Lake Calhoun

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We dove Calhoun again this week, I may go back again this weekend for another dive.

The vis was not great at first but the we found a sandy bottom area on the south east side of the lake that was a lot nicer.  It is close to where the wind surfers get in and out. 

The vis sucks in there on the east side of the lake near the drop off to 45 feet with all the silt but when we found this area with the sandy bottom in  20-25 feet it was pretty nice with 5-8 feet viz.

Not great like Crosby but 5 hour round trip vs 30 minutes.  I'll work on underwater nav in low viz for the price of a tank of gas...

I took a new diver with who just got his open water training and he had one of those wireless systems.  It looks cool but he had to mess around with it for a while to get it to work.  Sorry but I have enough problems with Blue Tooth and Wifi so there is no way in hell I will trust a wireless setup with my life.

It was fun diving with someone new and telling him the stuff I learned the hard way like it is not a race under water and to just stop and look around. 

One thing that really did strike me as odd is that I just finished up my Nitrox class with PADI at Fantasea and they made me do two dives to make sure I knew what I was doing, knew the gear and how to program my Dive Rite nitek duo.  He told me he just got his PADI and they did not make him do 2 dives.  Is there a new lower standard now for Nitrox Training?