New Jersey Scuba Diving

October 21, 2020

Building Trees

October 21, 2020

I built the tree for the Dive Gear section. All the multi-subject pages have exploded into multiple single-subject pages, and everything then needs to be re-organized. It is very fussy and time-consuming. The worst part was doing the Dive Sites section, because that involved not only organizing things logically, but also geographically. Dive Sites and Artificial Reefs are all tangled up in each other as well, which was fun to sort out. Now up to 1058 pages and posts, with just the Artifacts section left to do.

Later ...

I finished putting in the Artifacts section. The total number of pages now stands at 1163, although I'm sure that will go up as I find things I missed.

Uncategorized, 10/21/20

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Snorkel

Here is an item that is useful in the tropics, but much less so around here. This is because the water here is not nearly as crystal clear as in the tropics, and the depths are often greater. Therefore it is unlikely you will be able to see anything interesting below from the surface.

On a boat dive, a snorkel is totally useless - leave it home. Chances are, the captain and crew will tell you to take it off anyway. The same is generally true for inlet diving where the entry is steep. A snorkel is just one extra thing to get tangled up, and you will probably have enough of that already. A snorkel might be useful in a surface swim from the beach out to a close-in dive site, if it is a good one with purge valve or a dry valve to keep the water out entirely. Even then, you are better off doing a backstroke out to the site, with your head out of the water so you can navigate by landmarks, or an underwater swim if the currents are favorable.

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