Green Lake o.w.

[Shooter]

When I saw white caps on the duck pond on my way to dive Green, I somewhat anticipated a difficult dive. I had my 1448 jon boat in tow. I was going to try out my new underwater metal detector. It was very windy and rough at the landing. I debated swimming out from shore but did not have floating flag. I assembled my gear and suited up. Decided to take the boat with my trusty dive buddy NEO. I headed to the approx location (3rd party vauge description) and anchored up. I have dove out of my larger boat before so I figured this one wouldld be easier. I leave a rope with a snap on it for my gear and then climb in. No problem, right?

visibility at the surface was 1-2' and pitch black at 20'. After turning on my h.i.d. light i had the 1-2' vis back again ithought I scored an anchor right away but then realized it was dragging past me :o I secured the anchor and started meandering aimlessly hoping that today would be the day. Only thing found was a 6pack of unopened pepsi.  ???

Now back to the task of getting back to the boat. I srfaced only about 40-60 yds away and swam back. I have done this before but only in a wetsuit. my rig now is negative because of the extra 16 pounds of weight. The main problem was that it fits alot tighter that the wetsuit. I also spent 6 hrs on sat chasing my teenage boy and his buddies in combat stressed situations(paintball) through the woods. I am not as flexible today :'( I must be getting old!I start to remove all vital gear that could be lost and try to squirm my way out. Plan b was to swim to shore 150-200yds remove gear swim back to boat. first plan a. I managed to squirm my way out with my left arm. but kept my secondary reg in my mouth. Note to self Disconnect drysuit inflater hose prior to attempting this manuver. I now had my left arm pinned behind myself! :o Did I forget to mention the 3-5' whitecapps? Fortunately my trainning kicked in and I didn't panic. After a minute or 2 I was able to free myself and salvage my gear. I did not get to try out my metal detector. With the extreme conditions I decided not to implement any thing new to my gear configuration.

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