🎓 Doc Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@qoto.org

Sooooo excited about my first deco dive in 3 years tomorrow! And on the anniversary of my certification no less..... cant wait. I did my plan and looking like something like 40 minutes bottom time at 130 feet.

Tomorrows dive is going to be 130 feet / 40 meters, air back gas, with 100% and 50% pony deco gases, no travel gas. Going to shoot for about 15 minute bottom time. First deco dive in years and its actually the anniversary of the day i got my full trimix certification. So very important day for me.

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Here is the video of yesterdays dive with the **giant** Hawksbill sea turtle at 0:30 and again at 8:00 (the 8:00 is more interesting so watch it all the way through). If there is one video you check out it should be this one, I very rarely see sea turtles anywhere near this size, he must be close to 100 years old.

Video: https://video.qoto.org/videos/watch/8d0a91f0-e1f1-40ef-bdf7-c9634ba93e05

Dive stats:
https://connect.garmin.com/modern/activity/8086147899

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QT: https://video.qoto.org/videos/watch/8d0a91f0-e1f1-40ef-bdf7-c9634ba93e05

I've been going a little overboard on my dives lately using three seperate dive computers. Worse yet they each use three different algorithms:

My Shearwater Petrel 2 uses VPM+GF (Varying Permiability Model + Gradient Facor)

My Suunto EON Steel uses Suunto's Fused RGBM (Reduced Gradient Bubble Model)

My Garmin Descent Mk2 uses Buhlman algorithm.

You might ask how i reconcile all three when they give different dive plans... simple.. I just use the deepest ceiling availible to me at the time and never violate any of them. Makes for an ultra conservative dive, as I set all of them with high conservatism, but I like that.

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Some more highlights from the video I took on today's dive. Video coming soon.

In thebelow pictures we have a Peacock Flounder (they change color), A Trumpet Fish, a school of Pennant Coralfish (Heniochus-acuminatus), and a Chelidonura livida.

Dive stats:
https://connect.garmin.com/modern/activity/8086147899

#SCUBA #Dive #Diving #Egypt #SharmElSheikh #middleeast #redsea

I will share the other pictures from my dive in the next post. But this ancient absolutely massive Hawksbill Sea Turtle deserves its own post. This guy was probably about 1.8 meters long and he didn't even react when I got super close to film him munching down. It is 1000% cooler in the video I'll be uploading soon.

Dive stats:
https://connect.garmin.com/modern/activity/8086147899

#SCUBA #Dive #Diving #Egypt #SharmElSheikh #MiddleEast #Turtle #SeaTurtle

Spotted a tiny Chelidonura livida on todays dive. Pics and video coming soon!

Decided to skip diving tomorrow to heal up a bit. Day after tomorrow im doing a deco dive! So stoked.

Holy hell do i have a treat for you guys from todays dive (will upload soon). There was an absolutely humungus Hawksbill Sea turtle on todays dive. He must have been close to 100 years old. He was just chilling on the sea floor eating some sea grass and he let me get as close as i wanted (i tried to keep a bit of distance out of respect). But yea i got some amazing video of him up close!

For now ill just share my dive profile (link below) and a picture of my tissue saturation an hour after dive is attached.

https://connect.garmin.com/modern/activity/8086147899

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Here is yesterdays dive with an attempt at color correction. There is a large Trumpet fish, a school of smaller trumpet fish, Blue Staghorn, baby Giant Clam, and a Puffer fish.

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The color corrected version (which im uploading the video for) looks much better but has some artifacts.

Some highlights from today's 100 ft (30 meter) dive. Full video will be uploaded tomorrow, these are screen grabs.

We have an adult puffer fish who swam up to me at the end of the dive. An absolutely massive trumpet fish (there is a whole school of them in the uncut video), some blue staghorn coral, and a baby giant clam.

Here is the link to the dive data for anyone who wants to see the dive profile.

https://connect.garmin.com/modern/activity/8081076444

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The night life in egypt isnt too bad. Cheap but good food and drinks, the stores are ok, mostly inexpensive imitation stuff but good quality imitations.

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