By Marcus L. Barnes (BonaireTalker - Post #38) on Saturday, June 21, 2003 - 3:18 pm: |
Does anyone know the average underwater time from La Dania's Leap to Karpata? Trying to plan the dive hoping to have enough air to continue the dive at Karpata upon arrival from La Dania's Leap versus exiting Karpata as soon as we get there. Suggestions on depth etc. are appreciated. Thanks in advance.
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By Meryl Virga (Supreme BonaireTalker - Post #3250) on Saturday, June 21, 2003 - 8:34 pm: |
I was just the "observer" but I would guess about 30 minutes from entry to exit.... Unless there are turtles!....Bas...are ya out there! He is "the master!"
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By Cecil Berry (Supreme BonaireTalker - Post #2619) on Saturday, June 21, 2003 - 10:36 pm: |
I'd like to know how you are not going into decompression with that setup. I went into decompression twice on a single Al80 and brought back 1200#'s both times. Karpata is quite deep as I remember.
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By Marcus L. Barnes (BonaireTalker - Post #39) on Saturday, June 21, 2003 - 11:00 pm: |
Cecil: Now that I think about it, I see your point. After being in the water for 30 minutes or so enroute to Karpata it will be difficult to dive Karpata to any kind of depth. Probably better off breaking it up into 2 dives with a decent surface interval in between. I dove Karpata once before 2 years ago; I also remember it being quite deep. Meryl, thanks for the input.
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By Daniel Senie (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #252) on Sunday, June 22, 2003 - 12:03 am: |
I'd suggest nitrox would make sense in such a dive plan. Of course that presents you with an additional concern of a maximum depth, but it would provide much more time ad depth.
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By Peter Cabus (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #188) on Sunday, June 22, 2003 - 6:23 am: |
We did La Dania's leap a number of times during our last trip. Our profile:
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By Marcus L. Barnes (BonaireTalker - Post #40) on Sunday, June 22, 2003 - 10:14 am: |
Thanks Peter. Your plan makes sense. After thinking about it some more last night I decided, as you stated above, that the dive could probably be done but we would not be able to go deep at Karpata. My bottom time on Bonaire is usually around 60 minutes so getting to Karpata in a timely manner should not be a problem. I'll just make sure we don't violate our computers and accept whatever depth at Karpata the computer will give me within no decompression limits. Thanks again.
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By Peter Cabus (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #189) on Sunday, June 22, 2003 - 10:24 am: |
Hi Marcus,
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By gregg brewer (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #275) on Monday, June 23, 2003 - 10:22 am: |
Marcus,
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By Leif S (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #196) on Monday, June 23, 2003 - 12:50 pm: |
My wife and I did the Leap drift to Karpate with Bas last June... that would be exactly one year and fortnight ago. (Still suffering PBD! Need another trip!)
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By Cheryl B (BonaireTalker - Post #52) on Monday, June 23, 2003 - 11:04 pm: |
Can someone PLEASE tell me how to find LaDania's leap? We must have driven past it 4 times last year, and I could not distinguish where the entrance might be. I even had the yellow book!
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By gregg brewer (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #277) on Tuesday, June 24, 2003 - 9:10 am: |
Cheryl,
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By Cheryl B (BonaireTalker - Post #54) on Tuesday, June 24, 2003 - 9:40 am: |
Thanks a lot Gregg! I'm printing out your directions, and will be attaching them to my little yellow book. I'll let you know if we found it in about three weeks!
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By Meryl Virga (Supreme BonaireTalker - Post #3261) on Wednesday, June 25, 2003 - 11:13 pm: |
Cheryl if I can find them with the recent move I will post a picture of the enterence..
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By Cheryl B (BonaireTalker - Post #57) on Wednesday, June 25, 2003 - 11:30 pm: |
That would be fabulous, Meryl! Thank you!
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By Marcus L. Barnes (BonaireTalker - Post #47) on Sunday, July 6, 2003 - 10:48 am: |
Thanks Gregg!
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By Meryl Virga (Supreme BonaireTalker - Post #3270) on Monday, July 7, 2003 - 10:58 pm: |
Cheryl...hope you found it! You must be on Bonaire by now....my pictures unfortunatly are still in some box...in the garage somewhere....hope you are enjoying yourself.
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