aluminium Backplate - Tech | OMS Comfort Harness II | OMS Dual Bladder, Banded Wing - Tech | OMS Silicone Necklace Secondary - Tech | OMS Submersible Pressure Gauge | OMS VEGA K2 LED Flashlight | Performance Diver Multi Purpose Boots | Sonar Explorer Black Silicone Mask - Primary | Suunto HelO2 Dive Computer | Suunto Transmitter - Tech | 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 Twin Cylinders 20 litres 200 bar Open Circuit (OC) Open Circuit (OC)
O2: He: Min. PPO2: Max. PPO2:
21% 0% - 1.4 bar
EAN 21 EAN 21 MOD: EAD: END:
56.6 m 56.6 m 56.6 m
Start Pressure: End Pressure: Diff. Pressure:  
207 bar 87 bar 120 bar  
Avg. Depth: SAC Rate:    
- -    

Cylinder Set #2
Cylinder Type: Cylinder Size: Working Pressure: Supply Type:
Alumimium Single Cylinder 11 litres 200 bar Open Circuit (OC) Open Circuit (OC)
O2: He: Min. PPO2: Max. PPO2:
60% 0% 0.19 bar 1.6 bar
EAN 60 EAN 60 MOD: EAD: END:
16.6 m 3.5 m 16.6 m
Start Pressure: End Pressure: Diff. Pressure:  
200 bar - -  
Avg. Depth: SAC Rate:    
- -    

Avg. Depth: SAC Rate:    
20.48  m 14.32 litres/min    
Gas Mixture:
Air (O2=21%) Nitrox 60% - Stage 1 (O2=60%)
Up at 5 am. Went and tried to get an Internet connection in the reception area, but it wasn't working. Eggs benedict for breakfast at 6:30 am, and then went to shop for more t-shirts at the Blue Lagoon Dive Shop. Then back to the room and change.

Boat Captain: Ansauo Renis
Dive Guide: Tryvin Aisek

Tuesday morning, 10 May 2011 - San Francisco Maru.

I analysed the gas in my eleven litre aluminium stage cylinder: 200 bar of EAN60. Peter Fear wasn't joining us because of head cold and sinus issues. So it was just Peter Chew, Laurent Ailleres, yours truly and the boat crew aboard as we headed out at 9 a.m. to the San Francisco Maru.

The San Francisco Maru is a medium-large, old five hold freighter.

Tonnage: 5,864. Length: 117.3 metres. Beam: 15.5 metres.
Launched: 1 March 1919.

She sustained very heavy damage from a close bomb miss on the port side and sank quickly by the stern.

Another boat was already on the dive site. Tryvin gave us an excellent dive briefing and we agreed on a dive plan. We entered the water shortly after those on the other dive boat.

We headed down to the bow and checked out the gun on the forecastle. We then worked our way along the port side, towards the bridge and came across a battle tank as deck cargo. There are two more tanks on the starboard side.

In hold two between the tanks on the deck are two large tanker trucks. There is also a large radial aircraft engine and a number of 50 pound aerial bombs, standing on their tips with the tail fins exposed.
As we went along a companionway, Tryvin pointed out a shark off the port side. Hold 4 contains the remains of two large trucks, and the tween decks are filled with ammunition boxes. The shells are of 3 and 4 inch calibre. Hold 5 contains a large number of torpedo bodies scattered all about.

As we headed back to the bow along the starboard side I took great delight in watching a very graceful eagle ray making it way in the same direction off of the starboard side.

I switched to the EAN60 stage gas and completed my deep, deco and safety stops. This was a decompression dive of 55 minutes with a maximum depth of 55 metres.

With everyone back aboard the dive boat, we headed back to the Blue Lagoon Dive Shop.
 
 

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